Tag: church

• TRIPPING ON POWER

  The feature article in this months CT (Christianity Today) is about pastoral power in the local church.  The author, Andy Crouch, does a very fine job of discussing the differences and similarities between high power churches (think Roman Catholic or megachurches) and low power churches (think Quaker, congregational Baptists) and how power is neutral–it can…

  Jamie Greening

  October 14, 2013

  All, Church, Culture

  abuse of power, Christinaity Today, church, hidden power, pastor, pastoral ministries, polity, power

• HE HAD ME AT HELLO

  It is one of those movie lines that seems to express so much.  The ingenue Renee Zellweger is so impressed by the dashing hero Tom Cruise that she completely ignores all of his wordy speech and informs him he doesn’t really need to say anything else.  She is already smitten. “You had me at hello”…

  Jamie Greening

  October 7, 2013

  All, Bible, Church, Movies, Preaching

  church, Jerry Maguire, Jesus, preaching, Southern Baptists, The Baptist Faith and Message, the Bible

• PARTING IS SUCH SWEET SORROW

  Tomorrow they are turning off the cable, which means I will have no internet, and the day after that I’ll be on the road to our new house so it will be a while before I can blog again, so I jolly well better do it now. I have been intending to write for the…

  Jamie Greening

  July 23, 2013

  Church, Writing

  church, Jesus, pastor, pastoral resignation, resign

• I DID A VERY, VERY, VERY HARD THING YESTERDAY

  

  As I posted on Twitter and Facebook, yesterday after worship service I resigned from First Baptist Church.  There are many reasons for this, and I will blog about it coming up in the future.  For now, let me just say that it was one of the hardest–definitely in the top 5 hardest things I’ve ever…

  Jamie Greening

  July 8, 2013

  All, Church, Preaching

  church, pastoral resignation, resign, resignation, resignation letter