Not blogging

Dont feel like it. Dont wont to. Dont have to. AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhyeaaahhhhhhhhhhhh FFFFFrreeeeeeeeeedddooooommmm!!!!

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Context [Part 3]: Between Absolutism and Relativism

The subject of contextualization and the example of Paul in Athens (Acts 17) has been lingering here and popping up on other blogs. Daryl Dash just mentioned that John MacArthur at the T4TG conference referred to this conversation [other details deleted]. Phil ends his series on Paul and Charitableness, to which I also see a…

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Hi from Dubai

Ten hour changeover at Dubai so I took off into the city. I am at an internet cafe in downtown Dubai, a dynamic fast growing city in the United Arab Emirates. Reminds me of Las Vegas. Lots of new construction here. Cranes everywhere. I heard last year that 17% of the world’s cranes are here…

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In Perth, Western Australia

Back in Perth on the Sunset Coast after many years. Really nice city. Wicked sunset last night. Today I went for a swim and body surf. Like many people fortunate enough to be born in New Zealand, I might roam the earth, living out the Kiwi mission of being salt and light to a boring…

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Blog Talk

I met up for coffee with Problogger Darren Rowse in Melbourne for our first face-to-face. We were talking about doing a blogging event together at next years SXSW in Austin. The Pope got blogged on his USA tour. Another badge for my collection from a new portal in town. “Wikio is Europe’s number 1 news…

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Grassroots Reflections

Grassroots Mission Festival – Well balanced program. Good speakers and speakers who were good people. Enjoyed the late night sessions at the local. Interesting for me to see the mix of people here, ethnically speaking, and to see how that affects the church emerging in Melbourne. Photos are here on the Life Expedition site –…

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The Aussies were right . . .

Grassroots Festival going really well. Great to be with old friends from Perth and east coast and some new friends from NZ and all over. I did a storytelling session this morning with the title “The Aussies Were Right: They bloody well DID start the emerging church movement”. This was an exploration into the Aussie…

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London to Dubai to Melbourne

Had a good coffee meeting with some people in London including Jonny and Jenny Baker, Shannon Hopkins and a family from Winston-Salem. Now I am about to endure great boredom on the London to Dubai and then the Dubai to Melbourne flights. I am flying Emirates because they had the cheapest flight. I haven’t flown…

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How Emerging Churches can Avoid Insitutionalism

” However, my research with congregations3 which profess to be a part of the Emerging Church conversation/movement indicates that organizations can both survive and thrive without becoming institutionalized, that is, without utilizing taken for granted patterns and routines in organizational structure, processes, or ideologies. In other words, my research shows that it is possible to…

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Blog Till You Drop

“Other bloggers complain of weight loss or gain, sleep disorders, exhaustion and other maladies born of the nonstop strain of producing for a news and information cycle that is as always-on as the Internet.” NY TImes explores the ugly side of professional blogging. Technorati Tags: blogging

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Love Bristol team are here

The team are here from Bristol. 15 of them who have driven up in 2 vans and didnt sleep last night. Really nice people who are working with the poor in Bristol and doing a thing called Love Bristol. They hope to have an arts centre downtown that will be quite similar to our Sorting…

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Proper Confidence and the Place of Certainty

After some chats with a number of fundamentalists over my posts on contextualization, and being falsely accused of being “liberal” . . . again . . I thought I would post these notes from the best book I have read on the subject of confidence and certainty. I am talking about Lesslie Newbigin’s excellent book…

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Going Downunder

I will be in Australia next week, mainly for the Grassroots Festival and I think it will be a really fantastic time. Sally Morgenthaler and some other great speakers, far more interesting than myself, will also be there. 2 best places to catch me are: Melbourne – Grassroots Festival, April 11-13 Perth – “Coffee with…

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L’Abri in the 21st Century

“L’Abri will continue to exist as long as the evangelical church is putting off so much of its youth,” John Sandri, L’Abri, Interesting article on L’Abri at Christianity Today called “Not Your Father’s L’Abri” where Molly Worthen talks about the shift from the 60’s to today and the kind of people who are coming (disaffected…

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Ansel Adams in Edinburgh

While in Edinburgh last weekend I popped into the photography exhibition Ansel Adams: Celebration of Genius at the City Art Centre. Fantastic! Ansel was one of my main inspirations behind me trudging up hills with a medium format camera to wait and wait and wait until the drama of the sky opens and the light…

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Context [Part 2]: Between Mindlessess and Recklessness.

This Series on Contextualization: [Part 1]: Does it Matter? [Part 2]: Between Mindlessness and Recklessness [Part 3]: Between Absolutism and Relativism Phil Johnson puts forward a good response to my response. I had not previously read his thoughts on the subject of "contextualization" but I can now see that he has a few good points…

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Context [Part 1]. Does it matter?

When John MacArthur reportedly said a few weeks ago at the Shepherds Conference that “contextualization is a curse” and “the apostles went out with a complete disdain for context” . . . I said nothing. When his sidekick Phil Johnson followed it up with “Regarding contextualization, Paul did not adapt his message to the values…

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