March 24, 2009 by Bob Evans
Political commentator Fred Barnes writing in the Wall Street Journal:
In 2007, my wife Barbara and I left The Falls Church, which we had happily attended from the time we became Christians a quarter-century ago. It’s a 277-year-old church in northern Virginia well-known for its popular preacher, the Rev. John Yates, its adherence to traditional biblical teachings and its withdrawal in 2005 from the national Episcopal church. Our three grown daughters and their families stayed behind at The Falls Church.
We didn’t leave in anger. We didn’t have political or theological anxieties. Rather, we left for a new church because our old church wanted us to. The Falls Church has become entrepreneurial as well as evangelical. It’s in the church-planting business. And we were encouraged by Mr. Yates to join Christ the King, the church “planted” near our home in Alexandria. We were a bit ambivalent about the move, but when Christ the King opened its doors in September 2007, we were there.
Read the whole thing
From “Between Two Worlds”
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March 10, 2009 by Bob Evans
Check out Michael Spenser’s (The internet Monk) linked-up take on recent evidence of the decline of American Christianity here. His summation and prescription is compelling.
If you are an evangelical and you aren’t enthusiastically supporting innovative, cross cultural, missional church planting, you might want to go pre-plan the funeral. The future isn’t the megachurch. The future is ACTS 29.
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October 16, 2008 by Bob Evans
Its been a long time since I’ve listened to an entire album… Andrew Petersen has just released a collection of tunes called “Resurrection Letters Vol. II” that’s worth listening to from front to back. You can hear it streamed (for free!) here. Do it. I mean it
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October 10, 2008 by Bob Evans
This cat played at New Song last night…you missed a great night! the best acoustic guitar player I’ve ever heard.
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September 8, 2008 by Bob Evans
from a Friend of Ian Morgan Cron…
Ian Morgan Cron
“I always recommend to people that they follow the Ignatian principle.
Regardless of what is sensible, and regardless of what you think you
“ought” to do, which of the courses ahead of you makes you feel alive,
makes your heart open wider, makes you feel hopeful and as if the future is
opening up not closing down? That is the route you should go.”
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