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The Social Principles Word-Cloud
Image via Wikipedia A mission.hack is defined here. We look at mission statements or at mission initiatives and examine different ways of expressing them. Hacking them…if you will. Wordle is a...
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Can Your Jesus Love Porn Stars?
An important theological question to ask yourself is: “Are there people your Jesus shouldn’t be in the midst of?“ Can your Jesus hang out with gangsters? Can your Jesus be seen in a gay bar? Would...
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UMC Missional Statement
Image via Wikipedia “To Make Disciples of Jesus Christ for the Transformation of the World.” That’s the mission statement of the United Methodist Church. To me, then, this is a nice framework for the...
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Ministry: A Blind Imitation of the Past?
Today, Iowa became the fourth third state (sorry CA) to have marriage equality. Regardless of your opinions on the issue, there’s a hacking moment in the decision that is important for Churches to...
View Article“They don’t sell clothes; They sell dignity”
I was traveling with a wise elder minister. We drove through a town and saw two different churches side by side. The United Methodist church ran a clothing store where clothing was sold for .25 cents,...
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Open Hearts Lead to Open Doors (or vice versa?)
One of my seminary colleagues posted his new sign outside the Unitarian Church that he pastors in the UK. While the language is familiar to us Methodists, the punctuation is not. What do you see that...
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A "Go" movement in a "Take" world
My senior minister noted this past Sunday that Jesus is often sending people to do stuff. Sending disciples to get a donkey for the entrance to Jerusalem. Sending disciples to prepare the upper room...
View ArticleWhy Save Lives? They’ll just go hungry
My pastor in high school was Rev. David Stephenson, who is now a Reverse Missionary to Bolivia. On one of his many trips to the region, he sat next to someone who had the following conversation: I sat...
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Repost: “They don’t sell clothes, they sell dignity”
A pastoral colleague sent me an interview with Robert Lupton whose recent book Toxic Charity has some controversial elements in it, among them criticizing the one-way relationship charities often...
View ArticleThe Gutenberg and the Google World
From my day with Leonard Sweet that I blogged about last week, one of his base concepts is that the language of the church is changing. He calls the shift the most important since Gutenberg created the...
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Incarnational Ministry is not about you [mission.hack]
I really resonated with a blog post by Scot McKnight “Incarnation is not a Ministry Strategy” as he talks about how recent efforts to brand a ministry as “incarnational” water down the term. Read it...
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Tornado Relief: Different stages need different donations
I saw floating around FB a link to a NewsOK article (autoplay video warning) that talked about how not 100% of donations to the American Red Cross are guaranteed to go to Oklahoma. And this is a...
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Denominations are Dinosaurs, except when Disaster Strikes
When disaster strikes, we are reminded that we are better together. Photo: Creative Commons via DoD When disaster strikes. When disaster strikes in our hyper-connected world, the damage is not...
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Practicing God’s YES in a Culture of NO - Unity of Diversity must overcome a...
Unity of Diversity must overcome a Culture of Division The Complexity of God’s YES Scot McKnight, in his 2014 book A Fellowship of Differents writes about the basic premise of the Church is that God...
View Article“They don’t sell clothes; They sell dignity”
I was traveling with a wise elder minister. We drove through a town and saw two different churches side by side. The United Methodist church ran a clothing store where clothing was sold for .25 cents,...
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Open Hearts Lead to Open Doors (or vice versa?)
One of my seminary colleagues posted his new sign outside the Unitarian Church that he pastors in the UK. While the language is familiar to us Methodists, the punctuation is not. What do you see that...
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A "Go" movement in a "Take" world
My senior minister noted this past Sunday that Jesus is often sending people to do stuff. Sending disciples to get a donkey for the entrance to Jerusalem. Sending disciples to prepare the upper room...
View ArticleWhy Save Lives? They’ll just go hungry
My pastor in high school was Rev. David Stephenson, who is now a Reverse Missionary to Bolivia. On one of his many trips to the region, he sat next to someone who had the following conversation: I sat...
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Repost: “They don’t sell clothes, they sell dignity”
A pastoral colleague sent me an interview with Robert Lupton whose recent book Toxic Charity has some controversial elements in it, among them criticizing the one-way relationship charities often...
View ArticleThe Gutenberg and the Google World
From my day with Leonard Sweet that I blogged about last week, one of his base concepts is that the language of the church is changing. He calls the shift the most important since Gutenberg created the...
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