Archive for November, 2006

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?” ~Satchel Paige “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” ~Victor Hugo? “Everyone is the age of their heart.” ~Guatemalan Proverb This week marks several important events in my life. First, I turn 50 on Friday. At [...]

I recently attended a national meeting sponsored by the North American Mission Board. At that meeting, attended by state convention, national, and seminary leaders in evangelism, we heard again about the need for revival in our land. In particular my friend Chuck Kelley, president of New Orleans Seminary, told us how bleak the forecast is [...]

NOTE: the following is adapted from The Convergent Church: Missional Worshipers in an Emerging Culture, by Mark Liederbach and Alvin L. Reid (Kregel). On September 13, 1970, the New York Times Magazine published an article by Milton Friedman titled “The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits.” Friedman argues that the number one [...]

Winfield Bevins planted the Church at Outer Banks a few years ago, an Acts 29 church already planting others. He is also a DMin student at SEBTS. Here is a kind response he wrote regarding the book Convergent Church: Missional Worship in an Emerging Culture by Mark Liederbach and me: “Wow, I finally found a [...]

The term “missional” remains a novel word to many in the Western Church and in particular my tradition, the Southern Baptist Convention. We sometimes express caution at new terms, and that is understandable. Besides, the terms “witness,” “share the gospel,” and others still communicate well. But given the significant shift in the U.S. away from [...]

Here are a few interesting articles online you may want to check out if you have not seen them already. First, J.D. Greear wrote on “Jesus’s Condemnation of Religion.” You can read it at jdgreear.com or betweenthetimes.com, two of the most recommended (and widely read) blogs. Also at betweenthetimes.com you can read the series of [...]

I (Alvin) hate cats. I love animals and even big cats from the jungle, but not housecats. I like snakes more than cats and even have snakes for pets. Hate is probably too strong a word, but of all the animals on earth, except for mosquitoes and ticks, I like housecats least. I actually ran [...]

Ok I have been suckered into March Blog Madness. Just for fun, the blog SBC Voices has a field of the top 64 Southern Baptist bloggers. I made the field (alvinreid.com) and thought I would ask you to take a moment and vote for my blog. Go to http://sbcvoices.com/2009-sbc-voices-blog-madness-opening-round-has-started/. You will find alvinreid.com along with [...]

Santyana said those who do not learn from history are doomed to relive it. True. But he was a pessimist. I think we can learn positive lessons from the past as well. This spring I have three, count ‘em three PhD students graduating as well as another with his D.Min. So I have set aside [...]