Church, Politics, and Non-Profits

Christians have a long history of involvement in politics in democratic societies, including the Abolitionist movement with Wilberforce and Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Progressive movement with WIlliams Jenning Bryan and Jacob Riis (How the Other Half Lives), the Civil Rights movement, and the pro-life movement, all associated strongly with churches, along with other movements that perhaps look more misguided, such as the Prohibitionist movement and the Free Silver movement. Should we avoid politics today as Christians? What role should City Reformed have? 
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Thoughts on Jubilee

I attended the Jubilee conference in downtown Pittsburgh last Friday night, as a guest. Overall, I thought it was a great time to get all these college students together to get them thinking about culture and God’s calling in their lives, and worshipping together.

I want to respond to some comments made by the keynote speaker for the night, Gabe Lyons, who is apparently making a name for himself as someone who is applying marketing research and strategy to the church. Overall, I could relate to where he was coming from, and appreciated his zeal for the kingdom, but I see some dangers in how it was expressed. Read more…

The Importance of Communication

As our church has grown you might have noticed that we have had to become more intentional in our methods of communication. When we were a church of 60 people, most announcements could be made informally because everyone knew each other. As we have grown we have had to be more intentional with our communication. We have done this so that we can be as faithful as possible to our call to love and serve God and bring his love to Oakland.

Our hope is that this blog will help us more effectively communicate whats going on at our church. Leaders from City Reformed will use this blog as a space to communicate upcoming events, explain why we are doing things the way we are doing them, and keep people updated on general information about City Reformed.

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