imagining how the church can reorient around mission

 

"The local church in much of Europe is like a crippled man.  We must not turn in disgust and abandon this hurting man.  We also must not criticize him for how he got himself in this position, or walk around him to get our task done.  We must come alongside him and help him to walk straight and powerfully.  Indeed, this man could bring great hope to his people if first healed and directed onward!" read more

 Delaware Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell says she tried "every other kind of religion," including witchcraft and Buddhism but became a Christian because of her love of Italian food.

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Diego is a part of one of our projects in Latin America.  The Project's name is El Living   Listen as he explains the unique nature of doing mission in Uruguay.

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Ok, I had to put this on because I had the first Rap album (vinyl) – Sugar Hill Gang, Rappers Delight.  This is very entertaining. If you are from the 70's you might just have to "get up off'a that thang."

 Just in from Spokane where Rob Fairbanks and I facilitated our second session of INFUSE, CA’s training in the theology and practice of missionary living. Some 70 – 80 leaders, missional pioneers and church folk participated in this second beta. From a presenter standpoint I think it went okay, though I feel I have yet to find a stride in presenting some of Lesslie Newbigin’s ideas. On a conceptual and very practical level, Newbigin has really helped me understand the church’s call in a much broader and more positive light. When Newbigin returned to his native England in 1974 after decades of cross-cultural immersion and ministry all across India, he recognized the dire need of his own culture to have what he called “a missionary encounter with the gospel.” The church in the UK had lost its ability to relate to the lives of normal people. It had failed to listen and adapt to the soundings of context, which left it seriously crippled in its capacity to interact and juxtapose its own key Story within the cultural milieu of secularism and emerging postmodern diversity. The gospel (which literally means “good news”) was no longer viewed as relevant to the needs and lives of Western people.

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Here's another important (and well thought out) take on the Driscoll, McDonald Multi-site video clip by David Fitch.  Hit the link to see his whole post (You can watch the video on my last post and read some more of my thoughts on the subject on this post). You owe it to yourself to read David's thoughts. read more

Ok, I am going to limit my comments to only two:

1) I honestly had a hard time listening to this entire conversation.  One person used the word "vacuous" in describing this interview.  Maybe too kind.  Ok, for me, there was something quite odd about McDonald in this dialogue.  I was certain that Driscoll would be the one I was most put off by on this topic…surprise.  BTW – At the beginning, why did Driscoll keep interrupting Dever, when Dever was simply giving a common lexical definition of "ecclesia."  Seriously? read more

leadership, apostle, porphet, missional

Biblical justice involves making individuals, communities, and the cosmos whole, by upholding

  both goodness and impartiality. It stands at the center of true religion, according to James, who says that the kind of "religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world" (James 1:27). Earlier Scripture says, "The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern" (Prov. 29:7).

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