Archive for the ‘church planting’ Category

“you know not how”

John Piper and I don’t agree on everything theologically, but man do I love what he said at a recent conference at his church. He is speaking truth, and those of us in kingdom work had better listen closely.
Let me just give one last counsel or piece of advice. This comes right off of [...]

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kingdom

From time to time I get an update from a new ministry or church plant in Boston or elsewhere, and inevitably the update includes the line, “God continues to bless our work/efforts/plans.” Though I readily acknowledge that God’s promises are true — he blesses those who put their trust in Him â&emdash; I’ve always [...]

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the challenges of traditional church in my neighborhood

As we spend more and more time in our new Boston neighborhood — in people’s homes or chatting in the park — we become even more convicted that the modes of evangelism that “worked” in the Bible Belt are moot on our block. (I’m growing more and more convinced that modes of evangelism that “work” [...]

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some reflections so far

1. Dogs help. We only would have met 1/3 of the people we have met so far were it not for our our poodle Damon. Walking Damon earlier today, I saw a woman struggling to carry several bags of groceries, so I went over and offered to help. She spoke barely any [...]

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world-creation

I don’t want to be a church planter as much as I want to be a world-creator/enactor.
Let me explain.
Walter Brueggemann has popularized the image of the preacher as a poet who causes people to imagine new worlds and calls them to inhabit them:
The event of preaching is an event in transformed imagination. Poets, in [...]

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tough situation in tanzania

A friend of mine and his wife are beginning a degree at ACU in preparation to join some teammates in Tanzania for long-term missions. (two couples, I think, are already in Tanzania planting churches in Mwanza) One of his teammates told my friend that a famine in the country has gotten so bad that [...]

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“come back to the kitchen”

I found this quote on a March 23 post from Tall Skinny Kiwi. It reminds me of what I said on this post a while back, except more concise.

The church began with a meal. The Church needs to come back to the kitchen and get itself sorted again. The Church needs to rethink the [...]

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quiet revival.

Someone sent me a link to the following article, and I decided to re-print it in its entirety here (because it’s so exciting).  I’ve been saying for over a year that God is up to something in Boston, and it appears that more people are taking notice.  This article originally appeared in the January 25 [...]

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