You could read this story two ways…
West Ridge Church along with 77 other churches in the Atlanta area are canceling Sunday services the weekend of July 23-25 in order to do community service (something we’ve seen before). It’s called Community Makeover, and it’s an event that creates an opportunity for the church to get outside [...]
Out the front of our house we have our lawn, then a pavement and closest to the road a 2 metre strip of lawn that spans our block and is considered council property.
I was reading Simon’s blog today and the neighbourhood initiatives he was writing about and couldn’t help wondering what would happen if we [...]
I often think David Fitch says it well and he does again here with his comments on whether the whole ‘emerging’ scene is dead, sick, passe or whatever.
I really couldn’t give a rodent’s posterior whether nametags gain traction or die, but that the church is renewed and re-inspired to focus on the things that are [...]
Here are some great thoughts on world engaging holiness from my good friend Alan Hirsch. I think he says it clearly and succinctly.
Before we move on to some of the many wonderful expressions of the Holy Spirit, we thought it important to address some of our misunderstandings around the issue of holiness. As mentioned in [...]
My last post only garnered two responses but they both challenged me to rethink whether we can stop ‘beating the missional drum’ and I think they are right to say ‘no!’.
It is our default setting to think ‘me first’ and to enjoy comfort rather than sacrifice so I think the commenters were right to [...]
“Lesslie Newbigin, born 100 years ago , launched a new career at age 66 by calling Western churches to act like they were in the mission field.”
Read the whole article here
Newbigin has been a huge inspiration behind the recalibrating of church and mission all around the western world over the last few decades.
Some days suburban transience really does give me the irrits.
We have been gone 6 months and on Saturday we arrived back in our street and caught up with friends and neighbours and the church community we will be leading. It was beautiful to see those people again and yet what strikes me this morning is [...]
Does it ever strike you as odd that while many churches appoint ‘pastors’ and may even call them ‘Pastor X’, they don’t do the same with apostles?…
In my own tribe we don’t have much problem with the role of pastor, teacher or even evangelist, but when it comes to prophets and apostles we seem a [...]
I remember vividly the first Forge intensive I attended at BCV in Lilydale way back in 2002. I had just transitioned from being a youth pastor to a team leader in my church at Lesmurdie and I was grappling with how we lived out the missional calling both individually and corporately. Those 5 days rocked [...]
No.
I realize that’s a short abrupt answer, but I don’t think we would struggle to hear it as much if it were framed the other way.
Try it.
Can a pastor survive as a pioneer?
No. Of course not. That’d be a silly thing to expect of a pastor!
Ok, maybe ‘survive’ is a little strong… but only a [...]