At the up and coming national forge summit called ‘Dangerous Stories’, I am running a workshop stream on

Remissionalizing an Established Church: The Stories of NCCC and Urban Life Centre

Many of us work in existing churches but are deeply inspired by the idea of missional church. The reality however might be significantly at odds […]

Now podcasting 
 Along with CBC Radio, MSNBC, ABC and a lot of other people, I am now podcasting at www.jordoncooper.com/podcasts/. You can sign up for the RSS feed here which will allow you download and play my feeds in iPodder or programs like that. I created a different blog to host my podcasts on. If you […]

I met with a Church yesterday. Two elders and the newly appointed minister. They had come to look at our newly renovated warehouse and to hear about our journey of creating diverse congregations and missional teams over the last five years.
The new minister is pretty talented. He has a background in community services work and […]

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I was inspired by this post by Dan Kimball over at Vintage Faith:

I was reminded in looking at what was happening in the early New Testament church in Corinth at that time period and why this letter was written:

- crazy arguments among church members and sinful things happening among church members, sexual, drunkenness, jealousy, pride […]

Roy who did the communion input today at our blended congregation led with two thought provoking questions:

What is more scary or challenging to us – war or love?
Do we as humans really want to be in a fully realised relationship with God and all that this would mean?

They made me think so much I can’t […]

My notebook computer died on the way back from Western Australia. Not sure why but it has been a good friend – so, rest in peace good friend. If you would like to know about my journey and thought process of choosing a new computer, you can check it out here, over at my other […]

At most of our newer congregation expressions at Northern sharing a meal is a big focus. I love this! I find that when I share food and drink with people that I connect at a deeper level. There is something about the meal time that allows conversation to flow and for people to open up […]