The 25 most influential Evangelicals in America A round of applause for Brian McLaren who’s at No. 17 (nice red shirt too!). I think most people will find one of their favorites there. How about the 25 most influential Evangelicals in Malaysia? Anyone from Malaysia want to start that ball rolling …. I’ll mention (with…
Month: January 2005
“I Don’t Know”Faith, Hope and Love in the Wake of the Tsunami
I met this young lad years ago (I think) at a National Youth Convention. His late father spend some time with me discussing matters of ranging from cell churches, metachurches, small groups to more personal aspects of ministry. The last conversation I had with his father ended with an invitation by him for a cup…
Tsunami Talk – the Aftermath
Thanks to my young friend Wai Nyan for entrusting me with the task of “facilitating the session”. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the five groups attempting to think through what’s going on in their own heads and hearts plus trying to articulate some coherent response. Of course, right from the beginning I wasn’t interested in doing…
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Dialogue with Brian McLaren My wife tells me that sometimes people misunderstand me when I try to explain something. Or at least they catch part of it or miss another part. I don’t deny that to be true. I realized that the way I think is very “weblike”, “lateral”, and I use “Mind maps” (so…
A Prayer for the Church
Lord, do something about your Church. It is so awful, it is hard not to feel ashamed of belonging to it. Most of the time it seems to be all the things you condemned: hierarchical, conventional, judgmental, hypocritical, respectable, comfortable, moralising, compromising, clinging to its privileges and worldly securities, and when not positively objectionable, merely…
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Brian’s Annotation to “The Emergent Mystique” – CT article I’m still trying to find some time to do my own version by picking out some lines to dialogue with. Reinventing the Church: An Interview With Brian McLaren (via Fred Peatross) I was first introduced to this fellow traveller through the book “Reinventing the Church”. In…
Young children & Worship
I first heard of Godly Play by a veteran children’s worker and somehow was drawn to the phrase and the theology & methodology that comes with it. The UK Godly Play site has some good starter information and a cute lamb as well. I just finished the second meeting with those involved in our “ministry…
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Missiological Implications of Dr. David Yonggi Cho’s Theology I’m not too sure how influential is Dr. Cho’s teaching nowadays in Malaysia (apart from being respected as the pastor of the largest church and a man of prayer) but this is a very sympathetic paper. Endued with Power: The Pentecostal-Charismatic Renewal and the Asian Church in…
MANIFESTO for Monday
Thanks to aPoReTiC who’s had the chance of meeting Wendell Berry in person (cool! He’s also met Brian McLaren and had supper with him ๐ ) I agree with him after reading this that Berry is indeed a prophetic voice (in the widest sense of the word) for the USA and beyond. where are the…
Random Thoughts during Sunday Siesta
It’s just a reality, it’s hard for me to have a Sunday siesta properly. ๐ I read “Robbery, the Rich, and the Children Are Watching” and was challenged to see how all our desire to bring Gareth and No.2 up in the Christian faith can work out in practice. The emphasis on the word practice….