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Ross Daws has a stimulating post on how that the way we view church history impacts our theology.
He writes:

One of the factors that most subtly affects our theology is our approach to church history. Different approaches to church history can often be found beneath the surface of many criticisms leveled at the emerging church; this […]

Somehow interesting stuff seems to happen on Sunday mornings as we are driving back from our weekender before church (like this adventure). Maybe it is the fact that we are up early and driving a long way, but things just seem to strike us as amusing. Oh, and you should understand that Phil […]

I am doing some pre-thinking for my next masters essays and would like to enlist your help.
Do you know of any revitalisation or remissionalisation programs for churches?
I know of Natural Church Development by Christian Schwarz and Alan Roxburgh’s process that my own denomination is doing.
Do you know of any more?

Lionfish, a regular commenter at signposts has doing some comparasion work in this thread with AMWAY and the contemporary church typified by Hillsongs and others. He has taken it the next step and wonders if the contemporary church is actually a heightened AMWAY program.
He writes: Imagine if

“…some slick pragmatic operators were to grab hold of […]

One of Brian McLaren’s early book — perhaps even his first, was a book called ‘the church on the other side’. It was a book about how to lead a church in this Christdom era and the many challenged that it brings. I found the book to be wonderful and even now dip back into […]

We are exploring the mDNA component -disciple-making or discipleship from Alan Hirsch’s forthcoming book and how it applies to Northern Community. The other posts in the mDNA series are here
Approaches to disciple-making (continued)
Benedictine tradition
The middle ages marked a dangerous period of history for the Christian Church. The structure of Roman society that had provided […]

David, who is the editor of sightmagazine has put up an interview with me (Phil). If you are interested in such things head on over and check it out here
Make sure you browse around the rest of the online magazine.

The Alban institute have an interesting article on the elements of Discipleship written by Jeff Jones. I am tempted to get a copy of the book as I particularly like this emphasis:

Ministering is about involvement. It is our participation in God’s mission of redeeming all creation. The gifts we have, the call we receive, the […]

We are exploring the mDNA component -disciple-making or discipleship from Alan Hirsch’s forthcoming book and how it applies to Northern Community. The other posts in the mDNA series are here
Approaches to disciple-making
The church has used a number of approaches to disciple-making in the past, which Northern may be able to learn from and adapt […]