Be The Fruit

Blog Roundup – Some suggested reading.

by Bill Blair on 01/08/08 at 5:17 am

I had to add Jared Wilson’s blog to the blogroll because I have been reading his stuff ever since William Guice posted his attractional vs. missional chart on his blog here.  This week Jared has expanded on that chart searchwarp.com with two articles this week; Missional and Attractional 1 here, and Missional and Attractional 2 here.

Speaking of attractional models, Dr. Jim West pulls no punches when he states that mega-churches only exist to accumlate wealth.  Read his interesting thoughts here.

William Guice shares some of his heart-felt reflections this week about the huge need for Christians to focus on engaging neighbors, friends, and family as opposed to just going to another “rock-it-out” Sunday service here. 

This week, I wrote about how the “American Dream” can be an idol for many of us, and that it might just be an obstacle to the spreading of the gospel here.  Todd Young had some related thoughts here as he analyzed the “Prosperity Gospel” explaining that the phrase is an oxymoron.

If you read all of the above you might notice a pattern.  Perhaps all of these ideas sort of feed off of each other.  Just thinking…

Finally, today Trevin Wax is supposed to end his 1 month blog sabbatical.  I have to say that I am glad because I can honestly say I missed reading his blog.  He is supposed to be making some sort of announcement today so check it out here.  I am writing this on Thursday night, and I may not get online tomorrow so I won’t be able to update this so you will have to go see it for yourself.