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I was fortunate enough last week to score a “by invitation only” chance to spend the afternoon with Brian McLaren. He has gained a reputation for being one of the leading thinkers on new forms of mission and church, however I was pleasantly surprised to find him a balanced and likeable guy without the ‘attitude’ […]

A cartoon for the emerging church types.
Don’t start a riot.

Just in between the retreat and the weekend away and thought I’d post another request for feedback on your experience of the Emerging Church. My original request can be found here.
To recap briefly, I am about to do some writing that critiques the emerging church movement from the ‘inside’ in an attempt to help some […]

I’ve wondered about this a bit lately, but even more so after reading the news that Youth Specialties has lost its editorial role in YouthWorker Journal. The story goes that Salem Publishing has decided to reclaim that part of Youth Worker, leaving YouthSpecialties to rethink what it exists for.
Let me quote Mark Oestricher, President of […]

There’s been a bit of discussion about tithing (ie donating money to a church as part of faith/discipleship) around the emerging church blogoshere of late. But regardless of what your theological viewpoint is, if you have teenage kids that are Christian, you’ll get asked this. Believe me!

I’m about to embark on a writing exercise to help our people understand the foundations for why we do what we do. Towards the end of that, I’ll do a bit on “What is Church?” and talk about the various strengths and weaknesses of the different forms of church we see.
What I’m after is a […]

In this post over at Signposts, Lionfish asked the question, “When is a Church really a business?”
Good question, and one that I think relates to the session on innovation at the Forge Intensive a few weeks ago.
In my mind, if a church is nurturing faith as a revenue raising exercise, then it has lost […]

Let me say upfront that I like U2. I have a couple of CD’s that get a good working out from time to time and when a U2 song comes on the radio the volume gets turned up a bit.
But I have been absolutely stunned by how many emerging church people have gone absolutely crazy […]

The Rev has put his notes/reflections from the Saturday night session on his blog. Makes for great reading on leadership in all forms of church. With a bit of luck (hint hint) he’ll post some stuff from Monday too - I did my best to make him cry, but he managed to fend of […]

Lot’s happened on Saturday. Here’s a run down…
Early Morning Session
Warick Vincent spoke on “Jesus the leader.” I can’t tell you how glad I was to see that this topic was to be presented. So often the emerging.misisonal movement says it is Jesus based but then never takes the time to examine who he is, what […]