Training Church Planters from the Northeast and Canada

Weekend Musings Sunday I leave for Schenectady, NY to train church planters at a conference with Dynamic Church Planting International (DCPI). Usually, I teach the track associated with Churches Planting Churches but this time I will be teaching the Church Planting Essentials track. I’m excited about the opportunity to work with church planters and those … More Training Church Planters from the Northeast and Canada

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Gastfreundschaft: “the freedom of the guest”

Weekend Musings Sometimes a foreign language can illuminate an issue with a clarity that our native language seems tongue-tied about. Reading Bruce Rowlison’s 1981 book on Creative Hospitality I read this: “In the German, the word for hospitality is  Gastfreundschaft  which means ‘the freedom of the guest.’” Henri Nouwen picks up the same idea in some … More Gastfreundschaft: “the freedom of the guest”

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