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Category Archives: Missional
Stewarding Money – Maria’s story
In the last year, our church community has started a venture called The Money Clinic. It isn’t a debt counselling service, but rather a place for budget coaching and money education. An analogy that helped me when we setting this … Continue reading
Thought for the Day
“One of my mentors once told me that the measure of a religion in a pluralistic society is the breadth and depth of benefits it brings to its non-adherents.” Brian McLaren in recent Blog Post
Rivers in Manchester
This weekend, I was invited to Ivy Cottage Church in South Manchester to preach on Sunday morning. It was great to be with some old friends (Lynn Swart is now based there and I have know Frank and Debra Green … Continue reading
Incarnate 2007: Session 2 – N T Wright
Fantastic! It could of course been that the Bishop of Durham, N T Wright, was saying a lot of what I have been trying to articulate in the Missional Series I have been blogging about. Whatever, Tom Wright was brilliant. … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Missional, Social Justice
Tagged Conferences, Gospel, NT Wright, Social Justice
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Incarnate 2007 – First session: Steve Chalke
See previous post for information about the conference. Steve was doing the first session of the conference, speaking from Acts 10. I have not heard Steve talk live, but he tall and charismatic … not in the spiritual gifts sense … Continue reading
Mission and Development – Part 4
Last week was bit manic, so not much blogging going on. I have kept my emails down to 2 though! And have been finishing some counselling essays (and I thought I wouldn’t be doing any more essays when I finished … Continue reading
Mission and Development – part 3
Each Sunday, I am posting one (of 10) theological thesis, from a paper written by Steve de Gruchy, about how mission and social justice or development can be integrated. Often in the church it has been an “either / or”, … Continue reading
Mission and Development – Part 2
“What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 So here’s part 2 of a paper that I am reproducing every Sunday over 10 weeks. For the introduction to … Continue reading
Posted in Missional, Social Justice
Tagged Development, Mission, Mission Dei, Shalom, Social Justice
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Mission and Development – Part 1
I have been sent a fascinating “paper” by Neil, who thought I might be interested in it following on from the posts on Missional Church, (which I intend to finish this week!). He was right! The paper is from the … Continue reading