Category Archives: Evangelism

(Not so) Simple Church

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I read Thom Rainer’s Simple Church a few months ago. I liked his proposal of having a clear, simple model of making disciples that was shared by the whole congregation (“congregation” is that a Baptist like Rainer means by “church”) … Continue reading →

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Relevant or Dissonant

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I’m better at asking questions than I am answering them. Today’s poll at Christianity Today asks us to decide whether the church is doing its job when it’s (a) culturally relevant or (b) culturally dissonant. My answer is, “Yes.” We … Continue reading →

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Reading Tribal Church

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

I just finished reading Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation by Carol Howard Merritt, the book we’re supposed to be reading for our next monthly district clergy gathering. The book’s points can be summed up fairly briefly: Young people … Continue reading →

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Stuck

Posted on March 31, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

Sometimes we get stuck. While getting stuck is commonly taken to be a bad thing, it depends on where we’re stuck or what we’re stuck in. Perhaps you’re stuck in a family that keeps on loving you even when you … Continue reading →

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Discipleship Goals #5

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

Evangelism, the apparent traditional equivalent of what we now call “Radical Hospitality” closes out this series on the characteristics we try to build into the lives of disciples in our work of disciple making. This equation may be my least … Continue reading →

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A New Gospel Illustration

Posted on January 21, 2009 by Richard Heyduck

James Choung has developed a new way to illustrate the Gospel. My first take on it is that it is much more biblical than many of the other simplified models out there (remembering that it’s easy to have complicated biblical … Continue reading →

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Would He Like Me?

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

Would Tony Morgan like me?

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Some Thoughts on Confirmation

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

One of the common features of confirmation classes is to have the confirmands produce a creed – a statement of belief. After going through several weeks – or months – of study, they write a Credo. I have seen other … Continue reading →

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“That’s nice, preacher”

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

I’m a knowledge and information junkie. I read piles of books. If I had the time and money I’d go to a ministry conference every month. I used to go to more conferences and read more ministry books, but I’ve … Continue reading →

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Stress and Conversion

Posted on April 28, 2008 by Richard Heyduck

My brother has been blogging about conversion lately. Today he posted on conversion and stress. Here are my initial thoughts: Part of the difficulty is assuming we know what we’re talking about, when what we have are, in fact, abstractions. … Continue reading →

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