Category: Emerging Church
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Modern | Postmodern / Christian | Post-Christian and other irrelevancies
Greenbelt was a great opportunity to just chat with lots of interesting people without much pressure on time… Well done to my mum (I kid you not) for suggesting the Organic Beer Tent to Greenbelt – it was the perfect venue for such discussions. On one occasion I was talking to some of the Vaux…
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A churchless Church | Die Well Here.
Just back from Greenbelt which, again, was an excellent time to kick back and bump into all sorts of interesting people. Really enjoyed hooking up with Will, Jonny, Karen, Pete etc. One of the most interesting sessions was a panel discussion with Dave Tomlinson and Jenny McIntosh about churchless faith. Dave’s book, The Post Evangelical,…
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Rebellion, Godliness and the Emerging Church
Just heading off to Greenbelt, so probably won’t be posting for the next few days… Will have this resonating in my mind as I go though – probably the most complete description of what Vaux was trying to do, what the book aims to encourage, and what I hope the Emerging Church succeeds in doing:…
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Accountability and Responsibility – how can they work in EC’s?
Following on from the discussion around the previous post, I thought I’d outline some thoughts on how Emerging Churches could build accountability structures within distributed leadership models. It seems to me that the question behind this one is “who can I trust, and why?”
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Sustainability | Full-time Church Work | Distributed Leadership
Just noted from another blog (see entry for 3rd August) that some thoughts on whether or not people should work full time for churches have stirred some opposition… and a request for further debate. Let me set out my concerns.
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Thoughts on Newness and Creativity
In ‘The Meaning Of Jesus’ (see previous posts) Wright argues from 1Cor 15 that because Paul urges his readers to "be steadfast, unmoved, abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that in the Lord your work is not in vain" the ‘new creation’ that we are awaiting at the resurrection will in some ways…