Today I am up in Butler, north of Perth, about to have lunch with Backyard Missionary blogger Andrew Hamilton and his wife Danelle. His blog is legendary – an emerging church kind of blog with varied thoughts on life ranging from Rob Bell to surfing. Why backyard? Because Andrew is a reticulation engineer and spends…
Read MoreLausanne Fringe (audio): Missional practises and the pitfalls of emerging church
The final audio segment from Lausanne Fringe in Cape Town. This is Mike Frost on mission as worship, missional practises in your community, suggestions by Gabi Nagy (Budapest) on prayer walking, and the pitfalls of fresh expressions of emerging church that we should watch out for and my concluding thougths. Mike is hilarious at the…
Read MoreEmerging Church Jello Begins its Wobbly Descent
Soooooo the emerging church jello plastered on the walls of historical memory by uninformed critics finally begins its slow, wobbly descent, revealing that not all that was said about emerging church leaders was accurate . . . as I have been saying for a LONG TIME. Here's some quotes you might appreciate: "I don’t attend…
Read MoreEmerging Church Retreat?
Kester asked me to read his post yesterday called Has What Emerged Retreated? Returning to the Institutions, and give some comment.
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– I can related to the blog-weary Phoenix Preacher who seeks a cave between and the Lighthouse Trails and the renewal movement. – The Sovereignty series on Man of Depravity ended well. Lots of good thoughts, including one from me. – When I was at Greenbelt Festival, I met Rob Bell and the controversial but…
Read MoreComing back soon. But first a plug for the emerging church forum.
OK. That month of silence was really good for me. And, [you add], it was really good for us also! Thanks. I appreciate that. I plan to start blogging again here really soon. I have some clarity on how this blog needs to get back to its roots as a global mission blog. More on…
Read MoreDarrin Patrick on History and Streams of Emerging Church
Darrin Patrick spoke at Covenant Theological Seminary and put together a little history of the emerging church in USA (or at least two groups within it – Emergent Village and Acts 29) and its really quite good and fair. Audio for Emerging Church Part One is at the Journey Blog. Darrin, quite apologetically, but using…
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