What does it mean to be a transformative church? Two elements orient my overall purpose. A church is transformative when it engages in the development of people to better reflect the life of Christ in their lives and when this … Continue reading
Scott Cormode writes: We have all met new parents who vow that they will not make the same mistakes their own parents made. They will not raise their voices or indulge their children or succumb to whatever excess they saw … Continue reading
There’s a bit of a controversy, again, about a commercial submitted for the Super Bowl. Well, submitted as part of a competition, the winner of which will be aired during the Super Bowl. Last year, the controversy was the Tim … Continue reading
Fr. Richard Rohr spoke at Fuller last evening on the topic of Emerging Christianity. What’s interesting is my own studies on emerging theology have pushed me to study a lot of liberation theologies, much of which is found in Latin … Continue reading
The second part of my presentation on Emerging Churches: Living as Community With the emphasis on “identifying with Jesus” and “transforming secular space,” the third key practice is “living as community.” Gibbs and Bolger write that emerging churches “recognize that … Continue reading
So, I had another presentation for my ecclesiology class this past Tuesday. it was on a pretty familiar topic, however. I had to present on the book Emerging Churches by Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger. I’ve done a fair amount … Continue reading
Over at his blog, Scott Daniels — the pastor at First Church of the Nazarene of Pasadena (PazNaz) and the new dean of the school of theology at Azusa Pacific University — has a post on the death of the … Continue reading
This week there is a conversation going on about the idea of a “Big-Tent Christianity”. I’ve decided to add my two or three cents not because I have some fully formed thoughts or have some kind of overarching motive. More … Continue reading
At the Society of Pentecostal Studies conference early last month, one of the biggest questions we got after our presentations had do with whether an emerging church systematic theology could even be developed. That challenge is something still to be … Continue reading
Over the last couple of decades the church in the West has been going through a significant transition away from established assumptions of Christendom in which there are cultural expectations of church involvement. Indeed, this realization has arisen long after … Continue reading
