church follows mission

By my reading of the Scriptures, even though it is a non-negotiable, ecclesiology is the most fluid of the central doctrines. The church is a dynamic cultural expression of the people of God in any given place. Worship style, social dynamics, liturgical expressions must the result from the process of contextualizing the gospel [...]

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 [...]

entering in…

I am just about to embark on posts regarding the next element of mDNA that we need to consider (the missional-incarnational impulse). I thought we couldn’t go wrong in  quoting one of my theological heroes, David Bosch from Transforming Mission.   This quotes highlights the intrinsically incarnational nature of the church’s mission.
It should not bother [...]

incarnating into an aquarium

Here is a quote from Philip Yancy’s brilliant The Jesus I Never Knew. It highlights the radical nature of the Incarnation. (HT to Anthony Adams.)

‘I learned about incarnation when I kept a salt-water aquarium. Management of a marine aquarium, I discovered, is not an easy task. I had to run a portable chemical [...]

incarnational mission–the real christmas spirit

Once again, I am presenting David May’s book notes. this time taken from Scott Bessenker’s new book The New Friars. I believe that is one of the significant new books articulating the value of vow based communities among the poor. This, along with my friend John Haye’s book Submerge, the fantastic Rutba House [...]

the contexualized community

“The centrality of the community to the gospel means that the message is never disembodied. The word must always become flesh, embodied in the life of the called community. The gospel cannot be captured adequately in propositions, or creeds, or theological systems, as crucial as all of these exercises are. The gospel dwells in and [...]

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