QUESTION: What have I done with the 150 emerging church books that used to sit on my bookshelf? ANSWER: I am setting them free to be read by my blog readers and Suddenly Seminary students. Let me tell you why and how. WHY? Heres the deal. In a month or so, our family gets back…
Read MoreEmerging Church: Ten Year Retrospective on Next Wave
Ten years ago i was interviewed by Next Wave regarding church on the new edge. Now, a decade later, the term has changed to “emerging church” and we are still talking. Actually, the Next-Wave online mag is one of the very best resources for emerging church stuff and its an honor to be a part…
Read MoreOn Being Prepared for Worship Experiences
Jon makes fun of Jonny at ASBOJesus HT: Becky Related: Jonny Baker’s Worship Tricks Technorati Tags: asbo jesus, jonny baker, worship
Read MoreCyberchurch and Online-Church Symposium
Invitations go out tomorrow for an informal meeting with creators of cyberchurch and online church communities. So far, we have verbal commitments from Church of Fools/St Pixels, I-Church and Bobby Gruenwald from the Lifechurch.tv online community in Second Life, as well as a few published experts on the topic. Should be a really good time.…
Read MoreEmerging Underground Ministries Roundtable
Today I am bouncing emails between a team of people who are throwing a big party for leaders of the “underground emerging” world. We are wondering about the appropriateness of the name. In 2006, we called it “Die Gefaehrten” [German for The Fellowship] and referred to it as the “First Global Roundtable of Underground Emerging…
Read MoreMark Driscoll Preaches in a Gay Church and Brian McLaren Repents
No. Neither of these are true but I know I would get a gazillion comments on that post. What really sucks is this: My previous post is about one million people deciding to follow Jesus with the assistance of some new web tools and only two people thought it interesting enough to comment on. Sometimes…
Read MoreOne Million Decide to Follow Jesus
UPdate: One million reached tonight. Well done Eric!! A big moment for the web! Original: You might want to consider deciding to follow Jesus today BECAUSE . . not only will you be restored to your Creator . . and enter eternal life . . but you might also be the one millionth person to…
Read MorePostmodern Doubt and African Certainty
A Postmodern Englishman vs. A Pentecostal Nigerian. Speaking about smackdowns and the clash of worldviews . . . try Jonny Baker vs. Yemi Adedeji. Interview [just posted] can be downloaded here. The interview happened at Greenbelt Festival last year in the CMS tent and it was entitled “African Certainty and Postmodern Doubt”. Both Jonny and…
Read MoreCalvin and Stuff and Calvin
Molly Worthen’s article has created quite a bit of discussion on the blogosphere, especially regarding new calvinism. Heres some stuff on it. 1. I emailed Molly Worthen who wrote last weekend’s New York Times article on Mark Driscoll, New Calvinism and WifeBeater Shirts . . or whatever it was called . . . hold on,…
Read MoreBath, London, Oxford, Sheffield
Heres my schedule next week for those trying to catch up with me. Bath Jan 14-15 House Church Consultation London 16th Emerging Generation Mobilisation Consultation [open] London 18th Belgian Ales in a Noisy Pub with Jonny Baker who has a new digital self for 2009. Location near Ealing – to be announced if you want…
Read MoreWho Would Jesus Smack Down?
Molly Worthen writes a NY Times piece on Mark Driscoll, the New Calvinists, and the trend towards masculine Christianity. Good article. Also: Missional Predictions for 2009 and Coffee shop church makes the news Related: The Skinny on Mark Driscoll
Read MoreGordon Cosby and Church of the Saviour.
“[Gordon] and his wife, Mary, began to craft an unusual church structure: Members had to commit to an inward journey of daily quiet prayer, meditation and courses on Christianity as well as an outward journey of social justice work. People would be held accountable by working in small groups.” Washington Post That was 60 years…
Read MoreRapture Index
157 Net Change +1 [which is quite high, as everyone knows] From the “prophetic speedometer of end time activity” at Rapture Ready. HT: Ship of Fools. Dang – that throws a wet blanket on this years plans.
Read MoreTom Lennie on Revival
Tom Lennie from Edinburgh was in da house tonight. We chatted about revival, hovered over my library as we discussed books, and Tom talked about his book on Scottish revivals that is being published in March. It will be called “Glory in the Glen”. Hope it does well.
Read MoreTop 3 Books of 2008
Here are my top 3 books from 2008. I have read them all twice. 1. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, by N.T. Wright. I had a gut feeling it would be the best book of the and guess what? . . I was right as usual. Even…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Chapter 7
Church and Community or Community and Church? by Ronald Gleason From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church This chapter by Ronald Gleason and Phil Johnson’s chapter, were the best ones in the book for me so I am responding to them before the others, in case I dont get to…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Chapter 9
Joyriding on the Downgrade at Breakneck Speed: The Dark Side of Diversity, by Phil Johnson. From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church Phil Johnson has written the best chapter in the book and in fact should probably have written the introduction. If you buy the book, read this chapter first…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Chapter 1
Chapter 1 – The Doctrine of Scripture: Only a Human Problem, by Paul Wells. From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church Paul Wells discusses the divine-human relationship to Scripture and offers four models – witness, accommodation, the analogy between Christ and the Bible [incarnational] and the servant form of Scripture.…
Read MoreReforming or Conforming? Introduction
Introduction by Gary L.W. Johnson. From the book Reforming or Conforming? Post-Conservative Evangelicals and the Emerging Church Bonus: MP3 with Gary Johnson in which Gary talks about the book and what lies behind it and the emerging church movement that he calls “a radical reversal of the reformation”. Gary Johnson kicks this excellent book off…
Read MoreWolfgang and Mercy Simson in da house
We just spent 3 days with Wolfgang and Mercy Simson, and two of their sons. Really great time. Wolfgang spoke at the local church and we hosted visitors at our Orkney apartment. Debbie got to hang out with Mercy, who is the daughter of a well known Indian evangelist. Mercy blogs at While We Slept…
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