Making babies is fun

Firstly, it is not hard to see that the reproductive capacities of the church are directly linked to the missional-incarnational impulse. It is not coincidental that this looks awfully similar to the way in which all organic systems reproduce and procreate themselves.  (It looks like a genealogy doesn’t it?) We will explore this further when [...]

reasons to contextualize

In their book on church planting Ed Stetzer and David Putman (Breaking The Missional Code 90-91) affirm the fact contextualization of the gospel is needed in every culture, but that it is a particularly important need for the church in the West today. They quote British missiologist Stuart Murray-Williams who suggests some pretty pungent reasons [...]

something profound here…

KJ, a friend of mine wrote this in an email to me today
Our feelings are that of trying to strip our lives of all the s**t that makes us divine and embracing the things that make us human. Maybe in our humanity we will come to understand the prepackaged grace that was ingrained in the [...]

submerging

Ash Barker of Urban Neighbors of Hope, a missional order among the poor in Melbourne and Bangkok articulates multiple levels of incarnationality. His structure is intriguing because it highlights the centrality of the experience of Jesus by the host community and not that of the church community itself. He suggests four stages where [...]

i am sorry

Tribe, I am very sorry about the downtimes on the site recently.  I have been very busy traveling (and will be over the next few weeks) and the web hosting company has gone down a few times.  The combo makes for boring ad irritating visits.  I am sorry.

On being sorry.  As an Aussie I am [...]

selling the problem before we sell the solution

Aaron here has set up an audio link to a talk I did recently.  Giving voice from the margins.

mind set

Here as some book notes on John Naisbitt’s Mind Set. Very stimulating. HT to the ever-resourceful David Mays

Everyone has a mental picture of the world. It comes largely by extrapolating what they see in their own piece of the world through their own grid or mind set. The international best-selling author [...]

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