I’ve been following Dave Price’s blog lately. Some great stories and insights on Primitive Methodism as a church planting movement.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Movements move
23 October, 2009 – 2:39 AM
Jesus always on the move. You read the gospels and Jesus is always going somewhere. He’s always meeting new people. He’s visiting new towns. He covers the nation in just a few years. In his three year public ministry, Jesus could have easily visited the 175 towns and villages throughout Galilee. It would have been [...]
Distorting the gospel from the left to the right
21 October, 2009 – 9:22 AM
It seems the global financial crisis has only encouraged the spread of the “prosperity gospel.” I agree with Peter Berger, It is certainly a distortion of the Christian message if it is primarily interpreted as a program for the material improvement of the human condition. Berger applies the same argument all materialistic distortions of the [...]
Is the gospel good news for the poor?
19 October, 2009 – 6:36 AM
It is certainly a distortion of the Christian message if it is primarily interpreted as a program for the material improvement of the human condition. The core of the Christian message is the proclamation of a tectonic shift in cosmic reality inaugurated by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This proclamation radically relativizes all the empirical [...]
Mapping the Muslim world
10 October, 2009 – 10:05 AM
Pew Research has just released a report on the size and distribution of the world’s Muslim population. A summary of the findings. . . A comprehensive demographic study of more than 200 countries finds that there are 1.57 billion Muslims of all ages living in the world today, representing 23% of an estimated 2009 world [...]
Perth and London
9 October, 2009 – 2:35 PM
I’ll be in Perth, Western Australia next week talking about Movements. If you happen to be in the most remote city in the world, drop by. Next month I’ll be on the other side of the globe in London. Same topic. St Marys London 10:00am—1:00pm, Sat Nov 14, 2009 More details to follow.
The state of church planting in Australia
5 October, 2009 – 12:43 PM
Last week in Sydney I was asked for my impressions of the state of church planting in Australia. Here are a few thoughts on how the various overlapping groups are doing. Liberal It was all over at least a generation ago. Attendances have halved in that time. The average age is over sixty. Churches are [...]
