#1: Barry Steinman's Blog
09/21/09
House Church Panel at Religion Newswriters Convention
On September 11th I was asked to speak at the Religion News writers
Association annual convention in Minneapolis.
I was part of a panel called:
"House churches and Jew-it-yourself services"
The Moderator was Cathy Grossman, from USA TODAY
08/25/09
Who Am I?
Barry says he never appreciated his Jewish heritage until he came to see Jesus as his Messiah during the Jesus Movement in 1970. He was introduced early on to alternative expressions of church life by spending the next eight years in a Christian Commune. One hundred and twenty people lived as family, sharing expenses on a beautiful eighty acre farm. It was there he learned that Church should be family. The meetings were open. Everyone was free to participate as they shared something God had placed on their hearts. The group also celebrated the Old Testament Festivals such as Passover and Tabernacles.
07/02/09
Focus on the Family House Church Interview
I just ran across the interview I did with Focus on the Family, Family News in Focus, on the subject of House Church. It is from 6/24-25/2006.
You can listen to it here
http://koinonia.org.il/2%20Audio%20Track.aiff
11:07:19 am, Categories: Why I House Church Why I House Church. Tired of staring at back of a head.
Staring at the back of someone's head for 90 minutes on a Sunday morning is not my idea of fun. I do not understand how staring at the back on someone's head has anything to do with fellowship.
05/30/07
Are our circumstances good or evil
Have you ever felt like ripping this passage out of the bible: "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28 When horrible things are happening to me, how can that be good
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#2: Theology of Everyday Life
The "Unjust" Manager, Part 2
The NIV shrewdly renders "unjust" or "corrupt" as "shrewd" when it speaks of the manager. According to that translation, his response is clever or innovative from a business viewpoint.
Hmm. I don't think so. The Message, at least, has the honesty to call him a "crooked" manager. Much closer, this.
The "Unjust" Manager, Part 1
So what is it about the Ordinary that is the context for understanding God's coming rule? Why does Jesus persistently choose not to find God's ways inside religious contexts, instead finding them in the Ordinary?
The Parables and the Context of the Kingdom
The context of the kingdom is everyday life. You can tell this from the parables, though we seldom pay attention to them this way.
. . . And Everyday Life Intrudes
Of course the basic problem we all have with everyday life is that there is so much of it. My experiment in blogging is a prime example.
Deconstructing the context
An article about Rathergate in Friday's Wall Street Journal pointed out that the sea-change happening in journalism today is disturbing the traditional media's monopoly of news _context_ as well as content.
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