Highlights of BWA World Congress

There are probably 13,000 Baptists today in Birmingham for the Baptist World Alliance Congress. Thats a lot of people. I left yesterday but was there for most of it. My mate Greg Warner will probably give the skinny on the conference for the Associated Press, but I thought it was a huge success – great…

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Connecting This Week

It would be great to connect with some of you this week during my travels. Let me know is something is going on in your city also. Manchester: Tuesday 26th. Blah, Manchester. “Aggregation: The Emerging Church According to Manchester” Birmingham: Wednesday to Saturday I will be in Birmingham at the Baptist World Alliance Congress. You…

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Preaching at the Last Day of the Festival

Dangitt – i just lost my long blog post on my message today – (i am preaching at the Baptist church in Stromness. – 11:15 in the Town Hall) Ecto crashed and i had not saved it. Danggitt!!!! And i dont have time to repeat myself. But the similarities between the visual and motion aspects…

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Stromness Shopping Week

Thats me standing next to Big Rory . . . Big Rory is the taller one. . . on the right . . . with the kilt. Yesterday was the biggest day of the year in Stromness. The final day of shopping week and there have been people everywhere from a full week of parades…

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Roundtable Postponed in Germany

Die Gefahrten, The Roundtable for Emerging Church in Germany will now be held in 2006. Quite a few leaders from around Europe could not make it to Germany and having it in 2006 will ensure that all the right people can make it. Thanks to Freakstock Festival for their flexibility.

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An Exploration of the Emerging Church

Aaron Flores’ study is really worth reading over the weekend. Its a well researched 194 page document title with a title long enough to make William Carey proud: “An Exploration of the Emerging Church of the United States: The Missiological Intent and Potential Implications for the Future.” .PDF Aaron – thanks for making it available…

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Emerging Scene in USA

– Charisma has a big article in August’s issue – See Jeremy Del Rio, who was selected for the magazine. – Aaron from thevoiz.com has released a Study on the American Emerging Church that i hope to download and read soon. – And Ken Archer’s Review of Carsons “Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church” is…

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Aggregation: The Emerging Church According to Manchester

Blah Manchester is next Tuesday (26th) – I will be speaking on “Aggregation: The Emerging Church According to Manchester.” Ben says “We’re fully booked which is encouraging, about 60 people from across the North West ranging from practicioners to bishops!” That’s cool that we have a full house – but for those that cannot come,…

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D.A. Carson and the Australians

Mike Frost and Alan Hirsch have written a statement of where they stand on the whole D.A. Carson VS. EmergentVillage saga and Carson’s book “Becoming Conversant With Emergent. They explain why they think Carson’s assessment of Emergent is “irrelevant for the missional church in Australia.” They also claim to be more theologically conservative and mission…

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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

We waited at Borders Books in Inverness until 12:01am on Friday night so that Samuel could buy the latest installment – Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince”. Haven’t done anything that silly since we waited for Star Wars (1999) outside a Chicago movie theatre in our Winnebago until it opened just after midnight. Sometimes you…

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Downloadable NerdTV

Robert Cringley, who less than a year ago said “most of the video bloggers will be blogging to themselves” (link) is now getting ready to produce his own downloadable TV show called NerdTV that will be distributed through PBS web site using Bit Torrent, a network of distributed servers (Robert’s “poor man’s Akamai”) . .…

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Turkey Allows Churches

“Turkey’s bid to join the European Union has resulted in a relaxation of restrictions on Christian activity. The country is now allowing churches to register. Only 55 Protestant churches have been publicly identified as places of worship in Turkey’s major cities prior to this significant change.” From Agape Press, Link A book I read recently,…

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Top 50 Most Influential Churches in USA

In USA: “The 2005 survey was sent to 2,000 church leaders with the goal of ranking the nation’s fastest growing churches and churches with more than 2,000 weekend attendance.” (oops . . here is the link – thanks scotty) Great to see some emerging church pastors there (Mark Driscoll, Rob Bell, Erwin McManus – congrats…

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Jim Rutz’s MegaShift

“The path away from spectator religion frees people from fixed church role-playing. Previously, many people were passive, conformist churchgoers, experiencing church as a television without a remote control. The personal involvement of every follower of Christ, though, rouses millions of talents and abilities to solve even the most difficult problems. The result is a ‘Megashift’,…

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The Smartest Guy in the Emerging Church Turns 50

Brad Sargent is the smartest guy in the emerging church. And he just turned 50. He has an incredible brain (and heart for the marginalized) but his health has never quite kept pace. Still, in his good productive hours, he manages to do the work of three geeks, and writes more content than the a…

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Complex Christ and Vaux

Kester Brewin has created The Complex Christ Blog, an extension to his excellent book. His church Vaux closed recently and is looking to rebirth into something new in London. Vaux existed for 7 incredible years. I first visited in 2000. I took some video and wrote about it in artlcles like “Is This The Next…

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Back Home

Ahhhhhhh . . good to be home. 3 days without internet is like a month in real time. I half expected there to be lots of nasty comments and spam from every company in the world who found out i wasnt there to monitor my blog – only 2 spams in my comments and i…

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Sending off Cindy and Elizabeth

We are on the road until Monday. We are sending off Cindy (its her birthday today) and our 12 year old daughter Elizabeth who are starting their 6 week pilgrimage across Spain (Camino de Santiago). They fly out of Aberdeen on Friday. When Elizabeth returns from this rite of passage, she will not be a…

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Emerging Church in Modern Reformation

My copy of Modern Reformation arrived in the mail yesterday (cool cover in Kiwi green!) and I was surprised to see the entire issue devoted to the Emerging Church. I love the Reformed folk and I think they have added a lot of spice to the conversation over the past year. The issue is quite…

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Labyrinths and Navigable Worship

Tim Challies has a old post called Experience The Labyrinth: (Insert New Age Music Here) which is getting some new life in the comments section – some think its a Satanic tool, and others who think its a great way of praying with focus – its an interesting discussion. Many ministries and websites that are…

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