missional church

Outreach

by Eddie 02.07.2010

The problem with Dave Walker’s cartoons is that sometimes I don’t know whether to laugh at them, or to recoil in embarrassment when I see myself in them. This one certainly highlights some of the absurdities of Church ‘outreach’ activities that I have taken part in over the years. If you’d like to do better [...]

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Missional Velocity

by Eddie 08.03.2010

Alan Hirsch, co-author of one of my favourite books The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church gave an excellent seminar on the mission of the church at a recent conference. You can watch it on video here (choose the Hirsch video, when you follow the link) . It [...]

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Is Your Church Like This?

by Eddie 08.01.2010

By the wonderful Dave Walker.

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The Point of the Church

by Eddie 30.12.2009

The church’s foundation and continued existence are not to provide refuge for lonely souls, or even less to be a plank of salvation on a tempestuous sea that threatens damnation. The point of the church is rather to point beyond itself, to be a community that preaches, serves and witnesses to the reign of God. [...]

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The Lonely European?

by Eddie 29.12.2009

Richard Dowden has an interesting article about Africans and loneliness in The Times today. Or rather, about Africans and not being lonely. While I tend to be suspicious about anything that makes universal claims for a continent as large and diverse as Africa, I feel that he has a point. Here are a few excerpts: [...]

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Britain Doesn’t Want to Understand the Bible

by Eddie 01.07.2009

The Independent reports an interesting survey which was carried out on behalf of the Centre for Biblical Literacy at St. John’s Durham. The public is widely ignorant of the stories and people who provide the basis of Christianity, a survey has found, despite 75 per cent of respondents owning a copy of the Bible. The [...]

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Reading the Bible in Greek and Hebrew

by Eddie 26.06.2009

Brian makes the case for reading Greek and Hebrew superbly in this post: The Scriptures exist as the story in which we are to find ourselves as individuals and as community. In the missional reality of our day, there is no room for superficial engagement with the Bible. I fully understand that it is unrealistic [...]

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Mino: Missional in Name Only

by Eddie 28.12.2008

If all the talk is all about ‘going’ and no one goes anywhere – you might be Mino. If the majority of your money, your leaders time and your buildings are still used to meet your needs – you might be Mino. If your idea of church is still just one hour out of your [...]

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The Meaning of Missional

by Eddie 14.12.2008

In an excellent article in Leadership Magazine, Alan Hirsch sets out his view of what the word missional means. I find it hard to pick fault with him. A proper understanding of missional begins with recovering a missionary understanding of God. By his very nature God is a “sent one” who takes the initiative to [...]

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Future Church

by Eddie 10.11.2008

The recordings of Mike Frost’s talks on the future of the church are now available at Facing the Challenge. If you are at all interested in how the Church can function in this post-everything world, then Mike Frost is someone you will want to listen to. Hat Tip Phil (who seems to have a faster [...]

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Everything you wanted to know about being missional

by Eddie 05.11.2008

J. R. Woodward has just posted a humongous blog post with links to all sorts of resources; book reviews, blog posts, biographies and more, about missional church. You will need a lot of time if you are going to follow all of the links but this is one to bookmark. Hat Tip TSK

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Missional Thoughts

by Eddie 07.10.2008

These are the notes for a talk that Jane, a friend of ours, gave at a Wycliffe meeting in Switzerland. I think it captures some really important thoughts and I’m very glad that she gave me the opportunity to share it with a wider world. BIG CLAIM Jesus left his disciples, his body the Church, [...]

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