Over the last few days an interesting discussion has been taking place on the yahoo ‘reframe’ list concerning this thing called ‘emerging missional church’. My friend and co-worker Geoff has posted his thoughts on his blog.
Funnily enough my thoughts are quite different – yet we both live and operate in similar ways…
Here’s my post:
Words [...]
I have been developing what I consider to be my own personal understanding of mission – how I see it biblically and practically and trying to shape it into a ‘model’ of sorts.
One of the exercises this weekend is for the crew to take a maximum of 5 of these words and shape a model [...]
This weekend I head out to the wild west of WA for a couple of days in Kalgoorlie.
I’ll be hooking up with the 24-7 house church network and doing some ‘forgish’ type stuff focusing on mission and evangelism what shape that takes especially for house churches.
I’m loking forward to the opportunity to meet a bunch [...]
Steve Said is doing some research over here and would value feedback from people doing ‘emerging church’ stuff.
Go over and give him your two bobs worth!
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Perhaps its just my own sense calling to be a missionary, but The Mission is one of my favourite movies – one of the few I actually own and I watched it again today.
Its a beautiful movie, but also incredibly powerful with themes of incarnation, justice and love all thru it.
The penance / grace [...]
"During the last year or so, I have come to appreciate the "worldliness" of Christianity as never before.
The Christian is not a homo religiosus but a man, pure and simple, just as Jesus became man… It is only by living completely in this world that one learns to believe. One must abandon every attempt [...]
"Every moment and every situation challenges us to action and to obedience.
We have literally no time to sit down and ask ourselves whether so-and-so is our neighbor or not. We must get into action and obey — we must behave like a neighbor to him.
But perhaps this shocks you.
Perhaps you still [...]
Hey all you gospel and culture junkies here in Oz. Digger has just told me that the feisty and provocative ‘John Saffran v God’ series is repeating on SBS starting tomorrow night.
I didn’t get to watch it all last time and have been looking out (to no avail) for the DVDs.
Here’s a chance to watch [...]
This bloke has some great things to say on thinking and living like a missionary here in the first world.
Phillip has written some great stuff on New Age / alternative spiritualities and was a great help to us when we put a stall in our own local healing festival.
His latest post is a great image [...]
I obviously haven’t had too many thoughts to offer lately, but here’s a quote from Miroslav Volf, via James that I am thinking about.
"There is no church without the reign of God and there is no reign of God without the church."
True?