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• kingdom leadership in the post-modern world

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  “Today’s church is in serious trouble. The crisis we see is a crisis in leadership, because leaders are often the first to resist change, fearing loss of position or influence.  Perhaps Canadian leadership guru Michael Fullan is right when he observes that, “the two greatest failures of leaders are ...
  5 days ago

• borderland churches

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  I’m planning to crack this book next week, having read the intro and first chapter on the airplane out of Calgary on Friday.The introduction itself is compelling, setting the stage by noting the paradox(?) that in Canada spiritual interest is growing at the same time as churches are dwindling. The tension this ...
  1 week ago

• bloggers on the Congress

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  Michael Krahn has been blogging and posting extensive notes of the sessions he has attended, as well as referencing other bloggers who attended the Congress.One of the more interesting discussions is on the whole question of a “social” gospel as opposed to regeneration as the heart of the issue. Mike quotes from ...
  1 week ago

• Resources for Urban mission

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  Urban Expressions in the UK, in addition to hosting some forums to talk about mission in the city, also hosts a resources page HERE.Elsewhere New Church Initiatives hosts a resources page HERE. This latter effort was founded by Glenn Smith some years ago. A collection of articles, many of them by Glenn Smith, can be ...
  1 week ago

• Is Your Church Relevant?

  
  Self-Motivation, Personal Growth and Entrepreneurship Development on DeoluAkinyemi.com — Authority: 110
  “Any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them, and the social conditions that cripple them, is a dry-as-dust religion.” – MLKJR In the days we live in, the world celebrates Martin Luther King Jr, ...
  1 week ago

• the End of Christendom..

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  It struck me yesterday that there is nothing comparable to this Calgary gathering occurring in the United States. Seven hundred people from across the denominational spectrum and from rural, urban, and suburban settings across Canada coming together for a single missional agenda - to impact our country for Christ by ...
  1 week ago

• Wednesday morning..

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  The first session this morning was with Glenn Smith. My guess is that this academic surprised with his passion, but left some wondering how the theology works out on the ground.Glenn opened by asking two questions: who isthis God we serve? Why does he love place – neighborhoods? Glenn then presented three horizons ...
  1 week ago

• Deep Church

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  I finally have Jim Belcher’s book in hand. I am appreciating his taxonomy, which is both analytical and storied. Jim has been in relationship to a few of the “names” in the emerging church conversation since its beginning. His perspective is thus somewhat unique. Like some others, he is highly sympathetic to the ...
  1 week ago

• The Church on mission..

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  A summary of the church on mission from Transforming Mission by David Bosch..“A community of people who, in the face of the tribulations they encounter,keep their eyes steadfastly on the reign of God –by praying for its coming,by being its disciples,by proclaiming its presence,by working for peace and justice in ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK: Straight Couple Wants Civil Partnerships and Civil Marriage Open to All

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  In the latest challenge to what many see as unfair and restrictive marriage laws in Britain, a straight couple are attempting to register for a civil partnership. The couple, Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, say that it is unfair that different-sex couples may enter into a civil marriage but not a civil ...
  2 weeks ago

• measuring change..

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  “In the long run, what counts is how the next generation thinks. How far new ideas permeate culture is not measured just by attitude change during one generation, but by what is taken for granted in the next.”Helen Haste, page 149 in The Sexual Metaphor: Men, Women, and the Thinking that Makes the Difference ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Kingdom Culture

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  Kingdom Culture: Growing the Missional ChurchAuthor: Phil WaglerWord Alive Press, 2009155 pagesANOTHER book on Missional Church? What for?And that would be the right question.There are a number of things that make this entry into the conversation unique. First, it is written by a practitioner with theological ...
  3 weeks ago

• joining the Apaches

  
  NextReformation — Authority: 132
  In Inhabiting the Church Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove relates a story from John Alexander, for many years the pastor of the Church of the Sojourners in Washington, DC..“Suppose a white person went to Arizona for a weekend and came back saying he’d become an Apache. He still talked the same, he still lived in the same ...
  3 weeks ago

• Website Wisdom

  
  Goodmanson — Authority: 100
  Your Church magazine, part of Christianity Today published an article I wrote, Website Wisdom - New research, cooperative reveal best practices for churches in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue. The article begins: Research conducted earlier this year, which surveyed hundreds of churches representing more than 70,000 ...
  4 weeks ago

• Story - Churches and Social Media breakout

  
  Goodmanson — Authority: 100
  Tim Schraeder did an excellent job capturing Cynthia Ware ( http://thedigitalsanctuary.org/ ) and my session at the Story Chicago conference. Social Media Pulse What are churches current social media patterns? We are living in a world people dreamed of. There used to only be a computer at work… then it ...
  4 weeks ago

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