“Christians and non-Christians have something in common. We’re all uptight about evangelism. Our fear as Christians seems to be How many people have I offended this week? We think that we must be a little obnoxious in order to be good evangelists. A tension builds inside: Should I be sensitive to people and forget about…
Month: November 2003
True Heroes in The Lord of the Rings
Here’s an excerpt from the article from Morris Institute for Human Values (a link I got from Jason Clark), “Little children amuse us as they learn new skills by declaring, “I do it myself!” We applaud their desire to leave behind infant dependency and to grow into more and more independence. But we never outgrow…
Six Action Shoes
What Action Shoes do You Wear?. The danger of enjoying the whole thinking hats process with no action is very very real. We need hats and we need shoes! Reflection & Action …
Star Trek & Church?
Here’s a pretty comprehensive set of Emergent Church notes taken from sessions by Stuart MURRAY-WILLIAMS via Andrew Jones. The Star Trek Analogies were useful!
Six Thinking Hats
How about some Parallel Thinking with some fun? “The quality of our thinking determines the quality of our future.” -Dr. Edward de Bono, creator of Six Thinking Hats® Try out De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats! (A useful chart here and powerpoint presentation) I might try it out in in the sub-regional pastors meeting afterwards 🙂
Understanding Islam
Calvin Shenk’s booklet “Understanding Islam. A Christian reflection on the faith of our Muslim neighbors” reminded me the need to continue my understanding not only at a theoretical level but at a more practical one. I did a course on “Islam” for two semesters (one year), participated in an extra course last year (to deepen…
Missional – Mennonite flavour!
Here’s some goodies from the Mennonite Mission Network (USA) and the Missional Travel Bag from Canada. I like ideas and reflection questions in “Through a Missional Lens”
Spiritual Health Survey
Got this survey (pdf, or doc) via the next church. I’ll be walking through the questions afterwards. don’t want to wait until last minute (e.g. 31st December 2003)!
Learning in progress
It’s great to have a look at Jason Clark’s Dmin project presentation. It spurs my own hunger for life-long learning. Todd Hunter & Eric keck has put up their project too! Got linked to Winn Griffin’s project and Mike McNichols’ project as well! I’d dream some day (soon) I’d be on this journey with a…
No-Sweat Speaking
Here’s an online free e-seminar on public speaking. cool! Click here