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” [...]
Archive for the ‘ecclesiology’ Category
9 Aug
organic church in alabama
From the August 4 Birmingham News:
Cullman’s organic church
New kind of ministry strips worship of modern trappings to find its elemental roots
KENT FAULK
News staff writer
CULLMAN — Breads and coffees aren’t the only organic offerings at Berkeley Bob’s Coffee House these days.
Food for the soul is dished out Thursday nights at Organic Church, a new Christian ministry [...]
4 Aug
Dear Church…
Recently, I have heard older people questioning whether or not the younger generations would be fit to lead the church once the older generation passes the baton. What these older leaders don’t understand, I’m afraid, is that many young people aren’t sure they want the baton in its current state. Call it “baggage,” “red tape,” [...]
16 May
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 [...]
11 May
Hank Hill goes church shopping
“I guess I can understand buying coffee in church, but do you really think Jesus recommends Nat King Cole?” — Hank Hill, King of the Hill
(press the “play” button at the bottom)
HT: Kelly
26 Mar
boston celtics?
I haven’t read the book all the way through, but I have been impacted deeply by missiological principles gleaned from George Hunter’s The Celtic Way of Evangelism. Hunter suggests that an ancient practice of celtic monastic communities might have some relevance to how we in the West make disciples in a post-everything culture. He compares [...]
24 Mar
Missional-Priority
by Fred Peatross
I’m a recovering church addict who has intentionally exchanged church activity for time with the people Jesus misses the most. I’m learning more while swimming with the fish than I ever learned while attending Sunday school.
It’s counter-intuitive for church folks to disconnect from the church way of thinking and feeling but it’s [...]
9 Mar
leaving, etc.
Well, we’re heading to Austin tomorrow, and then on to Boston on Saturday morning. We’ll be in Boston (with my folks and brother) through the following Saturday. Like I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we’ll be doing further scouting of the city, a little touristy stuff, meeting with similar-minded folks, and walking in confidence [...]
6 Mar
can (or should) emergent be a prophetic national voice?
Underneath the Cosmetics
Before asking how church should look, let’s make sure we’re clear what the church is for.
by Brian McLaren
I’m often asked by pastors, as I was recently, “Should our church adopt a more emergent approach?” Often the assumption is that adding certain forms (candles, incense, a particular style of music) will make a church [...]
3 Mar
table
If New Testament scholars agree on anything regarding the nature of the church in the first three centuries, it is this: table was central. Christians broke bread together. They “did church” around the table, many times. Communion likely was part of the meal at large. Table was the central act of [...]
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