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The Wittenburg Door does it again…


You look like the whore of Babylon—and I mean that in a good way.
You look like Ruth from the Bible. She was a Christian—at least she would have been if she was born a few hundred years later. Are you a Christian? Because I only court Christians, and I’m very [...]

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Here as some book notes on John Naisbitt’s Mind Set. Very stimulating. HT to the ever-resourceful David Mays (more…)

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Here as some book notes on John Naisbitt’s Mind Set. Very stimulating. HT to the ever-resourceful David Mays (more…)

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Aaron here has set up an audio link to a talk I did recently.  Giving voice from the margins.

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Tribe, I am very sorry about the downtimes on the site recently.  I have been very busy traveling (and will be over the next few weeks) and the web hosting company has gone down a few times.  The combo makes for boring ad irritating visits.  I am sorry.

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Ash Barker of Urban Neighbors of Hope, a missional order among the poor in Melbourne and Bangkok articulates multiple levels of incarnationality. His structure is intriguing because it highlights the centrality of the experience of Jesus by the host community and not that of the church community itself. He suggests four stages where the community experiences Jesus for them, with them, among them, and of them

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KJ, a friend of mine wrote this in an email to me today

Our feelings are that of trying to strip our lives of all the s**t that makes us divine and embracing the things that make us human. Maybe in our humanity we will come to understand the prepackaged grace that was ingrained in the image of God.

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In their book on church planting Ed Stetzer and David Putman (Breaking The Missional Code 90-91) affirm the fact contextualization of the gospel is needed in every culture, but that it is a particularly important need for the church in the West today. They quote British missiologist Stuart Murray-Williams who suggests some pretty pungent reasons as to why it is so necessary for us to learn the lost arts of contextualization. (more…)

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Firstly, it is not hard to see that the reproductive capacities of the church are directly linked to the missional-incarnational impulse. It is not coincidental that this looks awfully similar to the way in which all organic systems reproduce and procreate themselves.  (It looks like a genealogy doesn’t it?) We will explore this further when we look at the element of mDNA called organic systems, but it is important to note here that herein lies the impulse for the seeding and reproduction of God’s people into every culture and group of people. In this view each unit of church can be conceived as a pod filled with seeds: each church ‘pregnant’ with other churches. And it is in following this impulse that the apostolic church extends itself.  To frustrate this impulse is to block the church’s innate reproductive capacity.

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