Senior Pastor of Grace Community Church of Seal Beach
Terrific game last night. If you haven’t heard about what happened (including back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs for the Dodgers in the 9th to send it to extra innings), check out espn.com or dodgerthoughts.com. Great stuff. I wish I had a YouTube video to link to…
Update: YouTube is a sign of God’s grace.
I have enjoyed this book immensely. Maybe because I’m a nuts and bolts guy. Frazee (when he wrote the book) was the teaching pastor at Pantego Bible Church in Texas (he’s now at Willow Creek). The book is the ministry philosophy they implemented there.
His broad concept is that Christians should have a common purpose, a common place, and common possessions. The common purpose is standard stuff, with acronyms and the whole thing. Definately necessary, but nothing groundbreaking.
What I really enjoyed was his section on the “Common Place.” He suggests that it is more important for the Christian life to be engaged in a community home group with people who live within a block or two than to be in a home with those in your age group who live all over the place. Interesting idea…
Anyway, great book, highly recommended.
Wow, that sounds self-important. Hopefully it will make you laugh.
Just found out I’ll be preaching at Grace on 10/29 in all three services. The text will be Luke 19:11-27. Every other time I’ve preached at a church it’s been in a pulpit supply role, so it will be interesting having to speak and then see the same people next week.
I’m going to start with self-disclosure: I am a commitment-phobe when it comes to blogging. I’ve done xanga, blogspot, and now I’m at wordpress. “This time it’s going to be different.” We’ll see…
Bob Wriedt 