Author Archives: Jay F Guin

About Jay F Guin

My name is Jay Guin, and I’m a retired elder. I wrote The Holy Spirit and Revolutionary Grace about 18 years ago. I’ve spoken at the Pepperdine, Lipscomb, ACU, Harding, and Tulsa lectureships and at ElderLink. My wife’s name is Denise, and I have four sons, Chris, Jonathan, Tyler, and Philip. I have two grandchildren. And I practice law.

Simply Missional: Bubble Creek Canyon, a Heavenly Community

Thanks to Dell Kimberly for pointing this out!

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Simply Missional: Leaving the Building

Stetzer and Geiger now get to their challenging third point:  3. Simple churches offer less at the church building, thus creating opportunities for missional living. Uh, guys, we just dropped $4 million on this building. Are you saying that it … Continue reading

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Other People’s Posts

There are a couple of posts from Nick Gill’s Fumbling Towards Eternity blog that I just have to mention (now that he’s stopped changing the font color so much 🙂 ). First, Nick’s post on a narrative reading of the scriptures … Continue reading

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Simply Missional: Discipleship

Stetzer and Geiger write, 2. Living a missional life is a part of a simple discipleship process. Jesus’ famous words, known as the Great Commission, are often quoted yet also misunderstood in many churches. “Go and make disciples of all … Continue reading

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Simply Missional: Being Strategic

Geiger and Stetzer begin with premise: Being missional and being simple require strategic thinking. [Missional] leaders do not expect mission to just happen. They prayerfully seek for the best systems and structures that both facilitate and validate effective missional thrust into their … Continue reading

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Simply Missional: Introduction

Ed Stetzer and Eric Geiger wrote an article called “Simply Missional” for Neue magazine. They make some great points I thought I’d reflect on in the next few posts. Background Stetzer is a Baptist pastor, author of several books, and … Continue reading

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Searching for The Third Way: How Football Explains Everything

I love college football. Doesn’t everybody? And it occurs to me that a football example would help make some sense of what I’m talking about. I mean, it’s been pretty philosophical — even metaphysical — to this point. It’s time … Continue reading

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On Navigating this Site

[Reposted for those new to the site] I’ve gotten some emails that suggest some readers are having trouble finding things on this site. I’m not surprised. There’s a lot of stuff here. Those of you who are highly skilled in … Continue reading

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Tide Clinches SEC West

Tide vs. Gators in SEC Championship!

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Searching for The Third Way: Baptism, Part 8

Fifth theological point: a new thought on baptism Just as is true of God, the Spirit does not have to operate in our time-space realm. The Spirit may well act outside our time and so violate what appears to be … Continue reading

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