Kester Brewin

Category: Emerging Church

  • Leadership and Ethics […] 2

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    To summarize the previous post: It’s my theological contention that the Church needs to become a ‘self organizing’ system if it is to properly model the holy freedom God has given us post-Incarnation. In Griffin’s ‘The Emergence of Leadership – Linking Self-Organization and Ethics’ – he posits that there is an apparent paradox in much…

  • Leadership and Ethics in the Self-Organizing Emergent Church 1

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    This is a long post I know; hope you persevere with it. The issues of leadership, in particular whether people ought to work full time for the church has provoked some wide debate on this blog before. [ see posts and comments here and here ] It’s something that I’ve been thinking over for a…

  • Guest Post 2: Through the Keyhole

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    I realised I don’t need to go to church services anymore. All I need to do is look ‘through the keyhole’ and I recognise the ideology/theology of that place. It’s something television has exploited. And we understand it intuitively. ‘Through the keyhole’ the cameras wander around someone else’s house, from living room, to kitchen, to…

  • What Do You Want to Change Today?

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    The Japanese principle of Kaizen proposes that the best way to change an organization is in tiny incremental steps. The permission-giving starts with the management of course, but the key is that each individual worker performing their little task within the company is given the power to change their environment or working practices so that…

  • Does God Regret The Fall?

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    The idea in the previous post of there being limits on where we ought to live on earth was given another spin on a piece about whether creativity has limits: Rollo May: “Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose. The capacity to create ourselves, based…

  • See the straitjacket

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    Go into any social gathering and you will see how the hierarchies are set up. Whether it’s the debating chamber of parliament, your living room, a local pub, an interview room, or a Sunday morning service… Forget what is actually being said or why. Forget content. Through the way the space is set up, relationships…