Jeff's Musings

Yesterday I was interviewed by Lindy Lowry, editor at Outreach Magazine, for an article they are doing in their Sept/Oct issue. Bridge Church was part of Outreach's Faith In Action campaign and one of the acts of kindness our people participated in was  gasoline buydown.  It was the ...

My friend Bobby Williams, who used to be a punk, but is now a church planter wrote about me on his blog:http://www.confessionsofaworshipper.com/2008/06/honor-open-letter-to-jeff-calloway.html#links...

Here is a list of books I am reading and hope to finish while on vacation in July. Breaking The Discipleship Code by David PutmanPop Goes The Church by Tim StevensunChristian by David KinnamanThe American Church in Crisis by David OlsonDangerous Surrender by Kay Warren...

We can choose to ignore the culture or we can choose to engage the culture. We have to contextualize our message as Paul did. Paul quoted the writings of the philosophers of the Athenians. In our cultural context, we must be able to talk about the latest music, movies, television, and news events. W...

We began a new series of talks last Sunday on Bridge Church's mission, which we call the E's: our mission is to encounter, engage, and encourage people to experience Jesus, equipping them to change their world. Each Sunday I am unpacking the E's.  Each week we are using the story o...

Patrick and Jeff...

Part of the wonders of missing a flight is the great people you get to encounter while waiting. While waiting for the shuttle to the Marriott last night, there was a familiar looking man with his wife waiting for the shuttle as well. I approached him and shared that I thought that he looked familiar...

Yesterday Patrick Jesberger and I had left the Purpose Driven Community Gathering to head to John Wayne airport to catch our flight back to Cleveland. The plane we were supposed to fly out on was struck by lightning while coming into John Wayne.  They loaded us on to the plane while they check...

Here are some quick tidbits from the ministry panel. Bil Corneilus who is the Lead Pastor and founder of Bayside Church led off the panel.  Patrick and I had a chance to hang out with Bil in Saddleback's green room and asked questions and shared what we are doing. Fifty percent of Bil'...

The panel on discipleship included Mark Driscoll, Steve Stroop, Lee McFarland, Nelson Searcy, Mark Batterson adnd Stovall Weems. Driscoll stated that the Culmination of Discipleship rested in three things: Desire – Make sure that people are regenerated before you start trying to disciple them....