Geoff Holsclaw is a native Californian who now calls Chicago home. He has served for over 10 years as a pastor at Life on the Vine, has recently co-authored, Prodigal Christianity, and is affiliate professor of theology at Northern Seminary. You can follow him on Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube.

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Honoring Your Church

by Geoff Holsclaw 03-12-2014

When the day of Pentecost came. Mark A Hewitt, Pastel & pen. 26 May 2012. Via oldtractortinshed.net/?p=591

Headline news is usually bad news. Viral blog posts are usually polemical. And those “way-too-long” conversations on Facebook and Twitter are often based in controversy. Pain, division, and anger drive on-line traffic and often directs the content.

And church news is little different: pastor so-and-so is embroiled in a moral failing; church such-and-such fired its pastor over leadership differences; and the seminary down the street let go a professor over theological issues. The list goes on and on.

Isn’t it time for something different?

How about a little good news? What about a viral campaign about churches doing well? Well, here is my modest attempt to say a good word about our church community.

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