loyal radicals…
A Presbyterian pastor with emergent sensibilities. I'm an improviser and a sports fan. I just started serving Lafayette Ave Presbyterian Church in the Elmwood Village area of Buffalo.
First, the background. My congregation is more “traditional presbyterian” in appearance, but I think emerging church terms. Thankfully, a new church is emerging from the existing body.
In the meantime, some of the former habits are still around. One of them is the “children’s sermon” and children’s worship (separate from the whole community). More and more [...]
I’m blogging from the conference. There may be some other presbymergents here, I don’t know. Posts at elmwoodjesus.org.
It’s that time of year in Presbyterian land. In emergent land (and in the way I think about things), stewardship, not just of money, but of everything, is an every day thing. Actually, this is a rather Presbyterian way of doing things, too, but many Presbyterian Churches have a time once a year [...]
Now, I don’t know how many of us have to act as a head of a staff, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on it. Management is not why I became a Pastor, and it doesn’t really resonate with my emergent sensibilities, but it IS part of what I do, and I am trying [...]
Here I am at my first call as a solo Pastor.
Just over two weeks ago I started at a GREAT church in Buffalo.
We’re not emergent in any way that most people recognize as emergent. Actually, our demographics would suggest that we are de-mergent, which is to say, dying away (as you will see later, [...]
Jan Edminson listed the following four “discoveries” that she made with the emerging church:
The pastor’s only responsibility, according to scripture, is to equip the saints for God’s service (Ephesians 4:11-12).
The church exists to serve the community not its members.
The role of Presbyterian elders is to be spiritual leaders, not to run the programs of the [...]
