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Jesus's Uncanny Residence

I want to take a quick break from our current series on why millennials are fleeing the church and reflect on how I experienced God this weekend. My wife and I visited an amazing church in the French Quarter of New Orleans

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Jesus's Uncanny Residence
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If Your Church Closed Its Doors, Would the Neighborhood Care?

I want to talk about why millennials are fleeing the church in droves. But first, let’s circle back around to a question I raised at the end of a blog last week. Regarding discipleship, I said: “I wonder if we’ve elevated certain pet aspects of personal morality over communal and social action.”

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If Your Church Closed Its Doors, Would the Neighborhood Care?
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Impossible Discipleship

One of projects I’m working on is a book about the state of discipleship in the American evangelical church. What is discipleship? Are we making disciples? What is working? What isn’t working? How do we know if it’s working?

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Impossible Discipleship