When to Bring the Church In
If the church comes last, when exactly does it come? On recognizing the moment a friendship's witness needs the body — and how to make the introduction without breaking either.
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5 essays, newest first.
If the church comes last, when exactly does it come? On recognizing the moment a friendship's witness needs the body — and how to make the introduction without breaking either.
The campaign mindset — targets, scripts, closings — corrupts witness even when it works. On the slower grammar of real conversations, and why efficiency is the wrong measure entirely.
Before the gospel had buildings, it had dinner tables. On hospitality as the ordinary, unscalable, astonishingly effective setting where witness actually happens.
We've made peace with embarrassment as though it were humility. It isn't. On the difference between tact and shame, and how the fear of awkwardness became the American Christian's rule of life.
“I don't know enough” is the most common reason Christians stay silent — and the least biblical. On the difference between a witness and an expert, and why your incompleteness is part of the testimony.