a different perspective from alan hartung on the emerging church, politics, faith, and life
I’m a little late to the party, but I want to point out Brother Maynard‘s advent blogging collective. I haven’t been able to get his widget to work just yet, but hopefully the posts will soon start appearing in my sidebar. There seems to be more of a buzz about “advent” this year. Perhaps it [...]
advent > what are we waiting on? So, our waiting now is a liturgical waiting, a waiting of reminder. Our waiting now is also a mystical waiting, a waiting on the inside for God, for Jesus, for our Savior as the Holy Spirit gives Him to us, in many different ways. We hear this, perhaps, [...]
Having formerly pastored an established church, I can relate to wanting to know what a visitor’s perspective on our worship services and programs is like. The church I was at was very small and didn’t have the human resources for a great production. It was very modest worship and then the Alan show for a [...]
I’ve had a draft stuck in my WordPress for quite some time. I finally went back to reread the post, and I realized it was just about ready to go. So… with only a few edits because a blog I referenced is now defunct, here’s a little on “paradigm thinking”: To add a little humor [...]
Dan Kimball has been doing a series called “Hot Theology” in the worship meetings for his church in Santa Cruz. Through a poll of the church body, difficult theological topics were targeted. Last week, Dan ventured into the difficult subject of hell. Here’s a portion of what Dan had to say: I stressed how we [...]
I just ran across a blog post from a progressive Christian blog, where the emerging church is discussed and described as “a much more progressive Christianity– instead of focusing on the “sin & salvation” model, it takes the view that Christ didn’t judge but helped people to be all they can be. Very much sharing [...]
Justin Baeder’s asking some very interesting church structure questions and coming up with some great ideas. Basically, he’s proposing a “church” community where there’s not a central organization but Christians in an area meet in various forms, at various times, doing various things, without a central location and organization holding them all together. “Elders, pastors, [...]
Andrew Jones asks about the emerging church label because “using the term is problematic for some Seminaries and ministries. What do you think? Is the term helpful to you or a hindrance? For me, since most of my conversations now fall outside of the Evangelical world, the use of the term has been quite handy. [...]
I’m going to be writing on a few subjects over the coming weeks. One of which is the relationship of faith and works. Occasionally, I enjoy doing a google blog search or using other blog search engines to find content. Frequently, blogs which are not currently on my radar screen for one reason or another [...]
I just received a couple copies of Out of The Ooze, a collection of articles from www.theooze.com. My article, “Church Restructure” appears on page 153. This is the first time I’ve been published in book form, though I’m close to completing a proposal which should get accepted rather quickly. Of course, you could scour The [...]