Here 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 [...]
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David Fitch on Missional Church Planting
Posted: 10th October 2007 by Brad Brisco in Church Planting, Missional, New Monasticism2
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In chapter one, titled “Relocation to Abandoned Places of Empire” Margaret McKenna discusses the need to create new expressions of relocation. She asks what forms could the classical desert take in the world of the twenty-first-century? Here is a bit of her description: The following desert-inspired ingredients seem to influence their development: God-seeking and prayer [...]
Along with a couple of friends I have been reading “School(s) for Conversion: 12 Marks of a New Monasticism” edited by The Rutba House. Those involved in this writing project believe there is a radical grassroots movement within the North American church which they referred to as a “new monasticism.” While the movement is diverse [...]