living out-carnationally

By living incarnationally we not only model the pattern of humanity set up in the Incarnation but we also create space for mission to take place in organic ways. In this way mission becomes something that ‘fits’ seamlessly into the ordinary rhythms of life, friendships, and community and is thus thoroughly contextualized. Thus these ‘practices’ [...]

incarnation-al: being formed by the story

The Incarnation not only qualifies God’s acts in the world, it must also qualify ours. If God’s central way of reaching his world was to incarnate himself in Jesus, then our way of reaching the world should likewise be incarnational. To act incarnationally therefore will mean in part that in our mission to those [...]

incarnation: the god-dimension of mission

John 1:1-18 forms the central defining Scriptural text narrating to us of the marvelous coming of God into human history. But this text is far from the only one to probe this mystery.  All Christians acknowledge that In Jesus Christ God was fully present and that He moved into our neighborhood in an act of [...]

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 [...]

Copyright © 2008 The Forgotten Ways • Linear WordPress Theme • Powered by WordPress • Maintained by Noble Design