lifeasmission

I got to spend this past weekend in Chicago.  I was there for a few reasons.  I got to visit my cousin Gwen and her fiance Rob - here’s us in the Bean at Millennium park.
(more Chicago pics here)
I was attending a mini-seminar on “Seeding Missional Communities” with David Fitch and others at Life [...]

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Ok, so I said that this post was a prelude to something else I wanted to write. Here it is, well, in a round-about way.
One of the core assignments in just about every Fuller course, for sure in MAGL courses, is book reviews. Students are asked to dive into pertinent subject matter through [...]

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As a prelude to something else I want to post soon, I wanted to say some more about where I work and what I do.
I am a part of a team of people who work with Fuller’s Master of Arts in Global Leadership Program.  Though often confused with a bent toward global domination ;), the [...]

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One of my absolute favorite things about Jesus is how he worked questions.  He would ask questions that would get people thinking and wondering.  Questions that once people had answered them would linger with them in life-changing ways.  People would ask Jesus questions to trap him and somehow he’d turn them right back around on [...]

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Leadership is a hot-button issue for many of those involved in the emerging/missional discussion/church arena. Many of these people (I count myself among them) are coming out of churches and experiences that have left them scratching their heads, or worse, hurt and scarred, with regard to their experience with Christian leaders.
For some, and this [...]

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Click here to see the first part of Mark Driscoll’s interview about the difference between seeker and missional churches.
Click here to see the 2nd part.
In usual fashion, I’m gonna try to bite off more than I can chew here and both make good on my previous promise to post more biblical/scriptural reflections on the issue [...]

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My girlfriend Maria (good luck reading it!) was telling me a story the other day.  She was in a park and there was a 1.5 year old child who seemed lost and distraught who she was trying to help and console.  Then, all of a sudden, another child emerged, this one was 3 years old, [...]

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Recently I spent 4 days at a conference in Eagle, ID. This conference was different than anything I had ever been to before. The featured guest was Brian McLaren, but whereas someone in his position would typically be described as a presentor or lecturer, what he actually did was serve as a facilitator. [...]

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I have been thinking recently about something I can only describe as the “defining majority.”  The defining majority is ta selection of people that is either large or potent enough to merit speaking of the whole based on their characteristics as a part.
For example, one might speak of a team as talented even though not [...]

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I just finished reading an article by Tony Jones published in “Out of Ur,” a blog sponsored by Christianity Today.  To save you the aggravation of a separate click, I am going to post the article in its entirety here.  This is part two of some of Tony Jones’ thoughts on the Emergent Movement, specifically [...]

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