poor reggie’s introduction

You think my introduction was funny and tricky, poor Reggie McNeal got this from the mad Dave Trotter

the forgotten book :-(

This was my introduction at the RCA conference yesterday…hilarious!

kenneth copeland shows the way, to the bank

If it wasn’t so tragic you would laugh, or if it wasn’t so funny, you would cry! Oh, I dunno, just read this ( copeland02pdf.pdf.) Care of Wittenburg Door.

i got mee some performance anxietee

Take a look at this. Talk about performance anxiety! I am sweating it already. Seriously, this is the premier church planting conference around. Everything focuses on that one thing…creating multiplication movements of all varieties. I and the shapevine team are running the missional-incarnational track throughout the conference, as well as [...]

m-i v. e-a

From the digram in the last post we can see the ‘sneeze-like’ nature of the missional impulse in the diagram. But the diagram also enables us to see how exactly it is that we have inhibited this outward flowing movement. The Christendom template tends to bolt down this missional impulse by substituting it with an [...]

a theology with missional implications

Because this goes against the grain of our inherited and ingrained practices, it is important to grasp the theological dynamics of the missional-incarnational impulse and how these two intertwined foundations of essential Christian theology inform our practices and behaviors. Firstly we can discuss the missional one.

The Mission of God
Over the last forty or [...]

going out, going deep

Here is a series of statements that will serve to set the agenda in what will be a series of posts on the mDNA of the missional-incarnational impulse.

The purpose in combining these words in The Forgotten Ways, is to link two practices which in essence form the one and the same action.  This is for [...]

viola strikes back (pun intended)

As mentioned before, Frank Viola and George Barna have written a book called Pagan Christianity that delivers a rather stinging critique of widely accepted church practices. They are coming under a lot of fire for it. Frank has a website where he tries to engage people (critics and acolytes alike). I have really appreciated the [...]

organic church conference in so-cal

Just a note for all those ‘organic’ dudes out there. Here is THE gathering of the tribe. Should be a great event.

consumption as spirituality

In the video in the last post, Annie Leonard quotes Victor Lebeau, a leading post war economist, in what must surely be a defining comment on the nature of society we live it.
Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into [...]

from extraction to disposal: the cost of consumption

Here is a scary reminder of the environmental cost of our consumptive societies. How hard is repentance going to be when it comes to the economy?? The video takes a little while to load, but be patient. and make sure you put your helmets on!

an interview at openheaven.com

This is an interview I did with Steve Eastman, editor of the ezine OpenHeaven.com TOP News….

Alan Hirsch is captivated with an idea — the church is empowered with the ability to function as God intends. Somehow much of the “how-to” was forgotten after the first century, but Alan believes it is still in [...]

pagan christianity

I received a review copy of Frank Viola and George Barna’s Pagan Christianity. This feisty book attacks the incipient paganism that has been absorbed into historic Christianity over the years. It exposes the syncretistic weak spots in what we assume to be basic in our way of doing church. Thoroughly iconoclastic, it is [...]

are you a lefty or a righty?

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise? If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa. Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see [...]

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