Organic Church
I’ve just finished one great book. Now I’m on to another. Both look like candidates for the best couple of books I’ve read all year.
The pages are already getting
Church
A lampshade is not a hat
Or so I heard on the radio this morning as they gave advice on how to behave at the staff Christmas party. It was already too late for the staff at Richview. We
How to talk to an evangelical
Scot McKnight turns the tables and suggests some ways that those in the emerging movement might talk to evangelicals. These two are my favorite:
…don’t engage evangelicalism by reducing evangelical theology to
Nine core practices of the emerging church
From Emerging Churches, a book I’m currently reading. Nice summary here.
1. Identifying with Jesus (and his way of life)
2. Transforming secular space (overcoming the secular/sacred split)
3. Living as
Emergent Christian/Jewish Leaders Meeting
So what do you do if you disagree on an issue? I like what happened when Doug Pagitt announced an Emergent Christian/Jewish Leaders Meeting.
It’s hard to replicate all the dynamics