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Blind Beggar: NT Wright on the future of the church in Western society
Steve Knight on stopping Google becoming evil
David Brenham on Seminary emergency
Internet Monk presents Iain Murray
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Provi is well!
Monday I called. She said she had had no headaches for three days & was home from the hospital!
Tuesday & Wednesday morning (Afternoon 4 her) we had great prayer time together and she told me she had a great testimony, that would be hard to tell me in English and it would make her cry! She told me she wants to cry when she thinks about my patience with her. But in her prayer it was clear she is actually thankful for her illness & part of that thankfulness is the assurance she feels of my love and patience with her.
I was inspired by reading “There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub” by Brian Hogan which is on sale at www.house2house.com. It’s a great & almost hilarious book of making disciples in “simple church” in Mongolia & reinforces that every great spiritual movement is founded in deep and fervent prayer. So I am praying fervently with my wife and other African leaders & sensing and hearing God pray through us & seeing answers to His & our cries.
Tuesday, as Provi & I prayed in tongues (the kind we don’t know) I saw a vision of God building buildings that I knew were our businesses. Then I saw a larger building that I knew was my (our) USA business. I knew he was building our business in many countries and strengthening my HVAC business to be like a strong tree of shelter for many people. That was after I knew in my Spirit that her praying in Kinyarwanda was partly for financial provision for me as I heard her repeat my name. She told me I was correct. Wed. morning, I sold an easy $7-850 profit job we finished Thursday with $80 added profit. You can pray with me that I’ll get more work in addition to the $1,200 in service work I just deposited.
I’ve been praying fervently for more income, feeling that it is God’s will for me to return to be with my wife in ministry for a 3-4 week trip this December. Before this weeks work I was a bit put back after learning I had to pay $2,300 in back taxes by Dec 2 to keep my house from being sold for taxes! But at least I’ve had money to send four computers for sale & one each for ministry to my wife and David Saku.
Burundi Parfait
Last Monday I had a good talk when calling Parfait (on the phone we paid for), hearing about the plans he & Bienvenu share to expand the ministry in a way that should not grow & die. He told me he had recommitted to sacrifice to make disciples and was going to a newly started “simple church” that very evening. He is a great trainer of leaders, a real evangelist, with a passion to teach in a way so that even my wife wanted me to pay for him to teach in DRCongo before my last trip.
But he is a true orphan, who has struggled for school fees to finish his secondary (high) school. He needs $60 for school fees (past due) & I don’t know why, but I feel that I should not send it. Perhaps God wants to bless one of you for helping him. He is very careful with money so you could send more than that or even less & I would make up the difference.
Martin & I both really enjoyed a “simple church” meeting in my accountant’s home, last night with a lot of prayer & accurate (I believe) prophecy. There were 3 Africans, 3 African Americans, & 7 white people with me. But you could count me with the Africans. I brought home-made bread & the main courses.
Martin is outside my window earning a little (really little) money, working on my 8 X 30′ deck/porch add on we need to finish so I can repair the house front to get it insured. When he went home it was ready for the joist hangers & joists, after which I already have all the framing for the 2nd story 8 X 30′ porch roof.
Pray for funds for Martin & I, our leaders, businesses, & divine wisdom for all of us. Remember you can buy most anything from Martin’s web-site www.fhtmus.com/mntende & increase his income, especially if you get a repeating service, like most of the major wireless & landline phone services, internet, broadband & even good vitamin/mineral supplements. I hate to see a multi-talented man with a heart to minister to the poor working for laborer wages for me, but it’s better than walking for lack of gas. We can travel to you to install the Personal Power Plant starting at about $13,000 for heating water & air to around $17,000 to also generate 10KW of electricity.
Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…
or
He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ
(Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)
Mail & donations to:
New Wave Ministry
29731 C. Rd. 28
Elkhart, IN 46517, USA
(+) 1 574 217 0552 for text messages or calls
(+) 1 574 679-0011 or 295 9696 Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & even ALL USA)
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Three New Waves:
Ø Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus
Ø Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King
Ø Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility
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Why were Pentecostals were ignored in the early emerging church movement? My Assembly of God friend Earl has some answers in his article Can We Be Pentecostal and Emergent?
Reason Number One: "Origins: Early and influential EmChurch authors, webbers, and speakers were almost all from outside the P/C [Pentecostal] movement. Many were Reformed. Lots of the EmChurch plants were actually SBC [Southern Baptist Church] under the hood, including significant amounts of low profile capital investment."
Reason Number Six: 6. "No show: Pentecostals tend to be doers, while a lot of EmChurch influencers tend to be thinkers (this is my patronizing reductionism—sorry). Result: we simply didn’t show up for work when the EmChurch was gaining momentum, largely loosing our opportunity to have a voice in the dialogue." Link
I met Earl about 6 years ago in Seattle (I think) and he interviewed me for something he was working on. I try to keep up with his writings and journey as a leader in the Assembly of God. His article is good but comments elsewhere show that there is a lot of confusion still out there and there is still much work to do. I am also thankful to Phyllis Tickle for including the Vineyard and others in her synthesis of the key streams and influences in The Great Emergence.
Why am I mentioning this? Because I heard there is a group of Assembly of God leaders coming to my meetings today so I am reading up on what they might want to ask me.
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Just heading off to the airport. I am going to Galway, Ireland for the weekend for 'Emerge' - the final installation in a series of conversations and trainings regarding the church emerging. And the speaker for the final session is . . . uhhh . . ME . . actually.
