How would you feel if your church used this approach? Click on the picture to enlarge it. HT Mork. To see more details on the survey mentioned in the picture go here.
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How Can They Believe That?
According to the Daily Telegraph (so it must be true!) more people in Britain believe in aliens, ghosts and UFOs than believe in God (story here). Now it is very easy to mock this and to wonder how people can believe such crazy stuff. However, before doing so, Christians should remember that the virgin birth, […]
This really makes me squirm, but there are lessons to be learned… HT Mark Sayers
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Toward a Missional Hermeneutic
This rather uncomfortable sounding phrase essentially means reading the Bible through the light of God’s mission. Michael Goheen, has just published an excellent set of notes on the subject over at the Gospel and Our Culture Network. The outline of the paper gives a feel for what he is saying. Scripture is the Record of […]
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Planting the Gospel
Alan Hirsch has just posted a terrific quote from Dr. D. T. Niles – I wish I knew where it comes from. The Gospel is like a seed, and you have to sow it. When you sow the seed of the Gospel in Israel, a plant that can be called Jewish Christianity grows. When you […]
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Changing Questions
David Fitch has just written a fascinating post about theological training for Christian ministry. One of David’s colleagues is taking a denominational mission training course and had to reflect on some theological issues. However, she found that the questions did not really fit the world in which she lives, so she decided to rewrite them. […]
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Tribal Ministry for the Urban Jungle
John Drane is one of the most engaging thinkers I’ve ever come across on the subject of the church and culture. Third Way has an excellent, though rather long, piece by Drane on the tribal nature of modern urban life in the West and how the church should respond to it. In the 1989 movie […]
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Dave Burke on Postmodernism
My mate Dave Burke of Bethany City Church in Sunderland has just posted on his website some talks that he gave at Keswick this year. One of them is an excellent piece on post-modernism that I strongly recommend to you. One of my gripes about much Christian critique of post-modernism is that the often do […]
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Low Maintenance Church
I love this quote from Jonathan Ingleby: My answer to that question is another question: can we begin to think seriously about low-maintenance’ churches? Also, is this possibly one of the things that ‘emerging church’ is about? We are simply being crushed by the weight of the structures we have created in order to maintain […]
Christianity Today has an excellent article by Tim Keller which looks at the nature of the Gospel. The gospel has been described as a pool in which a toddler can wade and yet an elephant can swim. It is both simple enough to tell to a child and profound enough for the greatest minds to […]