As soldiers we cut a pretty big covenant (read it here). Covenant is becoming pretty big these days in the wider church…there are neo-monastic missional orders springing up all over the place. For example, the Order of the Mustard Seed originally began by the great Moravian prayer warrior, Count Zinzendorff and more recently revived through … More Articles of War
9. I believe that covenant is the only hope of avoiding the international fragmentation of The Army within 20 years. Firstly, let me say that there is a load of good writing on covenant floating around…armybarmy and Journal of Aggressive Christianity in particular. So I’m not going to present a case here. I’m simply going … More Affirmations #9 Covenant
Well, thankfully it seems like internet is behaving if ever so briefly. So, here goes for the first post in about a month…takes a while to get back in the swing of things after such a long gap! Its been fun adjusting to a new style of ministry again. For example, other than when covering … More Back! (…..I hope!)
I went to the doctors a couple of weeks ago to have a medical done so that I can drive our minibus here at the corps. I just, only just, passed it because my eyesight, without my glasses on, is only just on the required figure. “Your vision is only just good enough” said the … More Vision
I reckon that most people who know me well would know that I am very unlikely to resign as a Salvation Army officer. There are tonnes of reasons for this. This posting also offers some added info to the last post because I’m picking up that people are perhaps getting unclear messages from my cryptic … More On Covenant and Officership…
The next two installments of the Articles of War preaching series are now online at armyrenewal.com under the ‘charismatic’ section. Article 2 Article 3 (by Captain Tracy Clark)
The Lord has laid on my heart that we should aim for 10 new soldiers and 20 junior soldiers by Christmas 2008. What does this involve? It will involve deeper discipleship and decisions for some of the people on our fringes, it will involve soldiership being portrayed in a different light for some, it will … More Give us faith for souls
I read this on Eleanor Burne-Jones’ blog, and I have no way to contact her directly so will do so here. She writes this: So far as I understand it, and I am still trying to get this clarified, as a soldier in the Salvation Army I have no right to be discipled, mentored or … More Misrepresentation
Back in May 2004 I wrote the following on soldiership…it relates well to the last post.____________________________________________________ So Major Chick Yuill was talking to us about Leadership yesterday. We were discussing the whole post-modern effect and how it impacts on people’s ideas about joining things and being committed to things. Obviously in The Salvation Army, our … More More on Soldiership
Now…you can normally jig a merry dance around me when I am asleep and I’d be none the wiser. I normally sleep like a baby (whatever that means!). But here I am at 3am wakened. I’ve been asleep for three hours, but then Ben wakes and moans about something, Tracy gets up to check him, … More Insomnia Attack
Andrew S M Clark 