a pastor in Austin
From the category archives:
Chris Marlow is a friend here in Austin. (In fact, he’s about seven feet away from me right now.) I think I will even continue to call him friend after he moves to Raleigh at the end this month.
A few days ago, he posted the interview below with author/activist Tom Davis. You can read more [...]
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Last week, I mentioned the value of expanding our celebration and reflection of Easter beyond a few hours on Sunday morning. For those traditions that follow the church calendar, the celebration of Easter goes on for six weeks until Pentecost.
Christine Sine has developed another excellent resource — this time it’s a guide for reflecting [...]
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For the next few days, I’ll be taking part in the Ecclesia Network National Gathering. We’ve set up a LiveBlog which will be updating with content from a handful of participants. Feel free to listen in.
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missional leadership is a creative art. It calls for leaders to create from within themselves, allowing the Spirit of God to make room in their lives to facilitate the writing of a new story. The leader is not the author of this new story. This is God’s story that is realized as the people of [...]
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my new version of what the Bible is about reads as follows: it is about the mystery by which the power of God works to form this world into the Holy City, the New Jerusalem that comes down out o heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.” — Robert Farrar Capon [...]
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To organized opposition [Jesus] responds with the formal founding of a new social reality. New teachings are no threat, as long as the teacher stands alone; a movement, extending his personality in both time and space, presenting an alternative to the structures that were there before, challenges the system as no mere words ever could.” [...]
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I hold an ever growing conviction that to follow the Way of Jesus is to participate in bringing about the Kingdom of God wherever you see it is at work. Of course that happens through intentional church ministries, but the kingdom of God is not limited to that.
One example of this would be Twestival:
On 12 [...]
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In November, N.T. Wright gave a series of talks at the Harvard University Graduate Student Christian Fellowship entitled Reconstructing Hope. Here’s a link to each talk:
Why Do Good in a Hopeless World?
What is Good in a World that Defies Hope?
Doing Good: What Plus Hope Equals Change?
I appreciated the content of the lectures, but what [...]
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we are inoculating the world with a mild form of Christianity, so that it is now practically immune against the real thing. Vast areas of the Christian world are inoculated with a mild form of Christianity, and the real thing seems strange and impossible.” — E. Stanley Jones (80 years ago) in The Christ of [...]
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the ethic envisioned by the New Testament writers is not an impossible ideal. If we fail to live in obedient responsiveness to their moral vision, that is because of a failure of imagination — or perhaps a lack of courage — on our part.” — Richard Hays in The Moral Vision of the New Testament
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In my church planting journey, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in at least four different church planting boot camps. They were put on by four different organizations, so I feel like I’ve been around the block a little.
This morning I finished listening to Spirit-Led Ecclesiology: Following the Spirit Through Church Planting. It was a [...]
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The secret of leadership is simple: Do what you believe in. Paint a picture of the future. Go there.
People will follow.”
– Seth Godin in Tribes
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A fundamentalist is a person who considers whether a fact is acceptable to his religion before he explores it.” – Seth Godin in Tribes
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Some links that are worth a few moments of your valuable time:
My friend Zach put his iSight to good use and recorded an iChat interview with Rob Bell. There’s a lot of good banter about creativity and teaching. For your viewing convenience, Zach broke it down into part 1, part 2, and part 3. (For [...]
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I read this today, and it seemed rather timely…
There is no room for a political fanaticism that supposes that my political achievements will establish God’s kingdom, or declares a holy war against opponents, or tramples on individual human beings in the pursuit of a political millennium. The public political act has its real meaning simply [...]
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