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Category Archives: Missional
City Center vs. Inner City ministry, a few thoughts
Had a good time today spending time with some city center ministry guys. My introduction to city center ministry was through Tim Keller’s work at Redeemer Pres. in NYC and part of me immediately fell in love with it when … Continue reading
A note to my little church
Got a call from a woman on the church phone this morning looking for help for her sister. This isn’t an unusual situation. The deacons and I field “benevolence requests” pretty regularly. What was noteworthy about this request was that … Continue reading
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Self-sufficiency in church work and church planting
This is an area that I’ve wrestled with for a long time with populations far poorer (in one sense) than any we find in North America. My definition of “self-sustaining” is rather nuanced for this reason. The difficulty I tend … Continue reading
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The tyranny of a good idea
The zealots among us are passionate believers in something. We imagine that if only the infidels and hold-outs among us would conceded then there would be freedom and happiness. The downfall of most of us who are zealots is that … Continue reading
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Two women, the kings and the nations
The book of Revelation ends with an interesting tale of two cities. Augustine didn’t get this stuff out of thin air. Revelation 17:1 begins with one of the angels from the seven plagues giving John a tour of the whore … Continue reading
Why churches so poorly encourage kingdom development of the non-churchy vocations
I wrote this responding to this post on the new CRC-Network website. Thank you for writing this (and whoever tweeted this). In my opinion this is one (among others of course) areas of the church where we have significantly failed. … Continue reading
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How Christian change differs from the way of empire
This is something I wrote on Calvin-in-Common about an alternative approach toward the conflict regarding the Calvin BOT Memo prohibiting advocacy by Calvin faculty regarding homosexuality. I think often the “pastoral” and the “prophetic” are set against each other as … Continue reading
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Is Paris Hilton the Kingdom of God?
A friend sent me this link to a website that promotes what looks to be a wonderful project. http://www.girleffect.org/video. It’s worth watching. The video has a lot of great ideas that ring true from my experience as a missionary in … Continue reading
The "emergent" promise isn't different from the "seeker" promise for those who wannabee "successful" at doing church
Don Heatley (or Heat Donly as we used to call him sometimes) went to high school with me and we did the drama club together. A bit ago we found each other via Facebook and I discovered he was a … Continue reading
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Initial ponderings on "Instant Cool"
Interesting blog post on a blog pointed out to me via Twitter: http://praxishabitus.blogspot.com/2009/09/instant-cool-explaining-diffusion-of.html His point about what this says about network and presentation is correct, but I think about it in terms of shaping our view of the gospel itself … Continue reading →