I had the good fortune of receiving an advance copy of Scot McKnight’s newest book, The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible from Zondervan who asked me to post a review, which I am happy to do.
Scot begins with the following assumption:
Everyone of us adopts the Bible and (at the same time) [...]
Entries Tagged as 'missional'
The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible by Scot McKnight
October 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: bible · books · church · community · missional · review
Missional Suburban Living Meets Poor Urban Intentional Community
September 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments
My friend Matthew beat me to it, but a few weeks ago he, his intern Ben Kaplowitz, and I traveled up to Philly together. We were there to take part if a day-long seminar on what a missional engagement of the suburbs is all about and it was a helpful discussion. Contrast of [...]
Tags: intentional community · missional · suburban
Childcare or Kingdom Community?
July 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
This is a brief piece I wrote for the Living Hope community as we continue to explore what it means to embrace a missional identity as a church community - specifically with regard to how we understand the place of children.
The first church I served at as a pastor was very large. We had all [...]
Tags: church · community · individualism · living hope · missional
I Love Listening
July 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments
God has done some kind of number on me. In days gone by I would have described me (and I am pretty sure others would have as well) as a guy who primarily loves to talk. While that may still be true, I am way more interested in listening these days. Wednesday night, therefore, was [...]
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What is Missional?
June 23rd, 2008 · 10 Comments
This blog post is part of a SynchroBlog - below you will see the names of about 50 folks who are all posting today on the question, “What is Missional?” This is an effort launched by Rick Meigs to try and help people get a handle on where others are coming from when they [...]
Tags: christendom · church · community · culture · gospel · missional · spiritual formation · theology
7 Kinds of Smoke
May 27th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Besides being a gratuitous reference to Dupree’s Self-Help spiel in “You, Me and Dupree,” it’s the best title I could come up with for a post full of randomness and fun linkages. You’ve been warned, no coherency is to be found here!
Listen to this song, it’s awesome.
I hurt my knee last week and it is [...]
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Doing and Sharing Life Together
May 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
I grew weary of the term and idea of small groups years ago. In most of my experience, church based small groups served mainly to isolate people in affinity based relationships. Interestingly, small groups are a relatively new concept and practice for churches in the south. Most folks down here who have [...]
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10 Ideas for Living Missionally in the Suburbs
April 21st, 2008 · 6 Comments
A full half year ago, I caught this over on my buddy Todd’s blog - 10 Ideas for living Missionally in the Suburbs (by Chris Smith) and have been meaning to blog about it ever since. I now have 2 great reasons to finally do so.
First, I find myself smack dab in the middle of [...]
Tags: blogging · books · church · community · consumerism · individualism · living hope · memphis · missional · suburban
ENF?J
April 16th, 2008 · 6 Comments
I noticed the other day that a friend on Facebook had a little Myers-Briggs profile thing, so I thought Id take the brief test and add it to mine. I came out an ENFJ. In the past I have come out an ENTJ, but I took this test twice and it came out the same. [...]
Tags: missional
For the New Year
January 4th, 2008 · 4 Comments
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This year I had the good fortune to be able to host an annual New Year’s Eve Party for a bunch of my Malone friends and plenty of others. The party was doubly significant in that it also marked the completion of a bunch of restoration that I’ve been doing on my home. For [...]
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