Another positive thing about being in simple/organic expressions of church life was the giving. Why? Well simple, we didn’t give to the “church”. You may say “whats good about that” or “well you guys weren’t giving” which are necessary questions. Yes we gave. But we gave to people or to specific organizations that the...

1. Rented Facility: Instead of owning a parcel of land, we rent a recreation center or do an annual sublease through a church that does own land. We could meet in this rented location for a year. Our small groups would meet in homes. We would equip them to make disciples in their own neighborhoods but we meet collectively every Sunday in a place where we could have...

I don’t know how I forgot this and how you guys allowed me to without eating my lunch. However, World Missions has to be a foundational core value. Actually over and beyond anything else on the my list. Here my friends is where I find my greatest problem with African American Urban Churches. I absolutely refuse tosubmit to leadership that has no global vision...

Well since I have decided to go a new direction and pursue a more traditional church setting, I now have the very difficult task of searching for a church home (a group of believers to live life with larger than the current folks who are the greatest). The biggest problem is I have specific convictions that are important to me. These convictions would prevent me...

Over the last two plus years, I have been on a quest to find the perfect church. I had these strict demands and I wasn’t going to quit until these demands were met. I had an ideal vision of what church should look like and I wanted that ideal to become a reality. And I did this at all cost. No matter who I alienated, no matter who I offended, no matter what...

If you have followed my writing long enough, you will find that I occasionally… okay…. frequently change my mind. Always remember I never have bad intentions. So I will be going in a different direction or acutally an old direction for those who followed Black and Reformed or Better Covenant or many of the other names. This is one of the reasons I have...