Okay, the comments on this thread are out of control, and I think are contributing to our abnormally high traffic rate as everyone keeps reloading close to a thousand comments. So, if you please, those that wish to continue the conversation, please do so on this thread.
To get you started, a musing […]

Jesus took the command to love our neighbor as we love ourselves, and pushed the definition of who is our neighbor, out, out, and still further out, until it reached to the ends of the earth and included all of humanity—all of God’s children.
Because Jesus’ teachings are so challenging and radical, it is much more […]

My thoughts on another great book that I have recently read. Destined to go on my list of books I recommend to Phil to read because of the messages that they have about mission and ministry but which he never reads because they don’t contain enough gunfire.
Blaise Meredith is a priest in the service […]

Continuing our look at mDNA - communitas not comminity and how it applies to Northern Community. The other posts in the mDNA series are here
Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk’s three zone diagram is very helpful in considering these challenges.
 
Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk write:
 
The Three Zone Model … visualizes the organizational cultures congregations and […]

An interesting article in the Australian newspaper describes the attempt of some churches to launch a advertising program designed to put the cool back into Jesus. There are some great lines in the article – particularly the one about findind sitting in Church as appealing as a AA meeting.

“ANGUS Kinnaird has advised some big brands […]

This is a great story about Jesus healing a demon-possessed man and sending the demons into a herd of pigs. I won’t quote anything because you should go and read it.

So I went to Word today in a bit of a search for Christian stuff to give away for this thread. People must buy some whacky stuff. The bumper stickers were slightly amusing, but not really the level of kitsch that I was after - “Got Jesus?”, “Boycott Hell”, “I was dead once. […]

Last week at our Tangent congregation we had a new person walk in. She was checking out what we do as part of some research she was doing for her Church.
When I welcomed her, she said - “I am just going to observe if that is ok”
I replied that “she was welcome to stay and […]

Continuing our look at mDNA - communitas not comminity and how it applies to Northern Community. The other posts in the mDNA series are here
When has Northern experienced this?
Hirsch observes that in the early stages of South Melbourne Restoration Church communitas was vividly experienced. At Northern we also experienced communitas most vividly in the […]

Matt Glover, a regular commenter on signposts has emailed me about a series of posts he is doing on his blog. The posts will look at the issues and Matt’s reflections that arise out of Steve Biddulph’s book called Manhood.
I encourage you to check it out and contribute to the discussion over at Matt’s blog.