Wayward Son

Musician. Composer. Recovering perfectionist. Minister-in-transition. Lover of puns. Hijacker of rock song references. Questioner of the status quo. I'm not really a rebel. Just a sincere Christ-follower with a thirst for significance that gets me into trouble. My quest has taken me over the fence of institutional Christianity. Here are some of my random thoughts along the way. Read along, join in the conversation. Just be nice.

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No, We Didn’t Buy Vodka For Our Underage Teen During Spring Break…Well, We Did, But Not the Way You Think

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Categories: What the heck was THAT?

So like I said before…today The Director began a three-day film shoot, and once again we are all involved. The Wild One is doing the lighting, and I’m doing the sound. This time The Director has trained two of his friends to run the camera, so he’s free to focus on the monitor. Three of his cast members are in high school, and it’s spring break, so it’s perfect timing for them.

The script involves the consumption of alcohol (the cast members are playing slightly older people), so we needed a bottle of liquor for the film–not for drinking, but for pouring. The cast will drink flat soda made to look like liquor.

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Quiet on the Set

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Categories: random stuff, The Director

Guess where I am blogging from….

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Wrong.

I am typing this between takes on a movie set. Impressed?

The Director began shooting today on a new short film. We are spending the next three days shooting at a local nightclub. It’s closed during the day, and they’re letting us use it for free. And it’s a great backdrop for the content of the script.

No, I’m not going to tell you.

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How to Be an Emergent PoMo Pastor-Leader Person

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Categories: fun, What the heck was THAT?

***WARNING: EXTREME TONGUE-IN-CHEEK ALERT***

So for the past couple of years, I’ve been learning a lot about postmodernism, and how it’s affecting our culture, especially with upcoming generations. Alongside that, I’ve been learning a lot about what’s being called the “emergent church”, which many times amounts to “church for postmoderns” (PoMos) because its next-generation approach speaks largely to the PoMo worldview.

I’m not just a student of information, but also a student of human nature, so this stuff intrigues me.

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Small World (The True Story of How I Learned that John the Baptist Used the King James Version)

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Categories: fun, random stuff, What the heck was THAT?

A number of years ago, when I was young(er)…I was volunteering as a worship leader for a youth group in a large Assembly of God church in Cincinnati. One day, the youth pastor and I were bumming around in his office. He started digging through his desk looking for something, and pulled out a cassette tape he didn’t recognize. The words “Hymns My Mother Never Sang” was handwritten on it. So we popped the cassette into the player and started listening.

About a half hour later, our stomachs were sore from laughing so hard.

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Tying Up Loose Ends–Some Closing (and Possibly Quite Random) Thoughts on Leadership

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

Links to previous posts here, here, and here.

As we’ve been discussing church leadership this week in general, and the clergy-laity thing in particular…I’ve expressed a lot of thoughts about what leadership in the church should not look like. I’ve offered the opinion that despite the abuses we’ve seen, human leadership is still Biblical–but I haven’t given much detail as to how such a thing is fleshed out. And I guess primarily that’s because I haven’t got a stinking clue because this is still formulating in my own heart as I’m in the beginning stages of re-learning.

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Why We Should Sort of Take It Easy on the Pastors

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Categories: changing mindsets, food for thought, Rantings

For the past few days I’ve been pondering the whole clergy-laity thing, and the idea of leadership within the context of the institutional church. A couple of days ago, I invited the readers to discuss whether human church leadership is Biblical–and there was a lot of very helpful input and insight left in the comments (thanks!). Yesterday, I weighed in on the conversation in this separate post.

Today, because I think/hope it will lend perspective…I have some thoughts about the abuse of authority in the church–from the leaders’ standpoint.

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The Question of Leadership in the Church

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Categories: food for thought, theological questions

In one of yesterday’s two posts, I posed a question:

“Do you believe that human leadership in the church is Biblical? Or is Jesus our only Shepherd? Why? or Why not?”

Thanks to those of you who were brave enough to respond. 🙂 I’d like to offer my thoughts here–and actually, this will likely take more than one post, possibly as many as three. In this post, I’ll share my opinion about Biblical leadership in general. In the next, I will share some thoughts about the abuse of power among church leaders–from the perspective of a leader.

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This is a Bit Sobering

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Categories: current issues, food for thought

I know I just posted something (and please comment on the discussion question)…but I’ve been hearing about this news item all day concerning the increased number of people in America now claiming “no religion”…so I went and found this article from CNN.com.

Of particular interest to me is the following quote from the article:

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Okay, Kids…It’s Discussion Time!!!

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Categories: food for thought, theological questions

Here’s a question for us to discuss:

With all the stories we can recount of how various church leaders have been corrupt, controlling, dishonest, and considering all the people who have been wounded by such leaders…

Do you believe that human leadership in the church is Biblical? Or is Jesus our only Shepherd? Why? or Why not?

Say your piece, but be nice. 🙂

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…Oh, c’mon, you have to have an opinion on this. Don’t keep us waiting…

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For Your Enjoyment…U2 Does Letterman’s Top Ten (and They Sing and Play Pretty Well, Also)

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Categories: fun, music

What an awesome fun thing it was to watch U2 perform all week on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” (The new album is great, too!) They wouldn’t allow embdding of YouTube clips of the performances earlier this week, but now they are apparently available.

Couldn’t resist this one…U2 does the Top Ten List. Pay special attention to The Edge on Number 5…

Here’s the classic “Beautiful Day” from Night 4. Watch toward the end; with one surprise gesture Bono gets the whole crowd standing and shouting.

…Aaand, the hit single “Get On Your Boots” from Night 5.

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