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Nuakh The blog and resources of T. M. Suffield. Exploring the Bible; thinking about the world; discerning

To stretch our minds we'll need to ensure we create contexts to both read and hear the Bible together.
21/11/2024

To stretch our minds we'll need to ensure we create contexts to both read and hear the Bible together.

Stretching Minds IV If we want to stretch our minds, we need to hear the Bible. This is the form it was designed to be interacted with. There’s nothing wrong with reading—it’s very good—but it can …

Sometimes "Is it Fitting?" is a more illuminating question than "Is it Allowed?"
18/11/2024

Sometimes "Is it Fitting?" is a more illuminating question than "Is it Allowed?"

In evangelical theological thinking we tend to use the category of whether or not something is ‘allowed’ a lot. Our disposition is that if it is not disallowed, then it’s allowed, and we can pragma…

If we want to develop the 'Christian mind' we can run programmes that might help, but we also need to go where people al...
14/11/2024

If we want to develop the 'Christian mind' we can run programmes that might help, but we also need to go where people already are.

Stretching Minds III If we want to see a renewal of our collective Christian mind to alleviate our discipleship crisis, we will have to think beyond Sundays. I’ve got a number of suggestions to mak…

Does your church subscribe to a confession? If not, it will still help us to write down some of our doctrine.
11/11/2024

Does your church subscribe to a confession? If not, it will still help us to write down some of our doctrine.

In my church world we can be a little allergic to writing things down. In my understanding this initially came from a reaction against a sort of formalism that was being clearly rejected. The neces…

If we want to grow a 'Christian mind' we will need to see all of our church communication as a venue for teaching.
07/11/2024

If we want to grow a 'Christian mind' we will need to see all of our church communication as a venue for teaching.

Stretching Minds II How can we disciple the minds of our churches? Consider everything a teaching opportunity. What are you already doing, how are you already communicating? Those things already te…

How would you go about making sure you're preaching 'the whole counsel of God'?
04/11/2024

How would you go about making sure you're preaching 'the whole counsel of God'?

In Acts 20, as he is speaking to the elders of the church in Ephesus, Paul tells them that he has taught them ‘the whole counsel of God.’ In context he means that he’s told them all of God’s plan, …

Churches can become committees of enquiry where people's questions are dignified.
31/10/2024

Churches can become committees of enquiry where people's questions are dignified.

Stretching Minds I When exploring Matthew Lee Anderson’s book Called into Questions—which I blogged my way through earlier in the year—I kept returning to this theme that the church should be a com…

We should offer people Jesus every Sunday. We all need him, and that's really all we've got to give.
28/10/2024

We should offer people Jesus every Sunday. We all need him, and that's really all we've got to give.

I’ve had the privilege of touring a few churches in my city in the last few weeks. A rare treat in its own way, to praise with different brothers and sisters and to see how other people do things. …

Christian households are expansive, they invite others in, they're the bedrock of community.
24/10/2024

Christian households are expansive, they invite others in, they're the bedrock of community.

Thickening Communities III If friendship and eating together are the keys to thickening our communities, then there’s a third question which I think we should seriously ask ourselves: Who has your …

In a post-Christian culture, preaching to post-Christian people, our preaching needs depth.
21/10/2024

In a post-Christian culture, preaching to post-Christian people, our preaching needs depth.

We’re at the confluence of a few different currents in our cultures that influence our preaching. We’re in a discipleship crisis, where many Christians don’t know the faith. The knowledge of Christ…

Community and Companionship begin at the Table, which means they start, locally, at your table.
17/10/2024

Community and Companionship begin at the Table, which means they start, locally, at your table.

Thickening Communities II How do we ‘thicken’ our communities? Basically the same way I think we solve everything: we eat together. We experience the deepest communion with God and with each other …

What do we lose if we no longer think of Adam as the 'federal head' of humanity?
14/10/2024

What do we lose if we no longer think of Adam as the 'federal head' of humanity?

Last week I argued that the Bible requires Adam to be the first human and the father of us all. I went through some scriptures that support this, especially Acts 17 and Romans 5. I argued that the …

To follow Jesus you need friends.
10/10/2024

To follow Jesus you need friends.

Thickening Communities I The lack of male friendship is nothing short of an epidemic. The rise of therapy and a therapeutic culture for men and women is, not always but more often than we’d like to…

What does the Bible say about Adam? Was he real? Was he the first human? Was he the father of all mankind?
07/10/2024

What does the Bible say about Adam? Was he real? Was he the first human? Was he the father of all mankind?

I was chatting with a friend about Genesis 1 and whether the earth is young or old the other day. I don’t find it a particularly interesting question, not because there isn’t an answer (there must …

If we embed habits in our lives and consider the habitual nature of gathered worship, it does leave us a third 'between'...
03/10/2024

If we embed habits in our lives and consider the habitual nature of gathered worship, it does leave us a third 'between' arena: can we think of our communal life as a place of formation?

Embedding Habits III If part of recovering from our discipleship doldrums is to embed habits—and I think it is—then we will need to do something beyond thinking individually and thinking about the …

It used to be common for contributory worship be shouted out from where people sat.Over time many churches have switched...
30/09/2024

It used to be common for contributory worship be shouted out from where people sat.

Over time many churches have switched to contributions into a microphone.

What have we lost in the process?

In my church tradition—the conservative end of the British new church movement or ‘reformed charismatic’—it’s normal that we engage in what we call ‘contributory worship.’ Essentially this means th…

We don't just need an individual rule of life, we need to understand the shape of Sunday worship as itself shaping us, t...
26/09/2024

We don't just need an individual rule of life, we need to understand the shape of Sunday worship as itself shaping us, training us in how to live.

Embedding Habits II The second way we can embed habits to help us in the discipleship crisis, is by what we do Sunday by Sunday in our church’s liturgy. I suspect most of my charismatic friends don…

Jesus that a grain of wheat remains alone unless it dies and bears much fruit (John 12.24).This is the pattern of the co...
23/09/2024

Jesus that a grain of wheat remains alone unless it dies and bears much fruit (John 12.24).

This is the pattern of the cosmos. Death, then life. This is the pattern of the Christian life.

The seed that dies is the one that bears fruit. That’s what Jesus said in John 12, Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies…

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