IntenseDebate - K. Rex Butts

12 years ago @ Church and Culture - Church & Culture Blog ... · 1 reply · 0 points

"By the second century, many Christians were serving in the Roman army, some as high-ranking officers."

I would love to see some evidence of that claim cited, especially for the use of the nebulous word "many".

13 years ago @ My Blog - Video: My Story · 0 replies · +1 points

Ryan and Jessica,

Thank you so much for allowing God to tell his story through the two of you. Your faith, your courage, and your hope along with the humility is takes to be vulnerable enough to let God openly become the star of your story so that it becomes his story....well, that is encouraging and inspiring. The question, "what sort of story will we allow God to tell through us?" is percolating in my mind right now.

Grace and Peace,

Rex

13 years ago @ My Blog - VIDEO: Sifting at Expo... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thank you so much for your witness, your faith and hope, for allowing God to tell his beautiful story through you as well as your wife and children.

14 years ago @ Exploring Choice and F... - Hope in the Face of Ne... · 0 replies · +1 points

Ryan, I am sorry. At the same time, I am so thankful for the witness your are bearing which is giving a picture of what hope in the midst of suffering looks like. Thank you for your faithfulness. You and your wife are in my prayers and the prayers of the Columbia Church of Christ.

14 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - For All the Big Dreame... · 0 replies · +1 points

David,

You are right about the temptation. I know of many pastors, myself included, who freely acknowledge the temptation. That is why I am always in admiration for my friend and brother in Christ, Ricardo, a Brazilian native who serves as a church-planter/pastor in Brazil and receives no celebrity fan-fare but knows his "reward is great in heaven."

Grace and Peace,

Rex

14 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - For All the Big Dreame... · 0 replies · +1 points

If the goal is simply to become educated, write a book, and become a popular national/international speaker at conferences...it is little wonder why the church in North America seems so anemic. Further more, if this is a person's goal, I might even need to question their perceived calling. God calls leaders to his mission for his mission and not what seems to be increasingly becoming a Christian celebrity list. If a leader finds him or herself in the later it should only be because they are truly serving in the former.

Grace and Peace,

Rex

15 years ago @ Reclaiming the Mission - The Video Venue Farce:... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why does this approach to "mega-church" arise in the land of consumerism and capitalism where enterprising and franchising is the way of business? What concerns me is the apparent "cloning" of the parent-church/epicenter of the multi-sight. Indigenous church planting is not the same as cloning and that is what concerns me...is multi-sight really just another way to establish top-down control from human pastor and/or human oversight committee?

Grace and peace,

Rex

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