Stephen Said links up an interesting free ebook in pdf format. It is called THE  SPONTANEOUS EXPANSION OF THE CHURCH And the Causes Which Hinder It by Roland Allen. I haven’t read it yet but have downloaded it for a read on a rainy day.

::Free Stuff!
Hey all, Al Hirsch sent me this book which […]

Some more mDNA soup for you!
In Primal Dreams, Alan Hirsch suggests a paradigm of leadership. This paradigm includes the following elements; Stories and myths, symbols, power structures, organizational structures, control systems, rituals and routines. The thesis that all
missional movements have a set of characteristics in common is also compelling. The leadership elements and the characteristics
of […]

The greenman has made some remarks about whether the Church is too feminine. He also goes on to make some disparaging remarks about me too

Anyone who has met Phil of Signposts , and more recently of GeekyInfo, could not accuse him of being on the girly side. He is not exactly petite or femine […]

Time for another mDNA episode?
Alan Hirsch argues that any time the Church has had an effect on its social environment in which it was operating there was always an apostolic nature to the leadership and the environment that they created. What does this mean? In his first book the shaping of things to come, […]

Originally posted at Hamo’s blog is a paper authored by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost. The paper is titled “A forge response to Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church”.
This paper has caused quite a stir around the blogsphere. I would like to suggest that it is important to read Alan Hirsch’s comment over at Tallskinnykiwi, […]

Another installment of the mDNA reflection:
What is a congregation?
In the development of our multi-congregational approach, we needed to answer a number of fundamental questions. One of the first tasks was to identify how we defined a congregation. In order to become the body of Christ, as the apostle Peter challenges us to be, we need […]

Some more from my essay reflecting on the missional impulse mDNA component of Alan Hirsch’s model and how it relates to nccc… for your boredom
There is no doubt that the missional impulse is at the very heart of the nccc story, beginning with the decision to merge the four churches. For some, this was […]

Ross from less travelled alerted me to this article, which is pretty challenging to those (such as ourselves sometimes) who are tempted to assess our own church and mission endeavours along traditional criteria.
The article details a Monday night casual gathering centred around music, community and sharing discussion - the sort of model that […]

Another snippet from my recent essay:
David Clark, professor of Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota is quoted by Webber when he writes:

The best way to be effective is to care little for success. The best way to be a
transforming leader is to care more about what is in your hearts than what we
accomplish. When we […]

Found this commentary from Leighton interesting about the five-fold ministry, also referred to as the APEPT model. This is a critique of the model which I link to because some of these ideas have certainly been incorporated fairly strongly into some emerging church models, including the ones that Phil has been writing about in […]