lifeasmission

On Saturday night at CCDA I was excited to hear from Soong-Chan Rah, a Korean-American professor at North Park University in Chicago (stinkin everybody at CCDA was from Chicago!) and he did not disappoint.
Soong’s main topic was the changing face of global Christianity. No longer a majority Western religion, Christianity is growing fastest in [...]

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I don’t really like it when a full week goes by and I don’t have a chance to blog - it’s like I get creatively constipated and then I don’t know where to begin.
Aside from just getting back into the swing of things and playing catch up since returning from Afghanistan, I have been busy [...]

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The crux of my message this past Sunday, at least as it pertains to my own personal story, had to do with the way in which God used my years at Fuller Theological Seminary to shake me up and refine me.  I simply can’t say enough positive things about my experience at Fuller and its [...]

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I have been going crazy trying to figure out how to write a post in response to all the great conversation that was going on in the comments of this last post. Thanks Josh and Andy for having such a thoughtful and even-handed discussion. I was going crazy because I was trying to [...]

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One of our MAGL students pointed out this post tody and I thought it was really funny. Enjoy.Since the Emerging Church doesn’t seem to like definitions, and they do seem to like images, I offer the following.* You Might Be Emerging if…You are afrom-or–or–or–or-You own anWithout me giving last names, You still know who these people are:BrianAnneSufjanBonoTomAndrewStanDougDanYou like [...]

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The gulf which exists between the life of local church communities and centers of theological education is an atrocity created by a combination of a Christendom context and the effects of the Enlightenment within modernity. Just as truly right faithful Christian living cannot happen apart from theological reflection and study, truly good faithful [...]

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An ongoing point of contention between emrging church folk and more traditional and reformed church folk is with regards to preaching. Emerging church folk often seem to have little tolerance for monologue type preaching, noting its one-sidedness and intrinsic bent toward authority (never mind its historic biblical and historical significance for the people of [...]

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Ryan posted this on his site today and I thought I would share the love. I hope to offer some more thoughts based on some comments I am hoping to get.

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Not sure why I didn’t think of this the other day, but there is another vital component of what it mean to be the people of God linked to the idea of hospitality - welcoming the stranger.
Because of their experience in Egypt and God’s deliverance, the nation of Israel was admonished to always welcome the [...]

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I have people ask me pretty frequently to explain to them what the Emerging Church is and what it is all about. A few others are into the discussion enough to confuse the Emerging Church movement and the group known as Emergent.The other day I came across a paper delivered by Scot McKnight at Westminster [...]

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