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Just for the record: yes, the emerging/missional/post-modern/organic/simple/Emergent™ church is dumb. yes, the emerging/missional/post-modern/organic/simple/Emergent™ church falls short of the glory of God no, emerging/missional/post-modern/organic/simple/Emergent™ church isn't new, or better, or right yes, the church
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A few things have been tugging at my heart and mind lately. I was reading Henri Nouwen's "Bread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith" this morning, and a few things are beginning to click into place The Most Human and Most Divine Gesture
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We see today "a widening darkness between our lucky stars." Clearly the planet will not forever endure our insults. It's time for moral outrage. At the same time we must pray for grace to content against wrong without becoming wrongly contentious, grace to fight pretensions of
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Wanna know more about this Emerg[ent/ing] church thing? Here's a great list of about a hundred books to get you started: Being called to be a church planter is a daunting calling and it can be hard to figure out where to start. To help you
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This would be a great job: This post will involve: • Developing and managing the Guide, with Michael Moynagh as editor and an editorial team • Developing learning networks of practitioners using and modifying the Guide • Ensuring its interactive engagement with the life of the Sheffield Centre and the Fresh Expressions team
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Is it possible that conversation is the primary deficiency of the modern church? As we begin to reconsider what it means to live a with-God-with-others life in this world, we must spend time learning How to Have Better Conversations. A good friend, mentor, and professor of mine has spent quite
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One of my concerns is how to make a living while pursuing this free-lance apostolic ministry. Like tallskinnykiwi, I'm not sure that charging money for this type of ministry is the best approach... yet, I struggle with not being able to spend more time in this ministry. I
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Next weekend I take off for Bethlehem, PA to help lead Emerging Church Learning Party: Resources for Outreach, Worship, and Spiritual Formation in Today's Culture. The Learning Party is put on by the Praxis Center based out of the Church of the Apostles (Seattle). EXPLORE how traditional mainline
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The last couple of weeks have been a little crazy: * Kim and I now live in a new apartment on the Luther Seminary Campus. * I'm done working construction. * I now work in the bookstore on campus, interview with Faith Inkubators tomorrow, and have several websites to develop/design.
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Help Jordon Cooper come up with some suggestions of faith communities that are engaged in some outside the box thinking and actions when it comes to helping the poor in their neighborhood and communities.
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More from "The Shaping of Things to Come": "There are of course exceptions, but by far the majority of seminaries that we know basically produce pastoral and teacher types of people who are then sent to maintain established churches. This is not a time for more maintenance!
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“Successful marketers don’t tell the truth. They don’t talk about features or even benefits. Instead, they tell a story. A story we want to believe.†That’s what’s going on here. Saying something