So we just walked out on the jetty it was covered in bird poop. Now there is lunch olympics and pirates dice happening. I love laid back trips like this.
Archive | August, 2008
Today and This Week
10 AugToday I have the privilege of preaching in our morning services. I’ve got a double header this week and next week. Talking about Genesis 41, Joseph and Pharaoh. I’ll post video later.
Then right after church we are taking the youth group to OCEAN SHORES!!! Woot! We are getting away for a few days. Instead of camp with the network this we opted to do our thing. which will be fun. I hope to see relationships strengthened this week between some of our older and younger students. So that’s what I’ll be up to.
The Shaping of Things to Come -Review
5 Aug
I’ve been meaning to read Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost’s The Shaping of Things To Come, for quite a while now. I actually purchased it from a book store in La Conner, where the owner had taken to heart the missional incarnational approach to ministry, that this book talks about.
Frost and Hirsch are proposing that the way that we have done church for the past 1500 years, is not going to work in our current post-Christendom era. They then go to give examples of new ways that people are trying to reach their communities. Including a church planter who started a shoe store in hopes of one day starting a church with the people who are buying shoes from the store. Or coffee shops that provide a place for forum’s where people can build community and discuss ideas. (That’s what the nextchapter.com was doing in La Conner).
Frost and Hirsch also talked about the different types of leaders that will be necessary to keep the church moving forward in this new era. The Christendom model of church was attractional and assumed that people should come to us for all things religious. But the New Testament model of Church was Go Out with the Gospel. The types of leaders that thrived in Christendom were the pastor/teachers. Frost and Hirsch advocate that we start to build churches around the Apostle/Prophet/Evangelist/Pastor/Teacher model.
It would be unwise to say that the church doesn’t need to change. And Frost and Hirsch provide a lot of great ideas for how the church could change. I would recommend this for anyone contemplating a church plant. It might give you some great ideas on what your church could be instead of doing the same old thing.
I think this was a very helpful book, and I started reading it before I knew that it would be one of my texts for school. So Yippee, I got this one done and out of the way.
Too Much Incoming Stuff
4 AugThis post from Seth Godin is great. He’s nailed it. Today has felt very much like it’s all incoming information, and not just from my email.
I actually am working on only checking my email once or twice a day. But it’s the phone calls, it’s the meetings, it’s the radio when I’m driving, there seems to be just too much information flying at me all the time.
How do you filter out your overwhelming information?
Great Post on the Shack and it’s Author
1 AugI appreciated the Shack for it’s display of the relationship between the trinity. It’s a book that has brough a lot of healing to a lot of souls. It’s controversial, and I get a lot of comments from people who don’t see the potential for grace in this text.
Today I read this post from Bob.Hyatt, who had a chance to interact with Paul Young. Great post. All you shack haters please read it. It might stop the hating, if you hear from the source.
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