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Ministry is my lifestyle and narrative theology is my passion. My activities include leadership, culture and urban adventure. At this crossing in life, I am immersing myself into what it is to live out Christ. Everything else in life flows out of this.

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07.12.08 Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

Pagan Christianity offers up many exciting thoughts on what it means to be an organic church but at the same time, the book is somewhat discouraging. While I believe Frank Viola is dead on, at least close, about the history of our Church practices and their pagan roots, I have to sit back and sort through what seems to be a very useful work written in a spirit of anger. I personally do not believe the book was written in a spirit of anger but unfortunately this is the way that it comes across.

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10.10.07 Organic Community: Creating a place where people naturally connect.

Joseph Myers argues organic order leads to sustainability in his book Organic Community. The premise of the book is “creating a place where people naturally connect.” Myers argues that organic community creates these spaces better than master planning. He compellingly advocates moving from a programmer mentality to an environmentalist mentality in order to create healthy community.

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