Redeemer City to City is the new name and new look for Redeemer’s Church Planting Center. Check out the new web site. What you may not know is that one of the many wonderful people that have featured on my blog for the last . . . shoot . . almost a decade . . . is the incredible and hairless Sasa Flek from Prague, Czech Republic. Sasa, who was the “scribe in our basement” when we lived in Prague has now completed his Bible translation into Czech and is setting up an apostolic base [if i can call it that] in Prague. And more to the point, Sasa is now officially connected to Redeemers family of church planters. Lucky them!
Tim Keller (pictured) also lacking in hair, is the leader of Redeemer and one of the most liked Christian leaders in USA. He has some great thoughts on the concept of being “missional”.
Speaking of the word “missional”, there was some interesting discussion last week on the subject, kicked off by Brent Thomas, that I apparently missed during my exodus out of Europe and into Africa. Ed Stetzer has the skinny, as does Bill Kinnon. Love to hear your thoughts.
off topic…thanks for the Justice and Poverty Bible, just got it in the mail a few days ago.
Surely you aren’t implying one must be hairless in order to be holy? 🙂
Andrew,
incredible – yes
hairless – of course!
scribe in your basement – what a priviledge
– but “official” – whadayamean??!!
for your record – we meet sundays in a basement pub of the great Sir Toby´s hostel in Prague, over some beers, prayers, bible readings of the church callendar, celebrating the communion, and having some great time together, of course. kinda the way i learned from you, bro! now if you want to call it “official”, you are welcome 🙂
btw – how did you know about the redeemer conenction? from here? http://redeemercitytocity.com/news.jsp?NEWS_param=31
some pics from our first advent gathering here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2045059&id=1262757905&l=353360636e
Regarding the 9 Marks “missional” controversy, I suspect a little too much is being made of it since Leeman didn’t seem to name his targets but lots of people seem to be drawing conclusions.
That said, I’ve had my own run-ins with the conservative-leaning arm of the church when it comes to the scope of the gospel and issues of mercy/justice, and I think that it’s important that we don’t keep creating bigger divides. I applaud your efforts to keep the bond of peace with some who are not quite as liberal as yourself 🙂