In a useful article, James KA Smith writes, responding to the question of why corporate worship has a place in Christian life given that all of life is supposed to be worship. If we are going to be caught up in God’s mission of remaking the world, thereby sanctifying ordinary life, we need to be […]
mission
Questions to find ways into community ministry
I’ve found a set of questions from Carl S Dudley in Basic Steps toward Community Ministry (or here) seem to sum up well the kinds of things that I have discovered I want to know early on in a pastoral or missional ministry in a community. So here they are, consolidated from several chapters. Step […]
Mission Shaped Liturgy?
There is a bit of a debate about mission and liturgy which becomes particularly acute when considering something like ‘seeker services’. The debate revolves around whether worship should be only for the people of God or whether it can be wider. Well, …. the secret is to design liturgy/worship to enable Christians to honour God […]
The Church in China
BBC Radio article on the growth of the Chinese Church. Starts with Amity press in Nanjing, printing 1m Bibles a month … BBC iPlayer – Crossing Continents: The Church in China.
The Alban Institute – 2010-06-28 Why Blog?
I’m aware of a number of church leaders from Bishops to curates to pioneers and assorted not-so-regular ministries who blog. And in terms of why and what I recognise in what they (and I) do in this quote: Blogs are a perfect medium to tell stories about what faith looks like in practice. Testimonies, stories […]
Missional Church for beginners
Missional vs attractional mission in the local church in about 2 minutes; Simples. <object width=”445″ height=”364″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/arxfLK_sd68&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/arxfLK_sd68&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999&border=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”445″ height=”364″></embed></object> YouTube vid.
Mind42.com
This is more to introduce an online mindmapper. Allows export as graphics files. This one’s a map about Bevans and Schroeder’s prophetic dialogue model of mission. <a href=”http://mind42.com/pub/mindmap?mid=751300c3-0062-4a4f-8ff1-5df728389f50″>mission as prophetic dialogue</a> Mind42.com.
Are fewer young people using social networks such as Twitter? How we all use the internet | News | guardian.co.uk
For looking at virtual worlds and cultural trends, this is significant. Overall, 30% of British adults have a social networking profile, against 21% in 2007 when Ofcom first did the research. Half the UK’s online population have a Facebook profile and spend an average of nearly six hours a month on the site compared with […]
Missional family tree
From LeadershipJournal via Alan Hirsch. The image is way bigger than shown; you might want to zoom in on it.