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Archive for October, 2007
A Mile In My Shoes – Chapter 3
Posted: 30th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Books, Spiritual FormationComments Off
After introducing the pilgrimage experience (chapter 1), and preparing for the pilgrimage (chapter 2), Hudson takes the third chapter to flesh out the first of three essential ingredients of the pilgrimage experience. When discussing the importance of truly encountering our suffering neighbor, Hudson writes: For over twenty-five years I have pursued the call of being [...]
Rick Meigs at Blind Beggar debriefs a bit here from the Allelon Missional Order gathering earlier this month. Just started reading Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds by Tom Davis which is the foundation for 5 For Fifty. Billy Calderwood gives a personal reaction to Announcing the Kingdom by Arthur Glasser that made me move the [...]
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Here is another excerpt from my favorite chapter of Searching For God Knows What by Donald Miller. In this section of chapter 10 Miller is discussing the dominant metaphors used to describe our relationship with God. He argues that many of the attempts we make to explain the gospel somehow miss this crucial relational dynamic. [...]
If the church takes seriously the fact that North America is now a mission field, this has tremendous implications for congregations. One of the most important implications is that many of the assumptions that have guided the development of the church over the past several centuries are now in need of critique and redefinition (e.g., [...]
One of the things I have always admired about Willow Creek Community Church is their willingness to question what they are doing and admit when something isn’t “working.” If you haven’t already heard about the Reveal Study I would recommend (when you have an extra 13 minutes) watching this short video by Greg Hawkins, Executive [...]
A Mile In My Shoes – Chapter 2
Posted: 19th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Books, Spiritual FormationComments Off
In chapter two of A Mile In My Shoes, Trevor Hudson talks about preparing for a pilgrimage by cultivating a pilgrim attitude. Developing such an attitude is not only crucial for a week long type of excursion illustrated by the Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope but it is equally important in our daily lives. Hudson [...]
God’s Missionary People
Posted: 18th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Ecclesiology, Missiology, MissionalComments Off
With increasing urgency pastors, missiologists, and theologians have called for redefining the Church’s nature, its mission, its reason for being, its relation to the Kingdom of God, and its calling in the world. It has become increasingly difficult to separate the “visible” from the “invisible,” the hope from the reality. These modern Bonhoeffers have convincingly [...]
A Mile In My Shoes – Chapter 1
Posted: 16th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Books, Spiritual FormationIn chapter one of “A Mile In My Shoes: Cultivating Compassion” Trevor Hudson describes the birth of a Pilgrimage of Pain and Hope, an eight day pilgrimage experience for his largely middle-class suburban congregation. Hudson describes it as an “immersion into the struggles and joys of our suffering neighbors.” Illustrating that Christian groups have not always approached [...]
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Over the weekend I finished reading A Mile In My Shoes by Trevor Hudson. The book is published by Upper Room Books. I really like this little book and plan to post on each of the six chapters over the next several days. Hudson serves on the pastoral team at Northfield Methodist Church in Benoni, South [...]
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Most of you are already familiar with Scot McKnight over at Jesus Creed but here is an interesting three part interview with McKnight posted by JR Woodward at Dream Awakener. McKnight on blogging – Part I McKnight on blogging – Part II McKnight on Jesus
The church is the bearer to all the nations of a gospel that announces the kingdom, the reign, and the sovereignty of God. It calls men and women to repent of their false loyalty to other powers, to become believers in the one true sovereignty, and so to become corporately a sign, instrument, and foretaste [...]
David Fitch on Missional Church Planting
Posted: 10th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Church Planting, Missional, New MonasticismHere is a very good post by David Fitch over at Reclaiming the Mission. If you are not familiar with Fitch he is author of The Great Giveaway and pastor of Life on the Vine. I have a short review of the book here. In this post Fitch discusses the struggles of planting missional communities and [...]
Thanks to Rick Meigs at Blind Beggar and Andy at not yet finished for the heads up on this video of Michael Frost at the Presbyterian Global Fellowship Conference in Houston. Frost argues that for a church to be missional means that mission must be the organizing principle of the church, and when you “step [...]
Spiritual Friendship – Part II
Posted: 8th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Spiritual Formation, Spiritual FriendshipFriends naturally enjoy intimate sharing. Friends make time to develop trusting relationships. Friends enjoy being in the company of each other. But then superimpose a Christian model of friendship over these qualities and you’ll get at least one more non-negotiable characteristic of Christian spiritual friendship: Spiritual friends help each other pay close attention to God. [...]