The emerging Church chat is on again — in about an hour. Just send me an msn message to phil [at] signposts [dot] org [au] Looking forward to seeing you.

Solid Church has built distinct compartments for worship, mission and other networks and it is this that I believe is the key issue. If our understanding of conversion is one of a line being crossed at a certain point in time then our church structures will be formed by this understanding. Journeys of faith have […]

Excerpts from an interview, mark 1:
PM, good morning.
Good morning
Do you understand the national anger at the culture of violence that has taken the life of David Hookes, and the view being that David Hookes is just a metaphor for this wider and insidious national problem – that violence is in the ascendance and violence is […]

Blogger now incorporates an xml feed, even for those with sites published on blogspot. So there is now no excuse for not having a valid feed that I can use to subscribe your site to my rss reader. Gohere for instructions.
Thanks to hot buttered death for the heads up.

Liquid Church emphasises fluidity and flexibility. It has a vision for multiple connecting points rather than a regular central cell structure. So, how will unity and identity be expressed in liquid church? Ironically, maybe the mega Church with its diverse offering of services can assist in this. Larger Churches cannot express their unity and identity […]

A thoughtful article in the Australian examines the question of the detention of “illegal combatants” at Guantanamo Bay.
The shocking thing about this is that debate even continues as to whether the courts or any other body has a right to determine the legality or otherwise of the detention of these prisoners. It is either […]

I have been reading Liquid Church by Pete Ward. Great book - innovative, bold and provocative. Over the next few days, I thought I would share some of my reactions both positive and negative. I would love to hear your thoughts on each one. Here is my first one and it has to do with […]

The blogger idol topic for this week led me to think of Phil’s post from the other day. In looking at new ways of being and doing church, often the greatest constraint on our freedom is our own expectations or habits. In the years that we have been working in churches, we have […]

Okay.. I am getting frustrated!
Prior to this whole blogging community thing I used to particpate in message board forums. I still do a little but I find myself more and more commenting on people’s blogs. In a forum it is very easy to keep track of a conversation thread and how people have engaged […]

A quick heads up to Other blog which has linked signposts as a foundation member of its blogroll. Seeing as the blog only started on Sunday, there is not a lot there yet, but some of the articles look interesting, so I am looking forward to seeing what it becomes.