In the Coracle
“It’s almost like you’re writing a book one post at a time” - Kedge
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Church Factions in the East and West
I’m reading Orthodox Alaska by Michael Oleska for an upcoming class. It’s the story of the Russian Orthodox church’s mission and evangelization into Alaska.
The book makes an interesting comparison between the types of schisms that happen in the East and the West. Food for thought:
In the West, divisions often occur when a faction wants to strike out in a new direction and often finds the “establishment” too conservative and inflexible to allow their innovations. In the East, schisms more often deveop because the recognized leaders break with the past, becoming “innovators.”
Oleska, p. 80
That’s certainly true for the West that I know. Your thoughts on the matter?
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No Comments »Young, hip, reverent
The Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune published a nice article on that area’s emerging churches (Solomon’s Porch, Bluer, Spirit Garage, etc).
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No Comments »Sermon//Discussion - How does Jesus train his disciples?
As I wrote a while back, we’re doing a parallel processing exercise at the moment, looking at Jesus from a fresh perspective and discussing our way through all 4 gospels at once.
This past Sunday we discussed the question, “how does Jesus train his disciples?”. I recorded the discussion on my iRiver, did some very light postprocessing on it (amplifying the volume, that’s it), and posted it to a share point.
Here’s a link to that discussion. 40 min, 18mb or thereabouts.
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No Comments »9 Core Practices
The new book entitled Emerging Churches by Ryan Bolger and Eddie Gibbs has been getting rave reviews in the blogosphere. There’s a nice summary of the book’s 9 Core Practices of emerging churches here. I await delivery of my book.
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1 Comment »Indicators of a Missional Church
The Gospel and Our Culture Network (GOCN) has a wonderful working paper about identity markers of missional churches. However I identify with emerging church these days, I have no doubt that we are to be (and I’m called to pastor) a missional church.
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