Thanks for all your emails regarding the video Please Don’t Make Us Sing that many of us downloaded and played on Sunday in our churches. As you know, it was taken down but is going online again. Travis, the creator of the video, just emailed me: “Hey Andrew, glad you could use the piece. The…
Read MoreWhen You Cant Afford to Drive to Church
Craig from Musings asks a pertinent question: “People who travel outside of their suburb to go to a mega-church might end up going to their local church down the road and supporting their local congregations. For the emerging church models, home churches where the whole street meet in a local home down the road might…
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i put some typepad ads up on the left column – hopefully i will earn the $15 a month that will pay for this blog
Read MoreToday is my birthday
Nothing planned. I will probably cook a nice meal tonight.
Read MoreA Story from The Gulf Coast
From Alan Cross: “Andrew, I am from New Orleans originally and my family lives near the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Picayune, MS. I embarked on an effort to get to my family and hometown as quickly as I could, but it took me several days. In the doing, I took around 30 people and several…
Read MoreTeaching Missions Strategy
Back in the days when I was studying missions at Fuller School of World Mission, we sat in a class and listened to lectures. Not anymore. Fuller Professor Ryan Bolger (co-author of “Emerging Churches: Community in Postmodern Cultures) blogs his experience in teaching a missions class interactively. He had his students develop mission strategies through…
Read MoreGrace Grinders
“There is a kind of writing, preaching, and talking about grace that instead of offering grace and extolling the goodness of God, seems to use grace as the backhand of God that is used to grind humans into the ground as it talks about grace. I’m having a hard time being gracious about this.” Scot…
Read MoreWorship Software for Semi-Traditional Church?
Its a question . . . not a solution. A church in Scotland wants to move from transparencies on the overhead to computer and projector. . Nothing fancy. Nothing too alternative/emerging. No worship karaoke or resident VJ’s mixing live feeds. Just choruses and words on a screen. Can someone recommend the way to go? Is…
Read MoreWe Lived in a Tent in Texas
It was 1998 and our family didn’t have a home. We were traveling full time in a white Ford van and we pitched our tent all over the country. When we arrived in Texas, the National Park was our new home. I think it was Lyndon Johnson Historical National Park. I wonder how many people…
Read MoreVlogging
“If the church could catch a vision for using video technology to present an authentic presentation of the life of the church — not rehearsed videos, but spontaneous records of conversations, laughing with one another, weeping with one another, people sharing their lives, etc. — the average person might take notice” From a Rutland Herald…
Read MoreDont Make Us Sing This Song (video)
(UPDATE: video is here on www.theworkofthepeople.com) Today is Sunday and there are lots of churches in Houston that will be responding to the new challenge of thousands of refugees. People who would not have thought of themselves as refugees a week ago, nor expect to be in Houston rather than New Orleans. One church doing…
Read MorePhilosophers or Phenomenologists?
You have heard it said that: if the gospel was a product, the church would need salesmen but if the gospel is a story, the church would need journalists. (I don’t know who first said that) But here is something I have been recently thinking about . . . if the gospel is an intellectual…
Read MoreMegashift : Review Part 1
Jim Rutz’s book arrived in the mail this week. Its called “MegaShift: Igniting Spiritual Power” and its been kickin’ butt on Amazon.com so you have probably already heard of it. And you should have by now. Its a great book and it will make an even greater impact that “The Open Church” because the time…
Read MoreTexas Baptists Helping Katrina’s Victims
“How to be there in ways that truly help is on all our minds.” Dr Charles Wade. Thats Charles on the left. He directs the Baptist General Convention of Texas. (BGCT). Dr E.B. Brooks on the right heads up their mission projects, including mine. Oh . . the good looking guy in the middle is…
Read MoreTonight – Abigail’s party
Abigail’s birthday party tonight – belated due to a traveling daddy – but on tonight with pizza and movies and 8 giggling girls. I am making the pizza and hosting some games. And when it is over, I leave at 11pm on a ferry to attend a strategic meeting tomorrow in Kinross with Mission Scotland.
Read MoreConferences 2 b at
Right Now – 2005 National House Church Conference in Denver Next Week – Soliton Sessions, Ventura, California Week After That: ASCP, Budapest, Hungary Last Week (too late): Connect Europe, Prague, CZ. Reports from bloggers: Chris, Andreas, Marc Technorati Tags: church, emerging church, events
Read MoreFundamentalists In The Emerging Church?
A few days ago I heard ex-nun Karen Armstrong speak at Greenbelt Festival on the subject of Fundamentalism and the Battle For God. No big surprise – | already read her excellent book “The Battle For God”. But it was great to see her in public (and take her photo). Karen made the statement that…
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
– Emerging Church Conference with Dr. Gary Collins. Oct. 21-24 Link. HT: Dan-D – Pittsburgh Missional Church Cohort Sep 28. Link – Resonate Journal (Canada) goes online. Link – “What’s Emerging In The Church?” Article by Jeffrey Jue – List of Emerging/Missional Chick Bloggers. Link [UPDATE] Soliton: Sep 8-10, Ventura Cal. Link Technorati Tags: emerging…
Read MoreThe Only Blogger in the Village
I have proof! At least until other bloggers sign up with Feedmap.net, I am the only blogger in the village of Stromness!! And even when they sign up, I think I will still claim to be the only one blogging in this village of Little Scotland.
Read MoreInterdictor: Blogging from New Orleans
“It is a zoo out there though, make no mistake. It’s the wild kingdom. It’s Lord of the Flies. That doesn’t mean there’s murder on every street corner. But what it does mean is that the rule of law has collapsed, that there is no order, and that property rights cannot and are not being…
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