50 ways to leave your lover

Human beings, including Jesus’ disciples, have become artful in developing ways in which to escape from the all-encompassing claims of God in Jesus. Any discussion about true encounters with God must therefore include ways in which we try and avoid him, to qualify the God relationship, to ameliorate the tension he creates in our lives. [...]

obsessed with disciple-making

It is interesting that when we really look at the dangerous stories of the phenomenal movements, at the most uncomplicated level, they appear to the observer simply as disciple-making systems. But the rather funny thing is that they never appear to get beyond this—they never move beyond mere disciple-making.  This is because it is at [...]

god’s roll of the dice

When dealing with discipleship, and the related capacity to generate authentic followers of Jesus, we are dealing with that single most crucial factor that will in the end determine the quality of the whole—if we fail at this point then we must fail in all the others. In fact if we fail here, it is [...]

goodness and godness

Linked to the previous post is the idea of goodness inherent in holy acts.  It is goodness that makes the holy deed vibrate. I have always loved the haunting power of Elie Wiesel’s work.  Listen to him here from his somehat autobiographical novel, Twilight
If you could have seen yourself, framed in the doorway [Pedro once [...]

action as sacrament

I am currently at the Church Resource Ministries (US) conference and am doing a series of talks on Jesus and Hebraic Spirituality.  But as we are exploring the mDNA of discipleship at the moment, I thought it worth commenting on the sacramental validity of holy actionand radical goodness. As many would be aware, I am [...]

disciple-making as strategic activity

Those who have been following the series exploring The Forgotten Ways, will be aware that in terms of the model of Apostolic Genius I suggest in the book, all six elements of mDNA (Jesus is Lord, Disciple-Making, Missional-Incarnational Impulse, Apostolic Environment, Organic Systems, and Communitas) must be present for authentic apostolic movements to catalyze and [...]

staying close to jesus

The last blog on this topic caused a bit of a ruckus. A nice one, and one well worth pursuing. So lets take it one step further….Most people reading this blog would be aware of the distinctive meaning of the Hebrew word for knowledge; a word that is used from both human intercourse [...]

existence communication

As we begin an exploration into the next element of mDNA…discipleship and disciple-making, I thought we could start our journey by exploring the idea of existence communication…a little piece of Soren Kierkegaard’s weird but wonderful mind. First consider these two quotes from two very different people.
“We can only live changes: we cannot think our way [...]

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