hirschey in ye olde england

Just so that all my English mates are interested, I am coming to England with the Together in Mission folks (a number of events including their summer school) and will be doing something with the Baptists in Bristol. As far as I am away, these are open events. Feel free to contact the [...]

missional the new emergent?

This blog is part of a global syncroblog of over 50 bloggers initiated by the Blind Beggar. The aim is to explore the current use/overuse/misuse of the term ‘missional’. Actually this is timely because I have been chewing on this for a long time and am increasingly alarmed about the potential damage that [...]

field of dreams part iv

In passing it is worth noting that one important reason why we should be suspicious of hierarchical top-down notion of leadership is because we know from history and from human nature that institutional systems confer social power and concentrates it at the top. The problem is precisely because of human nature that we should be [...]

field of dreams part iii

The problem with such forms of CEO-type leadership is that it tends to be disempowering to others, and when, for various reasons, that leader should leave the group; it tends to leave the organization weak and under-developed. This is the very thing that apostolic influence is at pains not to do—rather apostolic ministry calls forth [...]

field of dreams part ii

This idea of ‘greatness’ (descibe din previous post) squares with Weber’s explorations on leadership: The ‘charismatic’ leader, in Weber’s thought, is the person who usually leads in times of mission, crisis, or development and always radically challenges the established practices by going to “the roots of the matter.” People follow such a leader because [...]

Field of Dreams Part i

Having defined the function/roles of the apostolic person, we can now look at how apostolic ministry exerts its influence. Part of the resistance to the reception of apostolic ministry in our churches has been because at times when people who claim to be apostles have assumed that this involved a dictatorial approach to the [...]

reggie mcneal: after dinner mint

You just gotta love Reggie McNeal. Here’s a video of the winsome southerner wooing a crowd into missional church.

an apostolic job description

At core, the apostolic task is about the expansion of Christianity both physically in the form of pioneering missionary effort and church planting, as well as theologically through integration of apostolic doctrine into the life of the individual Christians and the communities they were part of. But more than that, as custodian of Apostolic [...]

compelled by love

Here is an interview with my mates Ed Stetzer and Phil Nation about their book Compelled By Love. Its a well written and conceived book, written with a popular audience in mind, and one that takes a rather unique angle on the issue of missiology. To be honest, its not an approach [...]

exilio: a great resource for missional discipleship

For all those Michael Frost fans, here is a great resource that he and Pete Horsely (Forge NSW director) have worked on. It is a video based guide to the book to be used with with groups. Easy to follow, it is truly an excellent resource for developing missional disciples and mindset. All [...]

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