more about networks

Manuel Castells is one of the key thinkers on networks. In his view networks are made up not only of nodes but also of hubs. The hubs are places where the lines of communication connect. A node may be just about anything: a media outlet, a website, an organization, or an individual. [...]

About Networks

Back we go to the series of posts on organic systems…
Not surprisingly as we move closer to a network structure, we will not only find ourselves closer to the structures of the NT people of God but also more aligned around the dynamics of Apostolic Genius. It is therefore critical to explore the nature and [...]

mandela on leadership

I have to admit that I totally love Nelson Mandela. I do believe he is the greatest leader alive today and a remarkable example of grace. Time magazine recently did an article on him and his view of leadership. Interestingly he says that these are not principles but tactics. He is [...]

love colors our world

Why does the gospel look to so many like a bowl of lima beans? (article by Mark Labberton taken from Christian Vision Project)……

For those who find the grace and truth of Jesus Christ convincing and compelling, such a question may seem absurd, if not blasphemous. But compared to the spiciness of the cultural concoctions that [...]

lying to god in worship

I have been part of the Presbyterian Global Fellowship’s conference on missional church (see personal blog) and one of the speakers was Mark Labberton. I had never heard of him, but I have to say that I think he was brilliant. I ran out to buy his book, The Dangerous Act of Worship, and [...]

two new books by november…yay!

Just an update on the books I have been working on. They will both be published at the end of this year. Check this out…

The Forgotten Ways Handbook: This book is a very practical guide to applying The Forgotten Ways for activating missional movements and for remissionalizing the local church/organization. Each chapter contains [...]

The Trouble with Paris (pt. II)

Why Your Faith Does Not Work: (Excepts from The Trouble with Paris)
She looked like a girl who had it all. She was strikingly beautiful, confident, and hip. Half the guys in the room were looking at her, and all the girls in the room wanted to be her. She had ticked all the boxes: she [...]

The Trouble with Paris (pt. I)

Mission in the West can be difficult, it is new uncharted terrain. Two of the great errors that we can make as we birth and nurture missional-incarnational movements, is to assume that we understand and know the context in which we incarnate, and secondly assume that we and the people that we lead have not [...]

the flight of the dove (fellowship)

What eventually became known as DOVE Christian Fellowship International (DCFI) had its roots in a bible study involving young people coming to faith in the Jesus People phenomenon in the early 1970s. Larry Kreider, the leader of the group had became increasingly frustrated with the cultural mismatch of the prevailing church and the [...]

Networked structures: Liquid v. Solid church

If Apostolic Genius expresses itself in a movement ethos, it forms itself around a network structure. And once again this tends to be very different to what we have come to expect from our general concept of church. When we use the word “church” it is very hard to get some kind of [...]

ideas on fire

Guys, I am at the Christian Associates staff meeting in Hungary (I am a member of the leadership team) and we have had Greg Boyd as our speaker.  I have to say that he is one of the finest Theologian-Prophet-Preachers I have heard.  His stuff on the Kingdom of God is superb.  I thought I [...]

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