More from Brian McLaren:

In the modern era you could get a A in orthodoxy but an F in praxis

Some random notes that I wrote at Tabor College on Tuesday and Thursday while listening to Brian McLaren.

“The challenge is not simply to change our minds but to change our lives.”
“There is no such thing as a pure gospel – the gospel must be incarnated into a culture”

With each era of history, the gospel must […]

Yes, we have been playing around again! Just to keep you on your toes and making sure you are awake.
All comments and criticisms in this thread.

Many of us like to discuss newspaper articles on signposts. If you send them to me (Phil) or Dan by email we will post them up so you can discuss them in their own thread.
Two pieces of news have been submitted by Lance and Jane.
Church Excommunicates 15 for Cult Membership.
THE Presbyterian Church has excommunicated all 15 […]

I received this email  from someone in our jeebus congregation at Northern

….when you rang today…my mum answered, well afterwards when she hung upthe phone something funny happened… my sister’s son was home (5yrs old)and he heard the whole conversation ‘No Timm’s not here etc etc” andafterwards he said “Grandma, Who was that?”
Mum : Oh that was just […]

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
This is the final post in this series. I will put the full three essays up in the resources section if anyone is interested as they […]

Well, its not finished yet and the content hasn’t been completed but you can now have a peek at our new Northern web site over here

Tim and Jay Jeffries are planting a new congregation at Northern called Loam. It is a congregation that is built around a misisonal team of creating a community garden.
Tim writes on his blog about the name Loam and says Loam is a rich fertile soil that is good for growing things in. Seems like a […]

Back in the dark days of my youth I went to Happening convention at Belgrave (think huge youth rally with bands and speakers - youth groups all went and camped there for a long weekend whilst being self-congratulatory about being “saved”), I remember a band called “Thrash Puppies” which had a number of very cool […]

I went to hear Brian McLaren at Tabor college today. One of the things he said stuck in my mind:
“how do we honour the reformers?
By faithfully repeating their formula?
Or by courageously following their example?”
Food for thought hey?