Month: December 2005
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What Is the Goal Here?
It seems in recent posts we have been pondering the issue of what it means to live the Jesus-life (with Him and in the world incarnationally) as the priority over getting caught up with the form that church takes. This reminds me of a recent quote by Frank Viola in theooze.com: Before we can truly…
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Merry Christmas
I just want to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the community that gathers around these web pages. The dialogue/discussion/community-life that takes place here has become one of the richest and most important sources in my life from which I draw an immeasurable amount of strength, encouragement, support, challenge, growth, chastisement (in the…
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Living Incarnationally
Eddie Gibbs (Emerging Churches) provides the insight that the "emerging church" seeks to end the dualism between sacred and secular so that all of life becomes sacred. Some of what I read in Gibbs’ book seems to hang on to the concept of church-as-a-service in which the worship service becomes more connected to the arts,…
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Conversing With the “Emerging Church Conversation”
I have NOT been walking a journey that fully identifies with what has been termed the "Emerging Church." In fact, I have had a difficult time pinning down just what the term "emerging church" refers to. However… I have been reading Eddie Gibbs’ book "Emerging Churches" which has brought clearer understanding to me re "Emerging…