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this gave me chills it’s so beautiful
picture used with permission from imageafter a Maasai Creed thanks to Mike We believe in the one High God, who out of love created the beautiful world and everything good in it. He created man and wanted man to be happy in the world. God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the earth. We [...]
deep church?
So is this the next big thing? Is “deep church” a new subset of emerging? Is it the new Emergent Village? What do these new “movements” or new “language” mean for the existing conversations? Were you aware of “deep church”? What does it mean to you?
since I cannot be this effortlessly clever
I bring you Letters from Camp Krusty
in short…
I posted a “missional manifesto” some time ago for Revolution. I’ll revamp it at some point I’m sure but you can see it here. I wanted to share a “short” version though of what it means to ME to live the mission. Live and love well on purpose in my space.
Minnesota emerging in the news
If you haven’t discovered Google Alerts, check it out, it’s pretty schnazzy. This popped up in my emergent alert yesterday. When it comes to churches, small has become huge. While public attention has focused on the proliferation of hangar-sized mega-churches with memberships in the thousands, the number of small churches has been quietly but dramatically growing. Since 2000, [...]
thanks y’all for the traffic
over 75% of my visits are from referring websites. So thanks for all the traffic friends!
the church is not IBM
indeed. It really bugs me that we have decided in our churches to come up with the management model and that is the model we’re using to govern most of our churches. So we got to have a strategic plans. We’ve got to have a missions statement. We’ve got to have little forms to fill out [...]
Emergent/emerging
Collective understanding/knowledge is one of the most wonderful things about blogging in my opinion. Here is a good example. Thanks FutureChurch Those of you from our previous church who think we’re heretics (I know you read here, remember that analytics thing I warned you about while back? *evil laugh*), I hope this sheds some [...]