So in response to the recent USA today article about people turning away from religion I have had several conversations mostly in cyberspace with Christians who give me way to understand why our culture is moving into being post-religious.
First, there is the knee jerk reaction and immediate assumption by some of us Christians that if people are [...]
browsing the ooze blog I cam e across a link to this site which has compiled an extensive list of online definitions of the emerging church
i wonder as i wander: what is the emerging/missional/monastic/ multicultural/postmodern church anyway?.
Well I don’t know how I represented the emerging/post-emergent/missional world view at the Baker forum two weeks ago. It was fun to hear the thoughts of the other participants all of whom I know; including my friend Steve Argue, who argued articulately for the need of the church to look again at how we practice what we preach. A colleague [...]
If you haven’t heard about the Jena six don’t be surprised. Until today when thousands marched to protest the treatment of six back youth by the justice system in the south there was scant coverage of the six black students plight and not much talk if any of it in the Christian community.
There are many emergent conversations [...]
As the some says “Its been a long while” since I’ve been blogging anyway. Besides leading my young church plant I had the privilege to teach a class on the missional church at a local seminary Missional Church GRTS MIN567. Still humbling asking why me? Teaching students at a seminary in intimidating enough but teaching [...]
Continue reading about things I learned while teaching a class on the missional church
emergent, new monastic, emerging, organic, ancient future, missional church. I haven’t been completely comfortable with any of these current labels for evolving ways of being the church. As I have been re-imagining what it means to be a follower of Jesus in my current cultural context (urban,racially and socio-economically diverse) I’ve moved beyond emergent but had not [...]
It may be self serving but I am encouraged when I see others speaking out for a post emergent future for the emerging church. Here is a snippet of a review from a talk given by Jason Clark titled The Emerging Church: Another Dead-End or the Hope of the Church?
First, it must become a deeper church [...]
I came across this recent in the The Christian Century. The description of Jacob’s web does not seem to fit the usual prescription of an emergent church. Which is supposed to be small and democratically led. (flat leadership model)
This neighborhood is also home to a thriving church called Jacobs Well, which attracts about 1,000 people [...]
I am preparing for a couple of worship messages based on Act 2:42-44Act 2:42-44English: Contemporary English Version (1999) – CEV42 They spent their time learning from the apostles, and they were like family to each other. They also broke bread g broke bread: They ate together and celebrated the Lord’s Supper. and prayed together. [...]
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