Overcoming the Beautiful Myth

I’m at Georgetown College in Kentucky, today, meeting with a group of pastors to talk about practices to grow congregations and ministry. I do that kind of thing a lot. What’s different this time is that Georgetown is a Baptist College. So you might wonder why I was invited. Well, because Georgetown in a Baptist College that has, over the years, come to partner with Episcopalians and members of the Disciples of Christ and Methodists and other traditions in the Lexington area. And when one of the Baptist professors at Georgetown asked one of his Episcopal colleagues whom her community would like to hear from, she suggested me. I’m here,...

Mark 9:38-41

John said to him, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not...