Mosaic Church Of Bellingham

Early this morning, just before I woke up, I had a dream that I was invited to speak down in Chile, in one of the large cities. There were a number of venues set up, but the first one was a large auditorium with split seating and a large floor in between. So I was walking back and forth between these two seating areas, talking to the groups. The venue was also very open to a busy urban street. Part way through my talk, which was about community, the street started to come alive with loud latin music. As the music kept ramping up, more and more people kept filling the street for this big dance party. It was quite organized and would have been fun to watch had I not been trying to speak to this group. Inside the building a similar thing was also happening to the crowd I was speaking too. A little at a time, then more and more, started heading outside to the dance party. I remember remarking that they were really good dancers! I mean it, they knew how to dance! Outside there was this kind of organized da

In the incredible novel, "Three Cups of Tea", climber, Greg Mortenson, who after a failed attempt to climb K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, gets separated from his team and lost in the mountainous Karakoram region of Pakistan, eventually wanders into the remote village of Korphe, where he receives help from the people and meets the village chief, Haji Ali.  Mortensen learns some incredible lessons from these people, even though he does not speak their language or understand their customs. After watching some children try to learn to read, by using a stick in the dirt on the ground, he decides that he is going to thank these people for saving his life and welcoming him into their village by building them a school, which he eventually does. One of the lessons become the title of the book. The chief, Haji Ali, teaches Mortensen... “The first time you share tea with a Balti, you are a stranger. The second time you take tea, you are an honored guest. The third time you share a cup of tea, you become

I want you to imagine something before you listen to this. It’s not going to be easy, but I want us to give it a try. I want you to imagine that we are sitting down with someone, whom we have just met, who is a devoted follower of Jesus. We, on the other hand, know nothing of this faith, its history, its premises, its writings or its traditions. Nothing. We are completely clueless. Imagine, as a result of this unknowing, that you know nothing about the Bible. You don’t know that many people in this faith believe it is inspired by their God. You don’t know that many take it very literally and consider it an accurate historical document, that tells us how the world was created, how all plant and animal life came into being, how humans came into being, how the various languages of the world started, etc… You don’t know any of this. You don’t know that there are two main parts of the Bible, an older part that was written by Jewish people and for Jewish people, to chronicle the history of their tribe (Israel

Our good friend from The Table, Aaron Walters, shares his heart about the church and what originally characterized it.

It was an interesting week in the evangelical world. Author, speaker, Bible translator, Eugene Peterson, was taken to task because of a response he gave to an impromptu question. He later retracted his answer, but it raises some interesting questions... "What is and isn't still working with the church in North America." Listen in, it was a great discussion.