You might be a legalist if….

….all the other churches are messed up except for yours.
….you have a hard time finding other believers with the same level of “conviction” you have.
…you believe breastfeeding, “God’s Way”, is a mandate from heaven.
…you have a checklist of activities that must be fulfilled in order to receive God’s promises.
…you believe the Bible is a guidebook [...]

Learning to live loved

It is both exhilarating and a little sad too when I realize how I find myself needing to learn how to love people.  Kent Burgess shared some wonderful thoughts on his blog and then pointed to a comment by Kirk that really jarred my usual paradigm.
Kirk talks about his encounter with a couple of Mormon [...]

The state of the American Church

Found this little morsel and said WOW.
In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ.  Then the church moved to Greece, where it became a philosophy.  Then it moved to Rome, were it became an institution.  Next it moved to Europe, where it became a culture.  And [...]