December 2009
2 posts
News article: Technology turning consumers into... →
This article is fascinating and has many implications for the church. The current church structure facilitates a consumer-friendly environment, allowing people to slip in the back at worship, relatively unknown, receive their goods and services, then leave without being forced to wrestle with the implications of the gospel in their lives. Essentially, our church has made consumers. Technology is...
Part 2 of the story of our missional community (a...
So here is the second half of our story at The Hill community at SMU:
Francis Chan ruined my life. I was at a conference in the Dallas area where Chan was speaking on leadership. He said something to the crowd that I will never forgive him for. Commenting on his journey the past few years, Francis Chan discussed his realization about the state of the type of ministry he was building. He said...
October 2009
2 posts
christianity: a marginal movement of discontinuity
I was planning for this post to continue the story of the last post, but I need to process through some things first (I also want to change the last post because my wife said it sounded cynical and bitter, which I am not; I love the church, I love this journey; I love how it started.) and will then continue the story.
I am thinking through a book called Metavista: Bible, Church and Mission in...
the beginning of our story...
I’ve never been good at long-term writing commitments. Between balancing full-time school, family, and ministry, I don’t really think about much else. But several friends have encouraged me to record my experience of establishing a practicing missional community at SMU (a postmodern bubble in the buckle of the bible belt in Dallas). So here it is…
The church I work for found...