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I had an email recently sent to me that was signed, "a recovering Pharisee dextoxing from all my good works." That got my attention! That's what most of us have been! We've been listening to everybody's opinion but God's and what ends up happening is, we do the...
Reminder of Our Future
We had one goal in mind when we launched Origin Church....to create simple steps and inviting environments of excellence where unchurched, disconnected, and far from God people would want to come, and come back. It's working so far! Believers are certainly welcome,...
New Churches
We've got good friends in an Atlanta suburb with a two year old new church plant. His statement to me is that when they planted, they were the only ones using road signs to let people know they were there. Now, 8 more churches have planted and do the same thing on...
Disconnect
One thing that is very clear in a new church is indefinite period of the feeling of "disconnect." It's a "blind-date" kind of feeling; nobody knows each other. Well, that's true but T.I.M.E. will take care of that. Stay faithful, feel the rhythm of the vision,...
Beliefs
We're occasionally asked what we believe at Origin Church.......that's easy, ALL of the Bible, as best we can understand it! Make sense?
Shame on Us Leaders
I sat in a meeting this week listening to top shelf Christian businessmen explain the fact that we are under utilizing our lay leaders in our churches. Here are guys who own companies, move large dollars around the world who have extreme gifts, extreme abilities,...
New Traditional Music
Tony Morgan had some great insight along the line of what our new tradition in church music is becoming. Hymns used to be the tradition; now it's rock and pop in our new churches; However, according to itunes, 1 in 3 of the top 100 songs in the country is either: 1....
The Fake Church
We have had so many great churches through the years, but I believe, more authentic ones, now, than ever before. Out of the Bible belt, people come as they are....in the Bible belt people come as they are expected to be. That results in a fake environment, people...
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