Check out these two challenging and inspiring talks by Micheal Frost from the recent Upstream Collective Vision Tour in Prague.
Archive for the ‘Lesslie Newbigin’ Category
The Church in a Broken World
Posted: 20th April 2011 by Brad Brisco in Church, Forge, Gospel, Incarnational, Justice, Kingdom of God, Lesslie Newbigin, Michael Frost, Missiology, Missional, Video1
Lesslie Newbigin’s “Walk Through the Bible”
Posted: 13th April 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Gospel, Lesslie Newbigin, ScriptureComments Off
Shortly before he died in 1998, Lesslie Newbigin recorded a series of eight radio programs on the basic themes and central characters in the Bible. Newbigin used his gift of story telling to present the grand narrative of Scripture — from Genesis through Revelation — in an accessible and engaging manner. I was excited to [...]
Newbigin on Missional Church
Posted: 16th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, Missional, TheologyThe folks at Forge Canada offer a concise summary of Newbigin’s view of missional community from The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: Newbigin distinguished between missions and mission. The church both “does mission” and “is a mission.” Missions are specific activities undertaken by a human decision to bring the gospel to places or situations where [...]
Pat Keifert on Missional Church
Posted: 15th March 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, Missiology, Missional, Prayer, Spiritual Formation, VideoHere is an interesting video dialog (produced/edited by Bill Kinnon) between Alan Roxbugh and Pat Keifert. They discuss a wide range of issues, including definitions/descriptions of missional church, common views of the contemporary church, and leadership in missional congregations. In the discussion on leadership I appreciate Keifert’s emphasis on leadership being more about time than [...]
Lesslie Newbigin Tribute
Posted: 8th December 2009 by Brad Brisco in Books, Dmin Project, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, MissionalToday Lesslie Newbigin would have been 100 years old. In honor of the centennial of his birth, Andy Rowell offers an interesting tribute here. For a little more on Newbigin’s influence you can also check out a couple of earlier posts I did here and here. Update: Two more links on Newbigin. First an article [...]
History of Missional Church – Part III
Posted: 8th November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Church, Lesslie Newbigin, Missiology, Missional, NetworksHistory of Missional Church – Part I History of Missional Church – Part II The Gospel and Our Culture Network As Newbigin’s writings gained a larger circulation and the British programme received greater recognition, a version of the Gospel and Our Culture conversation began to emerge in the United States. A network began to take [...]
History of Missional Church – Part II
Posted: 1st November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Books, Culture, Dmin Project, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, MissionalHistory of Missional Church – Part I The British Gospel and Culture “Programme” The British version of the Gospel and Culture movement was initiated by Newbigin in Britain during the 1980s and came to be known as a “programme.” Newbigin had been entrusted by the British Council of Churches with the task of planning a [...]
History of Missional Church – Part I
Posted: 26th October 2009 by Brad Brisco in Church, Dmin Project, Lesslie Newbigin, MissionalAs presented in an earlier post, Christianity in North America has experienced a move away from its position of dominance as it has witness the loss not only of numbers but of power and influence within society. “The United States is still, by all accounts, a very religious society. The pollsters affirm that Americans and [...]
Lesslie Newbigin and the GOCN
Posted: 17th December 2008 by Brad Brisco in Lesslie Newbigin, MissionalTags: GOCN, Lesslie Newbigin
In response to the last post on the history of the missional church conversation, Brian McLaughlin asked a great question regarding differences in the missional conversations that were taking place in the U.S. in the mid 1990s with those that were going on in the U.K. under the influence of Lesslie Newbigin. In other words, [...]
I have found Darrell Guder to be one of the most important voices in the missional conversation. In an excellent essay titled “The Challenges of Evangelization in America: Theological Ambiguities” Guder emphasizes the fact that mission is the definitive task of the church. Furthermore, Guder believes that any attempt to reclaim the missional calling of [...]
Hunsberger & Missional Faithfulness
Posted: 24th July 2008 by Brad Brisco in Church, Culture, Lesslie Newbigin, MissionalComments Off
All the clearest voices tell us that the corpus Christianum, the Constantinian arrangement, and the world of Christendom that guided our thinking about ourselves for 1500 years, is not coming back. Our habit of telling our Christian story always as a success story, the habit so ingrained in us by even these later years in [...]
In chapter twelve of David Bosch’s “Transforming Mission” he discusses the historical shifts in Protestant thinking regarding the relationship between church and mission. To fully understand these shifts Bosch argues one must consider the contributions made by the world missionary conferences from Edinburgh (1910) to Mexico City (1963). When discussing the Willingen conference (1952) Bosch writes: [...]
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 [...]