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Built to fail

Posted on November 27, 2015 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Fail

The church is not an organization that is built to eventually fail. In fact, when Jesus gave us our mission of making disciples, he also told us that he would be with us as we do it. Jesus began it, Jesus sustains it, and Jesus will complete what he started.

Filed Under: Bible Reflection Tagged With: building, Church, fail, failure, institution

On megachurch pastors and failure

Posted on August 12, 2014 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Mars Hill Church

The problem I see in society is that we have a celebrity culture which ascribes superhuman status to the lucky (or unlucky depending on your perspective) few who have been deemed celebrities. Celebrities can do no wrong and they always seem to get the benefit of the doubt.

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: Church, failure, leadership, megachurch, pastor

Failure: The Unintended Consequence of Success

Posted on July 30, 2014 Written by Todd Pylant 1 Comment

Success & Failure

This is a guest post by Todd Pylant whose biographical information appears in the author box below this post. If you would like to provide a guest post to Attempts at Honesty, please see the guest post guidelines and contact me if you are interested in providing a post. The writer of Hebrews demonstrated faith […]

Filed Under: Bible Reflection, Guest Post Tagged With: failure, Gideon, success

Dealing with apparent failure in apologetics

Posted on November 9, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 5 Comments

Watering Can

If some could witness the miracles of Jesus and remain unconvinced and unconverted, we would be foolish to think that everyone will respond to our presentation and defense of the Gospel. The will overrides the intellect when dealing with matters of faith and world view. If the lack of response is an indication of failure, it is a failure that Jesus also experienced.

Filed Under: Apologetics Tagged With: apologetics, defense, failure, miracle

Responding to the Dinesh D’Souza controversy – 4 things to keep in mind

Posted on October 19, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Dinesh D’Souza has been in the news recently. He is accused of improprieties. How should the church evaluate and respond to these accusations?

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: D'Souza, Dinesh, failure, King's College, repentance, restoration

A failure to launch: 5 failures to avoid in implementing strategy

Posted on September 17, 2012 Written by Mark McIntyre Leave a Comment

Rocket Launch

Good strategy can be thwarted by bad implementation. In this, the church fares no better than business. What should leaders consider as they present changes to the organization.

Filed Under: Church Leadership Tagged With: failure, implement, implementation, strategy

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Plummer on Miracles

If He was not supernatural, then difficulty arises. But in that case we tear up the New Testament, and the history of the Christian Church becomes inexplicable.

On the value of good preaching

We should expect our preacher to communicate to himself and to us the diagnosis that God makes upon our condition and the corrective action that God prescribes. We don’t need or want the preacher to interfere with this process by filtering out the inconvenient or disturbing bits.

Come Home – A Poem

I strain to hear that voice
“come back”
longing for the day I hear
“come home”

A Celebration of Death? – Response to the Death of Osama Bin Laden

The announcement of the death of Osama Bin Laden reminded me of a post originally published in February of this year. I have taken the text from that post and added additional comments below. February 2, 2011: As we toured the Colosseum  in Rome, the guide  described the events that were staged in that structure […]

On those who have walked away

Honesty demands that we admit our struggles to work out our faith. Real faith is at times a gritty mess and we all face difficult times. My experience is that God remains faithful even when we are faithless, as Paul tells us in 2 Timothy 2:13. Feeling doubt and even expressing doubt does not automatically disqualify someone from being relationship with God.

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