This weekend, we are taking a break from Colossians in the AM to address some issues in church life from Titus 2:1-8. I've entitled the sermon Ecclesiology 101. Ecclesiology is the "study of things pertaining to the church." This passage holds relevant instruction for: why we put such a priority on teaching, how men's and women's ministries should function and what kind of ...

... and culture. We were both struck, though, that the way that this had been presented was in such a way as to basically reduce Ecclesiology to Missiology, or the study of mission or missions. While my own ecclesiological work ... moves toward activity and spirituality. That is to say, it is a primarily theological ecclesiology. The respondent's concern with the use of the tools of the social ...

I was reminded of these videos created as a final project for a course last fall with Ryan Bolger – Church in Contemporary Culture – when someone made a comment on them via YouTube. Watching them again is like reading an old paper or listening to an old sermon, remembering where I was at and what I was reading back then.

What then of the church of Jesus Christ? For Kant, the church as an historical institution is outmoded and obsolete. He conceded that it “did good service” once upon a time, but that that time has surely passed. As a person grows from infancy into adulthood, there are certain things along the way that should be “laid aside” when they are no longer necessary or helpful lest ...

“When the Church takes account of only the present, she does nothing but change; if she looks only to the future, she does nothing but dream; only when she is conscious of being the living tradition of Christ is she truly renewed.” Anthony Burton, former bishop of Saskatchewan Lord, give us eyes to see both what we have been, and what we shall be.

Orthodox: There's only one undivided Church. It's us. It never changes or disagrees, except when it does. Catholic: There's only one undivided Church. It's us. And the Orthodox, who divided from us in 1054. No, really, we're serious. Reformed: There's only one undivided Church BUT IT'S INVISIBLE!!!! Lutheran: There's only one undivided Church. You can ...