A bunch of us Lutheran pastors (about 10 of us) sat at a corner in IKANO’s food court. We kind of decided it’s time to have some fun! Adn not meet in the church premises. At first, the pastor who was in charge of this with me thought of bowling. Then, we felt maybe we…
Category: Church
Just do it!
In his post Don’t do it…… Adrian Warnock says, “It worries me that our blogging ‘communities’ and bible material online might make some more inclined to this way of life. I believe that a vibrant Christian life will usually not last several years outside of church. Thus, my prayer is for people to realise that…
On Groups after 60years
“Gordon Cosby (church of the Savior in Wash. DC) says that, in over 60 years of ministry, they have learned that no groups that come together for a non-missional purpose (prayer, worship, study, etc.) end up becoming missional. It has only been the groups that set out to be missional in the first place (while…
Got picked!
“Christians are spending far too much time complaining about liberals, and far too little time seeking the kingdom of God” ~ Postmodern Areopagus Well that was a good quote for the day! And right under neath this quote emergingchurch.info was nice to include me on their this months’ pick of the blogs 🙂
Wish I was there …
well, I’ll just have to be contented for now by reading the kind efforts of Chris Monroe (love the pictures), someone new to me Bob Carlton (lookingforward to download notes) and a much needed female perspecive by Anna Aven
The Sunday Service
“I love Sunday morning services. I know that’s a passé attitude in some places, but that gathering every SUnday morning of the whole church really adds something to my week.” It nice to read these words by Adam posted on Kingdom Come. Like many other aspects of the church from leadership to discipleship, it’s the…
Why the Evangelical Church Needs the Liberal Church
In a discussion about some “touchy” matters between our American guests and Malaysian pastors over lunch. There’s a tendency in us to “over-rate” the value of our “conservatism” in Asia (most of us here would be considered evangelicals, pentecostal or charismatic – for lack of better terms for now … call yourself a “liberal” would…
Is emerging only Western?
Find out what my new found friend or he found me DJ Chuang says, click here … Some thoughts from Emergent Village’s Forum under “people of color & the emerging church”, click here …
Church Planting Lessons
Darren from Melbourne has been so kind to share what he’s learnt on Church Planting. Here it is 6 parts with 10 lessons (with all the links and stuff) or just read my cut and paste together version below.
Creating new churches
Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, told the synod: “We can say that already new kinds of church are appearing … this is not an attempt to subvert the parochial system but to ask what are those questions which the system now is not answering.”