Posted by Dyfed on Wednesday, January 4, 2012,
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I’m hoping to be a bit more
focussed in my blogging this year so regular readers will notice some changes.
The first change will be fewer posts. Rather than the five posts a week I will
only aim to fill three slots – though if I feel I have something to say about
an issue then you may well see additional posts. These three slots (Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Fridays) will have a particular focus each week and will
reflect my current reading, research and thinking.
Mondays
On Mondays my aim is t... Continue reading ...
Nobody likes the taxman. But
don’t let that be a sufficient analogy as you read the account of Jesus calling
Matthew as a disciple. Think instead of losing the Battle of Britain, of a Nazi
occupation of the UK, and of your hard-earned money going off to pay for the
Third Reich’s ever increasing empire. Taxmen now wear jackboots and have armed
guards accompanying them. A little different to our current situation.
Just what was Jesus thinking
when he called this most despised of men into his... Continue reading ...
‘Emerging
church’ is a term that is currently in vogue in the developed, western world.
It is a broad term covering a wide variety of beliefs and practices but it is
at its heart a movement of reform within the church. As with any reform
movement within any organisation no one knows where it will all end up or how
much reform will really take place. Those who find themselves walking with this
movement often appear theologically rudderless and, therefore, lacking in direction.
All they fee...
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Bishop Tom Wright’s book Surprised by Hope seems to be proving
popular among a younger generation of Christians. I read it two or three years
ago and was deeply challenged. Not that there’s anything new in it, of course,
but it was for me quite a revelation and was the starting point for the
theological reassessment that I am on.
Resurrection
For those of you who haven’t
read it, it’s a book about resurrection – for you, me, and the whole creation.
Wright builds his thesis on the foun... Continue reading ...
What model of church do you follow
in your church? There are two basic types which I can think of: there’s the ‘church
as bus’ model and then there’s the ‘church as body’. Now we know which the New
Testament model is – it is ‘church as body’. Paul in his first letter to
Corinthians makes this very clear and gives a lengthy teaching on it. We would
all probably claim that this is also the model w... Continue reading ...
John Piper has apparently had a go at Emerging Church. In this post, Andrew Jones provides a response. Well worth a read. Continue reading ...
Yesterday I was down in Llanelli for
a meeting with the German prophet, Michael Schiffmann, and the leadership of Antioch along with a couple from Cardiff. I suppose we’re all very much fellow
travellers along the emerging church route, though at different stages – with me
some distance behind!
Michael shared some his own journey
and thoughts about emerging church and about where church in general has not
been fulfilling her... Continue reading ...
Ben and Cath Taylor are doing church differently. Read their thoughts at their blog here. Continue reading ...
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