do you hubbub?

OK gang, that’s some great feedback.  I hope you don’t mind, but I want to try just one more on you.  The idea of the site remains the same of course.  It is a central space to get involved in great dialogue over great ideas.  The medium will be visually rich with sims and simspaces [...]

i heard it through the shapevine

OK, I need your advice and comment. I and some friends are looking at starting a online cafe environment where people can converse (using video feeds and audio links) around the great ideas of our time. We are going to provide a place where people can engage with great thinkers and practitioners in a [...]

andrew jones exposes my obsessions

How embarrasing, Tall Skinny Kiwi exposes my obsession….in the most funny but nice way.  Oh yea, he’s the tall one with the fat backside.

holy rebellion?

Probing our ecclesial assumptions in this way ratchets up the level of discomfort because to do this we must explore, indeed critique, the inherited institutional configuration of church from which the majority of us operate and from which get our legitimacy. In doing this, are we are not doing something alien to our faith? [...]

Changing the story

Although we hear about successful attempts to revitalize existing churches, the overall track record is actually very poor. Ministers report again and again that their many attempts to revitalize the churches they lead do not yield the desired results. A lot of energy (and money) is put into change programs, with all the usual communication [...]

Let the master speak…

At this point in our discussion, I thought it might be worth referring to the seriously insightful, even prescient, Asbury Prof, Howard Snyder. (Let this inform our disucssion below–lets keep going.) The following ten “Theses on Renewal” from Liberating the Church summarize Howard Snyder’s most basic convictions about the nature and calling of the [...]

going to the roots of the matter

No-one looking at the situation of the church today can say that over the last century or so things have not fundamentally changed.  The reality we deal with is that after around 2000 years of the Gospel, we are on the decline in just about every western cultural context.  In fact, we are further way [...]

risk and adaptation

Edward de Bono, no theologian, but definitely the leading specialist in creative learning processes, remarks that if there is a known and successful cure for an illness, patients generally prefer the doctor to use the known cure rather than seek to design a better one. Yet there may be much better cures to be found. [...]

The master reviewer begins his work

Len Hjalmarson, review-meister extraordinaire, begins a series of reviews on TFW. Follow them here.

The best new EMC blog of the year??

Brother Maynard of Subversive Influence votes my little bloggie as the best new emerging missional church blog of the year! Thanks for the vote of confidence Bro M!

Church growth and discipleship

As I narrate from my story at South Melbourne Restoration Community (now simply called Red), one of the paradigm changes I/we had to undergo was to be to break the hegemony that church growth thinking held over our imaginations and practices. I say this not because God has not and does not use church [...]

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