Stuff.

How to Share a Believable Gospel - I really appreciated this blog post from Desiring God. Makes me wish that I could just sit down with some people one-on-one, listen to their stories of joys, pains, and brokenness, and then talk about how Jesus Christ is such Good News for all of us. Maybe I should read his short book, Unbelievable Gospel. "When the gospel is communicated in preachy, impersonal, intolerant, know-it-all ways, people find it hard to believe. Typically, this style of evangelism is reduced to information. We content ourselves with "name-dropping” Jesus or telling people doctrine, but rarely do we draw near enough to people to know how the gospel applies to their actual lives. People want to know why the gospel is worth believing. In the information age, people are used to seeing through words. Most evangelism offers a sound bite gospel, which is easily screened, distrusted, and dismissed. In order for people to see something of substance in our words, our gospel communication needs depth."

King's Cross Church - We're launching at PS 20 in Flushing and having our first service this coming Sunday, October 14th at 11am. Pray for us, the visitors, and the surrounding community. My faith is being stretched. Pray for God to do something awesome in and through this church plant.