Too Long to Tell
The long-story-made-short version of the past three days- Roller Coaster. Blogging has been minimal since that early post on Wednesday morning. Will fill you in as soon as possible. But in my leap-blogging I have found some stuff that caught my attention.

An Interesting Site
Thanks to Marc at Marc's Messages for leading to the Sheep Comics. I particularly got into this one on worship music.

So Few Apostles
Marc also has a report of a recent trip to Switzerland. It includes these reasons from Wolfgang Simpson on possible reasons why there are so few real apostles being raised today.

1. Many Christians are demonized and thus blocked (not yet released) in their God-given calling and ministry.
2. Many who are called as apostles, are not able or willing to break out of their existing church or ministry bubble.
3. We've lowered our standard compared to what God wants to do. Our mindset is formed by what is humanly possible instead of what is divinely possible.

All About Belonging
Jordon Cooper has posted an excellent summary article on a new book: The Search to Belong: Rethinking Intimacy, Community, and Small Groups by Joseph R. Myers. It has some summaries as well as a good collection of quotes that sure tweaked my curiosity.

In the end Search to Belong blows away conventional thinking about small groups and places where discipleship happens in many churches. It isn't about coming up with better icebreakers, different approaches to coax out answers to quiet people, and how to have small groups divide. It is about better understanding how other people and ourselves interact with each other and what we are looking for.

True Worship
And a thanks to Len at NextReformation.com for this inspired paraphrase of John 4:

"But hey.. I thought you had to worship in church to be a good Christian?"

"No Ma'am. I know that's a popular religious position.. but honestly, here's the truth. In these days it's not important where you worship, or even if you have an order of service.

"In fact a time is coming.. [chuckle] it's already here.. when everyone will worship, whether punks, retros, goths, skaters, baptists, charismatics .. the label won't matter... but who you are and the way you live are what count. Worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth and justice. That's the kind of people the Father is looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before Him in their worship. God is sheer being itself.. Spirit. Those who worship Him must have that same integrity in their spirits and bring all that they are to worship Him."

John 4