Category: Church

I recall how Peter Scazzero’s book the Emotionally Healthy Church really gave me a lot of help at a crucial time in my growth as a Christian and a pastor. I’m grateful that I don’t have to be totally “burnt out” or facing some major ministry “disaster” before I could become aware of the message…

I found the “Advice to a church planter” given by Brian McLaren on his dialogue page quite useful to reflect on my own journey thus far. (His words in bold, mine in italics) Often interactions like this opens up one to see “new horizons” that will lead to “fresh directions” 🙂 ___________________________________________- –OK. Here’s what…

Back to “normal life” today, looking at what I’ve missed for a month and what’s coming up for the rest of the month. I was delighted to be drawn back to the topic of “Worship” eavesdropping as well as conversing through a couple of emails. After a few pretty good knocks on the head and…

“The church is not simply a gathering of well-meaning individuals who have entered into a social contract to meet their privately defined self -interests. It is, instead, an intentional and disciplined community witnessing to the power and presence of God’s reign.” ~ Missional Church, Darrell L. Guder (ed.) Eerdmans 1998 (Thanks signposts for the reminder!)…

Since reading the book Missional Church, I’ve thinking a lot about it and using the reflections and insights in our own BLC & Malaysian context. Missional Church is a concept and paradigm that’s worth the effort and thought, and personally more energy into how it can work. I was somehow drawn to this old post…

I found the Emergent Convention Planning Blog to be a wonderful way of “eavesdropping” and “peeking” into the whole process of planning an “event” or “Learning Space” so others can be introduced to new ideas, refined in existing reflections, or challenged in other ways, etc. As one who’s in a traditional denominational education commitee setting…

Thanks Stephen Shields for the links to get the full conversation…