Instant Subversion...
- Saturday nights before preaching always feel like the calm before the storm. It's really weird.
- Back to the Future with the Beast. So great!
- The beast rocked his tryout for the Michigan Blue Jays this morning. #prouddad
Subversive Amps…
Church Archive
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You get up on Sunday and do what!? or the Church Question
Posted on March 22, 2010 | View CommentsThis is the sixth post interacting with Brian McLaren’s A New Kind of Christianity. Please remember that I cannot reproduce the book in these posts. I will do my best to summarize without being overly simplistic or reductionistic. Each post will be two parts. The first will... -
Review: Compelled By Love
Posted on September 22, 2009 | View CommentsCompelled by Love: The Most Excellent Way to Missional Living was written by Ed Stetzer and Phillip Nation and published by New Hope Publishers. Stetzer is the director of LifeWay Christian Resources and Nation is a church planting missionary in north Metro Atlanta. Compelled is... -
Phase two…
Posted on June 17, 2008 | View CommentsSo, I have been writing a bit about the big picture of what missional is and exploring some things here and asking questions. Most of these questions I don’t have answers for, it’s a bit frustrating for a guy who usually has answers for EVERYTHING!... -
Who leads this whole thing?
Posted on June 13, 2008 | View CommentsThe one questiont that I have been wrestling with in conversation with a friend and as a result of reading The Forgotten Ways is the issue of authority. What does it mean? Who is in authority? Is there leadership anymore? What does it all look... -
Stepping out…
Posted on June 10, 2008 | View CommentsSo, I have begun thinking about “programming” in the church. It’s something that I have been wrestling with for a while and my thoughts are beginning to clarify a bit more. I studied some pretty large chunks of Acts this winter and spring. Something that... -
The Forgotten Ways, Part 8
Posted on June 5, 2008 | View CommentsIt's hard to imagine a few weeks ago when I sat down with my friend Doug at the Bean and he encouraged me to read Allelon.org's blogs about the missional church that it would have led to a month of thinking more deeply about what it means to be the church. The next day I walked into the library at Michigan Theological Seminary and grabbed a little book called The Forgotten Ways. This is post eight, the last chapter of the book: Communitas, not Community. -
The Forgotten Ways, Part 7
Posted on June 4, 2008 | View CommentsAs I sit here at home I have just finished the book! So we are on the home stretch with only a couple of posts on The Forgotten Ways remain. This chapter was one that I was not particularly looking forward to. As a result it took a while to chew through it. However, it turns out that "Organic Systems" are actually pretty cool things! Who knew? -
The Forgotten Ways, Part 6
Posted on June 4, 2008 | View CommentsIf the church is going to become this embodiment of Jesus in a communal way then there is a foundational issue that must be dealt with. That is our conception of what it means to lead. How do we lead if we have set aside the corporate and the coercive models of power? -
The Forgotten Ways, Part 5
Posted on June 3, 2008 | View CommentsPart five is upon us! The Missional Incarnational Impulse. What the heck does that mean? This is another chapter where Hirsch makes it pretty clear that he must define his term in the negative, what I mean is that, a positive declaration of "missional-incarnational impulse" is difficult in and of itself to define, therefore, you have to state what it is not to bring clarity to what it is! -
The Forgotten Ways, Part 4
Posted on May 29, 2008 | View CommentsThe Heart of It All - Jesus is Lord. So, now what? The first main principle that Hirsch lays out is that of disciple making. The development of disciples has taken on a new cool twist recently with all the emphasis on the Jewish life and what a Rabbi really is and therefore what it means to be a disciple. Hirsch steps in a provides a clear, succinct, and challenging picture of what discipleship is all about. How important is discipleship? Hirsch argues, "if we fail at this point then we must fail in all the others."