According to the Australian newspaper, It’s now cool to be a Christian in the land downunder. Is this a good or a bad thing? Trends
Monthly Archives: January 2006
Spong’s legacy
23 January, 2006 – 5:58 PM
It seems my Shifting the Deckchairs in Newark has stirred up quite a bit of interest over at Signposts. A few thoughts. . . First of all you may want to read my original post on Spong The Suicide of Liberal Christianity. It’s important to remember that Spong is not an isolated phenomena but part [...]
Shifting the deck chairs in Newark
21 January, 2006 – 5:28 PM
A new report reveals the Episcopal Diocese of Newark, continues to be in serious decline. It’s membership is free-falling at a rate three times the national average for the embattled Episcopal church. Down by 46% since 1972. Nearly 90 percent of its parishes were founded before 1942, and not a single church has opened in [...]
NieuCommunities
19 January, 2006 – 7:19 AM
From my friends at NieuCommunities. . . NieuCommunities is a 42-week missional experience designed to help people live out a deep and contagious spirituality. Each year 8-12 young emerging leaders come and join our resident staff at one of our sites to form a community who will do life and mission together for the year. [...]
Generous Critique
17 January, 2006 – 1:00 PM
John Frame’s Review of Brian McLaren, A Generous Orthodoxy is a must read for anyone coming to grips with the various streams that make up the “Emerging Church†movement. The Emerging Church is diverse as Ed Stetzer has shown. Dynamic renewal movements make an innovative return to tradition. They are rigorous in committing to their [...]
Growing leaders II
16 January, 2006 – 5:49 AM
Intentional leadership development is at the heart of any sustained church planting movement.This is the second post on the Ministry Training Strategy (MTS). The previous post looks at 7 Lessons on Growing Leaders. This one fills out some the detail and came out of phone conversation with Colin Marshall who heads up MTS. MTS offers [...]
2. Commitment to a cause
14 January, 2006 – 3:58 AM
Committed people make history. The second characteristic of dynamic movements in mp3 format. Commitment to the cause. Movements
Three Emerging Streams
12 January, 2006 – 5:59 AM
Ed Stetzer has come up with an interesting analysis of the emerging church movement: Understanding the Emerging Church Thanks to the Kiwi for the heads up. He divides the movement into three overlapping streams. Relevants Reconstructionists Revisionists Definitely worth a read. I need to do some more thinking and writing on the EC from a [...]
Gerlach and Hine
11 January, 2006 – 3:00 AM
Back in the 70′s Gerlach and Hine undertook a sociological study of the Black Panthers and the Pentecostals. In their ground-breaking work, here’s how they defined and described a movement. “A movement is a group of people who are organized for, ideologically motivated by, and committed to a purpose which implements some form of personal [...]
