Cultural Transformation vs. Living Holy In Sin City
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Cyle Clayton, Missional | 3 Comments »Las Vegas and ancient Corinth are a lot alike: cities built on the commerce of pleasure. Corinth, the headquarters of the Aphrodite cult, was said to have had 1,000 temple prostitutes available for her worshipers. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out ...
Reflecting On Bridges
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, Cyle Clayton | 2 Comments »I was scheduled to post today and originally wrote an article entitled, Blogging And The Negative Perception Of Church, questioning if the often rancorous discussion on religious blogs has contributed to the negative preception of the church by the unchurched. ...
Which Candidate Would You Let Speak In Your Church?
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Church, Current Events, Cyle Clayton | 11 Comments »W.W.J.D. is not new enough to be hot and not old enough to be retro. So, instead of asking who Jesus would vote for, I'll ask who you think the apostles would have endorsed? Who would have been invited to ...
Painting By The Numbers: Should Statistics Shape Ministry?
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Church, Culture, Cyle Clayton, SBC Issues | 16 Comments »I paint, not well, but I paint. Some people were over at the house for a Christmas party and three of them were admiring one of my better works. Most of what I paint, I hide, but I liked this ...
Keeping The ‘Mas’ In Christmas
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007 Posted in Cyle Clayton, Devotions | 10 Comments »Well, I drew the lot of posting on Christmas day. Most computers will be silent, and that's not bad. My readers will probably be few, and that isn't bad, either. There are more important things today than reading my blog, ...
A Missional Epiphany
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 Posted in Church Life, Cyle Clayton, Evangelism, Pastoral Issues | 7 Comments »We live in west central Louisiana, bordering Texas, alongside Toledo Bend Lake. The lake is a 70 mile long portion of the Sabine River that separates Texas and Louisiana. Every square inch of developable shoreline has houses ...
Sanctify Sunday Again
Thursday, November 29th, 2007 Posted in Church, Cyle Clayton | 35 Comments »"I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, as of a trumpet," (Revelation 1:10 ' NKJV) Could it be that unregenerate America' ambivalence toward and confusion about Christianity is related to ...
The Executive Study: The Tragedy Of The Professional Pastorate
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Cyle Clayton, Pastoral Issues | 18 Comments »"We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry. The mentality of the professional is not the mentality of the prophet. It is not the mentality of the slave of Christ. Professionalism has nothing to do with ...
Congregational Integrity And Transfer Of Membership
Sunday, November 4th, 2007 Posted in Church Life, Church Membership, Cyle Clayton | 25 Comments »SBC pastors and staff rarely, if ever, contact the pastor of the previous church when someone joins their own church. I have been the pastor of a SBC church for thirteen years, and have never once been called by the ...
When Sex Offenders Come To Church
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Church, Culture, Cyle Clayton | 18 Comments »The following scenario is pieced together from conversations with many different church leaders and with published reports from evangelical churches. It, and stories like it, are occurring with increasing frequency. If you haven't faced it yet, you will. John and his wife ...
