My Top 5 memories from YL/Emergent: 1. Glorieta, NM: National Evaluation Forum or New Edge gathering in 1998. We wanted to allow people to respond to the messages through visual and tactile means. So we set up an art studio in a broom closet and installed a resident artist (Derek Chapman) for the event. My…
Read MoreGoodbyes to Emergent Village
Since New Years Day, the focus of this blog has been transitioning to something different – locating and equipping missional entrepreneurs around the world that God loves. Its a movement that doesn’t really have a name but its good. I will not be using the emerging church vocabulary and this blog will be more geared…
Read MoreA Response to Tony Jones
Tony, thanks for your post "Lonnie Frisbee and the Non-Demise of the Emerging Church". Some thoughts of mine in response. The twittersphere condensed the key thought of my post into something i didn't intend to say and there was some confusion. And the title's question mark didn't come out on the URL so the date…
Read More10 types of emerging church that will no longer upset your grandfather
On New Years Eve, exactly ten years ago, I wrote a piece on the 5 types of emerging “postmodern” churches as I saw them. Now, on the eve of the next decade, I want to expand that number to the 10 types of emerging church models that we have been starting, promoting, raising funds for,…
Read MoreEmerging Church Movement (1989 – 2009)?
Update: April 2010. Well this post kicked off quite a bit of discussion and even today that discussion continues. As you read it, please note that I am saying [probably not as clearly as i intended] that i observed the movement to have matured in 2009, and is no longer a "radical and controversial movement,…
Read MoreEmerging Church and Black Rimmed Glasses
Here’s one for the theologs. Guess the person behind the black rimmed glasses? Answer at the end of the post. From the fantastical mind of Todd Heistand, Karl Barth has a beer and a smoke and a chat with emerging church leaders. Nice post, although I cant imagine a room full of emerging church leaders…
Read MoreWhatever happened to the girl who started the emerging church network?
Well, she's in her thirties now so you can no longer call her a "girl" without getting into trouble, but whatever happened to Shannon Hopkins? In the nineties, after being part of the Young Leaders 1998 event in New Mexico [where we first met] she helped to launch a coffee-shop kinda church called Soul Cafe,…
Read MoreHow to speak about the Emerging Church without sounding like a moron
Next-Wave deserve a special mention for November’s incredible array of articles on the emerging church. Sorry for coming late to the party. Very rude of me, especially since they have run my tallskinnykiwi widget to raise funds for next year. THANKS! Charlie’s cover story on What Pastors should think about the Emerging Church was a…
Read More3 Things the Emerging Church Took From the Catholics
What did the Roman Catholics ever do for the Emerging Church? Nothing! The EC had to figure it all out by themselves. Over 2 decades of struggle and experimentation and getting laughed at and being misunderstood. Actually, thats not quite true. A few things come to mind. And since I promised last week to mention…
Read MoreCatholics and the Emerging Church
The Catholic website New Advent sent me a tidal wave of traffic this week with a link to my post “How to estimate church attendance”. THANKS! And thats not all. The Catholics are making themselves felt all over the emerging church blogosphere right now: – Patrick Keenan is running a series called In Search of…
Read More6 More Types of House Church
The last post on why you can no longer ignore the emerging house church movement generated a few comments regarding the actual size of the movement and how it is estimated. Thanks everyone for your thoughts. I realize the movement is difficult to see, as I have written about before. The article was written by…
Read MoreWhy you can no longer ignore the emerging house church movement
Don’t look for the elephant in the room. Look instead at the colonies of mice that have burrowed inside the furniture and are now taking over the house. “The latest research indicates that the number of house churches in Europe have already reached or surpassed 10,000, Australia could have up to 10,000, and New Zealand…
Read MoreRed-Eye Shift at a 24-7 Prayer Room
Our family took the red-eye shift at the local 24-7 Prayer room on Saturday night. We tagged teamed all night until 6 in the morning. Our kids slept in their sleeping bags until they were tagged. They did well. And they loved it. A lot more colorful and interactive than the boring prayer meetings I…
Read MoreBaptists having second thoughts about Emerging Church
“Conversely, the emerging church movement may provide hope for reformation to Baptists ignorant of the difference between modern truths and Truth incarnate.” Lloyd Allen, 2nd Opinion: Emerging Church: Threat or Ally?, Baptist Standard
Read MoreOne Day’s Wages and Eugene Cho
Speaking of my Korean-American friends making the headlines, as I did in yesterdays post, another one is stirring things up in the USA. Eugene Cho, whom I met at Tom and Christine Sine’s house in Seattle, is part of a church called Quest and a regular blogger and speaker on all things emerging and missional.…
Read MoreDeep Church shifts over to USA
" . . . Deep Church is back with a vengeance. Get used to the term because you are going to hear much more of it." TallSkinnyKiwi, 2007 A few years ago the UK experienced a "Deep Church" wave. There were books, blogs, lecture series, Now the USA is taking a look at this term that…
Read MoreNext Decade – Prediction Number 1: Church Will Revisit 1930’s
Yeah. I know it’s a month away from end-of-decade-prediction time but I feel the first one coming on now. I think the next decade of 2010 to 2020 will involve a revisiting of the 1930’s, especially in relation to church and mission. Why? The church in the West will use up much of this coming…
Read MoreDid the online church start in 1985?
SimChurch author Douglas Estes, who participated in our Cyberchurch Symposium earlier this year, suggested the 1985 date for the origin of virtual online church. I asked him about it recently and he responded: “Andrew, Thanks for blogging about SimChurch and taking part in the blog tour. Your question was, “Can you elaborate on the date…
Read MoreTransFORM Missional Community
TransFORM is a “missional community formation network” based in USA that starts up on Monday Nov 2nd. Another great chance to jump into the emerging church stream and get some support for your new community, or some ideas on how to start one. Steve Knight is the guy behind it. Steve and I had a…
Read MoreEmerging Church Stuff
– Brazilian emerging church leaders are doing the rounds in Europe. Check them out in England at the Tribal Generation event, Nov 27th. Click image to enlarge for details. – Mark DeVine speaks well of the Emerging Church on MP3, making it safe for emerging Baptists to come out of hiding. – Carson Clark responds…
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