David Bosch in his book Believing In The Future talks about the type of missionary thinking we need for our new context:
…mission refers to a permanent and intrinsic dimension of the church’s life…Because God is a missionary God, God’s people are missionary people…The church exists by mission, just as fire exists by burning…Mission is […]

We have just installed the latest version of spam karma. Hopefully, this will correct the problems we have been having with valid comments being trapped in spam purgatory or our moderation queue.
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Regular commenter Lance commented in a recent thread that he would like a response on the following statement. I thought it was worthy of its own thread.
“I’m stuck on something.
I’m so used to acting another role in order to fit in as the ‘heterosexual’ at church and the Christian ministry where I worked, and before […]

Margaret Wheatley writes in her book - Leadership and the New Science.

“I believe that we have only just begin the process of discovering and inventing the new organisational forms that will inhabit the twenty-first century. To be responsible inventors and discoverers, we need the courage to let go of the old world, to relinquish most […]

Just a quick note to say sorry to those of you that have had some false positives and been blocked by our spam software in recent weeks. We are generally very happy with our spam plug in. On occasion when there have been problems, we have switched it off, and been required to […]

A while ago, Phil and I had discussed this post from the rev about witnessing a fight on the side of the road as he was driving past and deciding to intervene. We were impressed by his courage and spontaneous response, but even more by a writer who casually includes sentences in a blog […]

I have almost completed my essay on the next two mDNA components (organic systems and communitas not community) and I will post up some installments shortly.
My next essay will look at the mDNA component of disciple making.
In commencing some reading for the essay, I stumbled across this quote in a little book by Alan Roxburgh […]

Things are being reorganised around the signposts family this week as phil takes some downtime for a while. We can’t quite figure out whether this site counts as work or play for phil, but he will be around. Please be aware that emails may not be answered promptly in the coming weeks. […]

Okay, the comments thread of one of our posts on the Australian Story show about Brian and Bobbie Houston has turned into (another) debate about homosexuality and sexual impurity. I quote some comments to help you resume the debate. Please keep your comments on this issue to this thread so as not to […]

Justin over at Radical Congruency has posted up some interesting thoughts and challenges the church to organise itself like an aggregator rather than a congregation.
Aggregation: The process of making a composite of things from many different sources or areas.
Congregation: A local church, gathered together.
As the church adapts to the changes of postmodernism and the 21st […]