September '03 Issue...
by Jason Evans
A lot has changed this month. We've had a face lift and we've added some other features. Book, music and film reviews are just the first addition.
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Can I Get A Witness
by John Wallis
The first time anyone "witnessed" to me directly was in a bar with both of us so drunk we couldn’t sit up straight. It was comical being told about a book called "More Than a Carpenter" by a man more drunk than I was.
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A Vehicle of Transformation
by Alan Creech
OK, these crazy new church planters plant these "churches" and 6 months later, someone asks them the inevitable question, "how's your church going?" Meaning, most often, "how many people do you have?" We are then faced with a challenge - a challenge to our definition of success.
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The Accidental Evangelist
by Craig Pelkey-Landes
My theological tribe, the Mennonites, tend to really link service and evangelism, but if anything we are heavy on the service and lite on the evangelism. So it seems almost accidental that I’m so into evangelism.
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Is a Partial Gospel Really Good News?
by Joel McClure
From what he wrote in his letters and from what Luke records of his activities, it is quite probable that Paul would take issue with the presentation of today’s version of ‘good news.’ What might Paul of Tarsus say is wrong with ‘evangelism’ in its early 21st century American ‘evangelical’ incarnation?
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Trading Sunday Clothes 4 Community
by Peydria Higgins
Last month, Rudy Carrasco shared some thoughts on the community he's been leading. This month, one of the members of that group weighs in with her thoughts on what it means to be a part of Northwest Fellowship.
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also in this issue...
5 Simple Steps to Professional Suicide by Tom Blaylock
Sermon Struggles by Tom Smith
Exploring The "New" Evangelistic... by Charlie Wear
Culturally Relevant Ministry... by Dr. Ed Stetzer
Western As Personal Apocalypse by Marc T. Newman
Meeting Brad Almighty by Andrew Hamilton
Shall We Dance?
Do not read this book if you are looking for new ways to do "outreach" to pomo types. If new methods are what you are looking for I'd recommend looking elsewhere.
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Culturally Relevant Ministry...
Dr. Ed Stetzer, adapts a chapter from his book, Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, in this month's issue.
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Green Like Envy
Andrew Careaga reviews Donald Miller's book Blue Like Jazz.
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Music Review: Over The Rhine, Ohio
Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler opted for the double album rather than submit themselves to an unnatural process of cutting songs to fit into a neat commercial package. It’s an interesting move for a relatively unknown group, but definitely the right one.
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Western As Personal Apocalypse
The good hero may be reluctant, flawed, or a little complicated, but the evil villain is simply, thoroughly, and completely bad. The hero may represent fallen humanity in its struggle, but the bad guy is inevitably the devil incarnate. The working out of the conflict is the Apocalypse in microcosm.
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