How about a few signposters head on over to Ascot Vale and support our rev who is launching a new missional initiative with Ascot Vale Church of Christ
GRAND OPENING
the CAVE
Churches of Christ Ascot Vale Experiment
PLEASE JOIN US MAY 21st 7PM
FOR A TIME OF WORSHIP AND CELEBRATION AS WE BEGIN OUR EXPERIMENT
Caves […]

I have been asked to speak at a conference called ‘virtual church’
It is a one day conference: 29 June 2006, Melbourne which will likely be held at Northern Community Church of Christ. Their web site blurb introduces the conference as:
“Internet · email · SMS · blogs · podcasts—new communication technologies are changing the way we […]

Sojourners has an interview with Brian McLaren about the Da Vinci Code. To see the whole thing, free sign up here. Whilst saying that the book is fiction, he seems to say that it is revealing of a yearning for a new image of Jesus:
I think a lot of people have read the […]

Greg the explorer sent me a link to this article which seems concerned to put several nails in the coffin of the emerging church:
In the UK, a nudist beach mission has just finished in Wales. Graceway, a church in Auckland, New Zealand, encouraged its members to ‘pray with your hand around a cup of coffee’ as […]

At our recent leadership group meeting (which for us is our key governance leadership body), I posed the question - what are we trying to do as a Church? We asked each member of the group to spend some time reflecting individually and writing down their responses. The only qualification I made was that I […]

This creed by Brian McLaren was posted up in this thread by Nilmot.
The Jesus Creed
This creed was originally shared at the Emergent Convention, Nashville, May 2004.
By Brian McLaren
We have confidence in Jesus
Who healed the sick, the blind, and the paralyzed.
And even raised the dead.
He cast out evil powers and
Confronted corrupt leaders.
He cleansed the temple.
He favored […]

Emergent as an organisation have are increasingly needing to deal with critics. One issue that seems to be big is the issue of whether emergent should have a document that outlines a set of beliefs. Emergent have responded to this in their latest email newsletter by resisting such suggestions.
In my opinion, which is very […]

Forge Victoria present - POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE with KEN BLUE.
The missional enterprise of God.
When: Wednesday the 10th of May. 7:30pm.
Who: One of the original founders of the Vineyard church and part of John Wimbers original team.
Ken is a church planter, leading writer, pastor and business consultant.
He is an innovative prophetic leader to the […]

We have been given permission to post the entire text of the article about Hillsong which appeared in the Weekend Australian and which quotes Geoff Bullock heavily. There is some discussion about the article happening in this thread. In the interests of keeping all the comments together, I am going to close comments […]

Greg the explorer (who recently celebrated a birthday - check out the comments on that thread, by the way) pointed me to this short article:
St Paul’s in Paraparaumu says any church which tries to put on a choral work including the Muslim call to prayer is going to run into problems.
A choir due to sing […]