In the last few years the words “Purpose Driven” have become a slogan or catch phrase for many church congregations.  There has developed in our nation purpose driven churches, purpose driven lives, days, weeks and months of purpose.  Individuals and congregations have been consumed by “purpose.”  Does the Church have purpose?  Absolutely!  Is the Church to be driven?  Not scripturally.  Is this merely semantics or is it a subtle deception?  Let’s compare the “purpose driven church” to the “Spirit led church” in the book of Acts.  more here...

As I sat there watching a video of one of our General Conference services in Toronto, I was taken back by the wonderful singing and exhortations to praise the Lord by some of our precious Pentecostal leaders. It was all so familiar to me of course it should be, I have been a part of this organization of Pentecostal preachers for over twenty-two years. The thought came to me that some of our mannerism, while completely understood among our own rank and file, could be viewed as very dated and maybe even obscure by those looking from the outside in. While the world around us races ahead in progress and change, there appears to be a growing gap between the past and present that cries for change in all of us to accommodate the need for ministry to the world of this present day...   more here...