"Life on Life" leader mentorship

Scot McKnight has been doing a series of posts asking pastors to reflect back on what they would do differently if they could start all over again. My reply to his question is posted here. My point on the post, over at Scot’s blog, is that “one on one,” “life on life” leadership mentorship was [...]

WTWNC Looking for the poor in the Suburbs: Ten ways to engage mission in the suburbs.

When They Will Not Come” (WTWNC) names the social dilemma of the church in post Christendom when we can no longer assume non-Christians will come to church even when they are seeking God. This new cultural condition forces us to change the way we think about every aspect of the church. WTWNC is a series [...]

More on Obama, Zizek, Wright and the church in America

Always willing to stir up a little more trouble for myself, I posted over at church-and-pomo blog concerning Zizek, Barak Obama, Jeremiah Wright and the American church. For those of you interested in such things, you can find the post here.

The Emerging/Missional Church – "They don’t have converts" Why Mark Driscoll Misses the point

Thanks to Brother Maynard, I caught this vintage Mark Driscoll remark(as transcribed here.)
“And all the nonsense of emerging, and Emergent, and new monastic communities, and, you know, all of these various kinds of ridiculous conversations – I’ll tell you as one on the inside, they don’t have converts. The silly little myth, the naked emperor [...]