Not sure if there are spaces available but it might be worth asking if you live in Ireland. For details on this Church of Ireland sponsored event which is called "Emerge Gatherings for Todays Leaders" talk to Shane Tucker who is throwing the party and tell him you subscribe to my blog.
I really love Ireland - the music, the laughter, the craic, the spirituality. On previous visits to Ireland I have taught on Celtic spirituality in Glendalough, emerging church and Celtic spirituality north of Belfast, and about whatever came into my head at a house church meeting in Dublin. No, actually, it was one of the stories of Jesus.
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The subject of Fresh Expressions came up yesterday in the classroom. Cliff is a Methodist college and the Methodists have joined hands with the Anglicans in this project. We talked about the full spectrum of emerging church, with Fresh Expressions being on the more structurally conservative side - with many Fresh Expressions still having paid positions and using church buildings for services. Although even in the Fresh Expressions world, there is a lot of variety as this presentation by Graham Cray at Wycliffe will show. HT: Shane Tucker
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Hey - thanks to all the students for a fun time and for being so nice. One person said it was the best lecture EVER! Thanks. I will put that on my business card . . . if I ever get one.
Heres a link to some of the emerging church stuff i was talking about - and it has quite a number of links to other people I mentioned that have tried their best to summarize the emerging church. Some doing a much better job than me because I am quite subjective and get bored easily and always want to move on to the next thing. Sorry. What was I saying? Ron and I are debriefing right now at the Devonshire Arms and we just read an old blog post of mine that weaves the Princess Bride movie with a defense of postmodernism. Thanks for turning up and asking good questions. Love to keep in touch with you and hear what you get up to in your efforts to serve what God is doing in the emerging culture. Blessings.
One thing from the talks - The emerging church movement is a sustainable church movement and as the country enters recession, as budgets tighten, and as creativity is ignited, the emerging churches have already learned to start off without a budget, without buildings, without paid professionals and can offer the wider church the gift of their experience - which means that the mission of Christ can still go forward and even thrive, despite the economic woes around us.
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I just had a peek at the top ten UK Christian female bloggers in the previous post and noticed a few things:
- half of these blogs are PINK!
- most of them deal with theology
- most are creative in the comments section - one uses French language and a few of them have hacked into the instructions for a more personal touch.
- most use the blogger platform
- most come from a conservative evangelical background.
Maggi Dawn should probably be there somewhere. Maybe next time around. Her blog is really popular and full of good content, esp. regarding worship.
A few months ago at GodBlogCon, I met La Shawn Barber who has a fantastic blog and is really one of the best female Christian bloggers I have met. She doesnt consider herself a political blogger but her blog does seem to focus on politics, at least recently. Politics in the USA is a hot topic for the blogosphere and the audience is massive - much bigger than "religion" or "theology" or "mission". Helps with the blog traffic, doesn't it La Shawn?
And there are plenty of other killer bloggers out there who are not male.
- Cynthia Ware (American) at The Digital Sanctuary rocks the blogosphere.
- Becky Garrison [also American - yeah - the Americans are finally catching up] is all over the web but never on her own page.
- Cathryn Thomas [the Texas 'pomo charismystic'] blogs at Love Fiercely. She is an absolute scream and I visit her blog a lot.
- Kerstin Hack from Berlin - everyone should know Kerstin.
- Gabi Ngaboca from Hungary has an exciting life following God and her blog reflects that. Some blogs are boring because the blogger's lives are boring. Not Gabi!
- Barbara from Portugal is an blast. She lives off-grid in a Christian community and blogs at Shantii Pilgrim.
- Wendy Cooper from Canada has been blogging as long as any other woman I know. Her husband Jordon has been a blog superstar since last century but Wendy is a great blogger in her own right.
- Rachel Cunliffe [yeah New Zealand!] is an award winning blogger and blog designer.
- My wife Debbie had a well known blog on motherhood called MumJones but gave blogging a break for a few years as an attempt to reign in her husband's blogging addiction. I could probably mention a new blog that she and my four daughters have started called A Van Down By The River but then you would discover some secrets about our family plans that i have not revealed yet.
I could go on, and obviously, i have ignored many many more who will no doubt give me a hard time in the comments. But what about you? Which female Christian bloggers do you read?
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Thanks to Dave Bish again. Having reminded us that the current top 10 is all male, he figured he would highlight the top ten female Christian bloggers in the UK for November, 2008. Go check our their blogs.
1. Titus 2 Talk
2. Ros Clarke
3. Emily Woods
4. Lindsay Langdon
5. Libbie
6. Rosemary Grier
7. Carla Harding - hey - I know Carla from 24/7 Prayer
8. Jude Smith
9. Cat Hare
10. A path less followed
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On Thursday, November 13, I will be speaking twice at Cliff College. My two lectures are:
1. The Emerging Church, 1968 - 2008
2. The Global Emerging Church Today: Warts and All
. . . or something like that. Should be a good day. Please say hello if you see me there. Thanks to my friend Ron Willoughby (Contemporary Christian Studies Tutor) for the invitation and for twisting arms to get me there. Emerging Church is one of the seven streams of Cliff College's postgraduate study and integrated into the undergraduate program. I love the way they describe the Cliff experience:
Being at Cliff is:
* not quite the same as being at a regular university
* different from being at other Bible Colleges
* sometimes similar to living in a monastery
It's about community, and being centred on a common goal, on seeking to live a holy life, sharing our faith and encouraging one another to be the people God wants us to be.
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HPE Roundtable starts tomorrow in Basel, Switzerland. I should really be there but am not - I am home, working on a secret project, then off to teach at Cliff College on Wednesday. My apologies. Is anyone blogging the Hope for Europe Roundtable?
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