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 [...]

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 [...]

m-i v. e-a

From the digram in the last post we can see the ‘sneeze-like’ nature of the missional impulse in the diagram. But the diagram also enables us to see how exactly it is that we have inhibited this outward flowing movement. The Christendom template tends to bolt down this missional impulse by substituting it with an [...]

a theology with missional implications

Because this goes against the grain of our inherited and ingrained practices, it is important to grasp the theological dynamics of the missional-incarnational impulse and how these two intertwined foundations of essential Christian theology inform our practices and behaviors. Firstly we can discuss the missional one.

The Mission of God
Over the last forty or [...]

going out, going deep

Here is a series of statements that will serve to set the agenda in what will be a series of posts on the mDNA of the missional-incarnational impulse.

The purpose in combining these words in The Forgotten Ways, is to link two practices which in essence form the one and the same action.  This is for [...]

more frosty on fire

Everyone liked Michael so much, here is part II of his talk at the Presbyterian Global Fellowship.

frost on fire

Here is a video of my co-conspirator Frosty, talking about missional church, missional God. Mike is one of the best public communicators alive today. Enjoy…

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