Distilling the Message

It’s time to get back onto the trail of Apostoic Genius…onto the mDNA of “Jesus is Lord.” Most people when asked about how they think the early Christians movement (and the Chinese underground churches) grew so remarkably answer that it was largely because they were true believers—that there was a real and abiding authenticity [...]

the issue of simplexity

The word simplex has appeared a few times on this blog. Its probably time to try and to eloborate on the idea behind my use of the this term. Well…while I use it is a nuanced way, it is stolen from the realm of biology, the humble naughty virus herpes simplex no less! [...]

church follows mission

In a recent interview with New Wineskins Magazine, I was asked this question:
Can you explain to the readers how you think adopting a distinctly missional-incarnation approach will find a faith community emerging from mission, rather than mission emerging from a particular expression of church?

Here’s my answer…
Quite simply because when you adopt an missional-incarnational approach to [...]

hirschburger with the lot at fuller

I am teaching on The Forgotten Ways at Fuller Seminary twice this year. One for the School of Intercultural Studies (Grad & Th.M levels) from 16-20 July. Here is the course description for the  course.   The other gig is for the D.Min. at the School of Theology (with Kurt Fredrickson) 8-19 Oct.  Here [...]

Lost Comments

For an unknown reason - many of the longer comments recently have started turning up in the spam cue and not in the post. We’re working to try work out why this is suddenly happening and hope to stop it as soon as we can. Generally comments with two or more links have been the [...]

the gospel and the god-4-saken

Clearly mission to the burbs is a major issue for the vast majority of missional minded followers in the West. This is especially true for America where the cities are comprised of what seems to be never-ending suburbia. I have always experienced middle class suburbia as soul-less places, symbolizing consumptive lifestyle, the loss [...]

spiderman v. batman

Debs and I are in the final stages of packing up our goodies and tying up our countless loose ends so that we can move to the US in June. What a pain! I suppose one of the benefits is that one gets to clean out all the ’stuff’ one collects over the years. Well, [...]

pagan or post-christian?

I came across this reading C.S.Lewis today. I have long felt that “Sunday School Christianity” is a menace to the Gospel and so I am inclined to wholeheartedly agree…
“When grave persons express their fear that England is relapsing into Paganism, I am tempted to reply, ‘Would that she were.’ For I do not think it [...]

i’m gonna be changed!

This is a hoot. A strangely familiar view of heaven. Oddly enough, a less erethreal, more concrete, view of heaven is closer to the Biblical teaching on the subject than the other-worldly, cloud filled, view that seems to have hung around the Western church for so long.  Hebraic thinking sees more continuity between [...]

let’s (e)merge

From a buddy called Matt Glover. See his website here…

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