So, what on earth is the church?

For many of us, church has been something we have lived with and around for much of our lives. And this is a good thing, because the community of faith is meant to be a living community of God’s people. But the problem is that hanging around it for so long we get to [...]

Forge Newsletter

For all those ‘Forgies’ out there, even those who wannabee ‘Forgies’, here is our final newsletter for 2006–the sought after Christmas Edition. Actually, anyone is allowed to read it.

More of the same?

Back to our dialogue on The Forgotten Ways. Whatever we might say about movements, it must be said in the context of the decline of the church as-we-know-it in the West at the dawn of the 21st Century. The fact is that we face a real dilemma with the declining appeal of variations [...]

To know God is to change…

I am feeling a tad philosophical because I have been listening to a remarkable series of lectures by that wonderful Scottish theologian T.F. Torrance. In ways reminescent of my philosophical hero Soren Kierkegaard, he suggests that to know God is to change. This is so, he suggests, because genuine knowledge of God involves requires [...]

Control freak or chaos freak?

Seth Godin, marketing guru and generally creative dude, posted this blog recently….

Sitting behind the pilot on a tiny plane today, I was reminded how important, difficult and tedious this job is.
Pilots have to get it right every time. They have to follow a myriad of procedures. They must be calm and focused and consistent, and [...]

Scratch and smell (or a sample chapter or two)

The publishers have selected the introduction and chapter one of The Forgotten Ways as a sample of the book for download and distribution. The introduction will not be strange to those who have been engaging on this blog for a while now, but chapter one will be entirely fresh. It tells the story [...]

Bubblegum for your soul

I recently watched the R.E.M. video Shiny Happy People and I couldn’t help thinking that it reminded me of worship in a local church that I attended recently. Actually it was not worship, it was more like a sing-along. You know, that postive, middle-of-the-road kind of music that fails to really stir the spirit and [...]

Conception, gestation, birth…Take a look.

Its out at last! (The book that is.) I have a few copies of the book in my hot little hands. And its on its way to the various distributers as we speak. Its exciting because it has been a four year journey to this point. Feels like I am [...]

The six elements of Apostlic Genius

In the previous post on The Forgotten Ways, I described how my journey to writing the book starting with me repeatedly asking myself the question, ‘how did they do it? How did the Early Christian Movement (and in our day, the Underground Chinese Church) achieve ‘spontaneous expansion?’ How did they grow exponentially, against [...]

Blasphemy on sale

Just for a little break from our recent blogathon, I thought I would post something for the bizarre category. In this blog I deliberatedly compare what most Christians would consider distasteful what with they might consider acceptable, even normal, as part of evangelical Christian culture. Compare this with this.

Which is the more offensive? [...]

An ancient piece of contemporary advice

Came across this fantastic piece of organic wisdom recently…
Act without doing: work without effort.
Think of the small as large and the few as many.
Confront the difficult while it is still easy.
Accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.
–Lao Tze

Has real significance when it comes to thinking about our tasks, and our various communities, [...]

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