Tag: incarnation

Spirituality in the Suburbs (riffing on Al Hsu’s book)

August 7th, 2008, No Comments

This entry is cut n pasted from a section of a paper that I’m writing on spiritual formation for my BGU Overture I class.
Spirituality in the Suburbs

Albert Hsu’s book The Suburban Christian contains the best-developed thinking that I have yet seen on suburbia as a mission field.
Contemporary culture tends to look down upon the suburban [...]

Tags for Where We’re Going

July 24th, 2008, No Comments

Today I had a really helpful and powerful chat with one of my heroes, and though I want to digest that a bit before talking about it here, it also spurred me to find a page in my journal and open it up.
Here are some tags that I wrote in my moleskine notebook a while [...]

Attractional vs Missional

July 7th, 2008, No Comments

With regard to those outside itself, …

The attractional church says come and see.

The missional-incarnational church says go and be.

With, not For

June 28th, 2008, 2 Comments

One of Grace’s points is: With not For As we walk together with others in their faith journey, we walk in mutual relationships, both giving of ourselves and receiving from them. … We develop relationships of commitment, to be with them in their journey rather than to simply show up for charity work.

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