Jason Clark, who is a Vineyard pastor, has written an interesting article on the Recovery of Liturgy & Ritual in the Emerging Church.
Here’s a quote,
Yet here I am ten year later after the planting of the church [Sutton Vineyard] that I still lead, using daily prayers, common worship, observing the church calendar, and planning our [...]
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Mike Rutter sent this link from Encounters on the Edge about Missional Church.
Here’s a quote,
… many of the emerging expressions of church were not mission-shaped, but rather mission flavored.
What’s the difference?
The article makes some great observations and asks some good questions. I particularly like this table:
Mission-Shaped Church
Mission-Flavored Church
Had its origin in a call to mission
Was [...]
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Posted in Faith, tagged Emerging Church on 10 February 2007 | No Comments »
I found this post on Solomon’s Porch via a post on Steve McCoy’s excellent blog. Interesting stuff - what do you think?
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Mark Driscoll hads a post on his blog about a new book he has contributed to. The book is Listening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches and is edited by Dr. Robert Webber.
You can download part of Mark’s chapter here.
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Kester Brewin from Vaux has a great post at emergingchurch.info
about “what the Church can learn from iTunes.”
Here’s a quote,
Renes Descartes, having mulled over, pared back, savagely pruned and stripped away at the question of existence, finally arrived at what he considered to be something fundamental, a core statement that spoke of the very core of [...]
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Bishop Mike Hill, who incidentily I believe is the first Church of England blogging Bishop, has some great posts on his blog about the Emmerging Church.
His most recent post is challanging the assumption that a new venture needs paid workers from the beginning.
Here’s a quote …
When we think about beginning a new project, we set [...]
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Posted in Faith, tagged Emerging Church, TULIP on 1 February 2007 | No Comments »
Steve Camp has a interesting (amusing) post on his site The Emerging T.U.L.I.P. …pretending to be orthodox.
In case you didn’t know T.U.L.I.P. is an mnemonic for the 5 Points of Calvinism.
1. Total Ambiguity
Methodology over message
Truth is abstract; fluid, and liquid
Conversation over gospel proclamation
Ecumenism over doctrinal unity
Constantly inventing a new spiritual meta-narrative2. Unconditional Pragmaticism
Seeker sensible and [...]
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Jason Clark has a great post on his blog titled “Deep Church: Two poles and a middle ground of the Emerging Church.” Jason is the pastor of Sutton Vineyard in the UK and also a regular speaker at many Emerging Church type events.
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