At the conclusion of the day seminar that I ran in Perth, Hamo asked every participant to give a sentence or a phrase that they would go home with. Something that had stuck in their mind or that they had been particularly challenged by.
I wrote some of them down:
BeginKingdom of God is active – […]

I really enjoyed my trip to Western Australia.
It was great to be able to ‘see’ the backyards that Hamo is a missionary to. Well, maybe I didn’t see many backyards but I did have a good couple of walks around the Brighton estate. Hamo and Danelle were wonderful hosts and even cooked me the […]

I had coffee with Alan today. Great conversation and wonderful coffee!
We were talking about the distinctives of the emerging church. Is it, as Alan asked me, simply this post-modern generation working out what it means to live the gospel in this time and place?
Good question I reckon!
You know I really want to say that there […]

As some of you would know, Steve Taylor of emergent kiwi fame has completed a phd dissertation on the emerging Church. I actually own a copy but I need to admit that I have only dipped into it – sorry Steve. However, Steve’s book – out of bounds church is largely a layman’s rewrite of what […]

Glen Thornley has created a discussion forum for the emerging church called  Aussie Emergentcy
Glen explains the aim of Aussie Emergentcy as:

“The Traditional Church in most (if not all) of the western world is in crisis! It is an Emergency of the most urgent nature.
The status quo will no longer do! Attendance figures accross the board […]

One of my guilty pleasures is the fiction of Ayn Rand, in particular The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. It’s a guilty pleasure because I find that Rand’s philosophical principles half-baked and potentially dangerous, but nonetheless, there are few books of a thousand pages or so that I will happily re-read over and over. […]

Tomorrow, I fly over to Western Australia to run a one day seminar for Forge WA. The seminar will describe some of the struggles and highlights of nccc journey in attempting to be a Church that has different congregations connecting with a diverse range of people and subgroups. I will also be catching up with […]

I have these in my notes from the recent seminar with Alan Roxburgh. Forgive me Alan, you probably didn’t say it exactly like this, but I am sure I have captured the main essence.
“These bones - can they live again?
It is the breath of God that gives them new life.
It is the wind that you […]

A friend and I were talking over lunch the other day and he mentioned somebody with the accompany tag - “a liberal”. It interested me because his definition seemed to be different to the way I have heard it used mainly in the past.
Yet in thinking about it, I realised that he is the second […]

I believe it to be a great mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense in it…. We cannot blink at the fact that gentle Jesus meek and mild was so stiff in his opinions and so inflammatory in his language that he was thrown out of church, stoned, hunted from […]