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Addictive Effects of Institutional Church: A Discussion
Simple Church is a social networking site to connect with people exploring simple expressions of church. I’ve been following a forum discussion “Detoxing from the Addictive Effects of Institutional Church” started by Erin Wilson. She poses the question: “How do … Continue reading
Find Yourself Needing to “Detox” from Church?
Ever feel a need to “detox” from church? Perhaps your experience with the church is like Gary at “Beyond Black and White”. In a short post,”Detoxing from Church“, he shares about his search for a “suitable” church. Do you identify … Continue reading
“Detoxing” from Traditional Church
Peter over at “The Kings Presence” posts about his journey of “detoxing” from the Traditional Church, and seems to be a promoting “organic” churches. Two resources to learn more about organic churches are given at the end of his post. … Continue reading
A Collapse of American Evangelical Christianity as We Know It?
Russ Crawford, a fellow Jesus follower , coffee drinker, and “1st Gufru” with Gospel Organic in my hometown, shared an article from Michael Spencer in Kentucky titled “The Coming Evangelical Collapse“. Please read it slowly. Don’t rush through this one. … Continue reading
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“Church Addiction”: A Hot Topic
I’m finding a growing amount of stuff on the Net related to being “addicted” to the church. Some good. Some simply weird. This resource falls somewhere in between. Buff Scott, Jr. (columnist-Reformer) sends out a weekly Reformation Ramblings. I’m posting … Continue reading
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More Church “Addicts” Than I Realized
Here we go again. The number of people who consider themselves to be “addicted” to the church is growing daily! Jim Frye over at “Jesus the Radical Pastor” has a great entry titled “A Thought-Provoker: Addicted to “Church”?“. Jim references … Continue reading
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“Detoxing” From the Church?
A blog post came my way by Bill Lollar from his blog site. The post is entitled “Addicted to Church? Detox Can Be Painful.” I think it’s worthy of reading. Bill was a church planting missionary with one of the … Continue reading
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Is The Church an Addictive Organization?
I crossed paths with a thought provoking article by Anne Wilson Schaef, a consultant on addiction problems with Wilson-Schaef Associates in Boulder, CO. She addresses possible addictive behaviors in the church. Read the article here. I post. You decide.
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Coming Clean
I have a confession: I am Mark, a recovering church addict. “What is a church addict?” you ask. It means I was compulsively committed to getting my “fix” in the church by performing religious ritual and rhetoric to gain spirituality, … Continue reading
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