missiology
Def: Actualization Space
I just got off the phone with Sally Morganthaler learning a ton about the journey from her book Worship Evangelism (a book critiquing the performance based worship of seeker churches in the 80s) through leadership coaching, and back again to worship as the ritualized space of mission. While talking we coined a phrase “actualization space.” [...]
Church Target Practice
Neighbors aren’t targets, or are they? Many churches have “started” or “grown” in the past 30 years by carefully studying marketers and doing demographic research determining their “target.” And yet targeting is a pretty scary notion in our neck of the ‘hood. In Georgia, it is estimated that 200-300 children are targeted for sexual exploitation [...]
Village emerging
This weekend I had the incredible privilege of joining 23 old and brand new friends to discern “What Emergent Village has been, who we were becoming, and how we are to cultivate this new form.” For back ground about the event you can visit the blog announcement at Emergent Village, and a list of participants [...]
