I’m a passionate follower of Jesus. I love his church. I long to see his Kingdom come, his will be done. We live in a world where the church is facing massive challenges as it seeks to engage in the 21st century. We live in a world where around 85% of people will simply not … More The Big Vision
The revolutionary plan is being drafted. It is almost ready to be published on Wednesday 18th June at 3pm. This is BIG. Watch this space.
As I prepare to begin my MA in Mission (Celtic Mission and Spirituality) course in the autumn of this year, I’m starting to think towards the big D….the dissertation. Although I haven’t had any formal conversation with the college yet, my current thoughts are to make a study of Celtic New Monasticism…in particular, what role … More Renewal of the Church?
‘Unless there is a still centre in the middle of the storm, unless a person in the midst of all their activities preserves a secret room in their heart, where they can be alone before God, then they will lose all sense of spiritual direction, and be torn to pieces.’ – Kallistos Ware I came … More Secret Room
The biggest barrier to engaging in mission of any sort is disconnection. 1. Disconnection from God. God doesn’t go far, its one of the things he can’t do. He is in everything, we cannot escape his presence. We, however, are very good at failing to connect with the presence of God, the Divine. Don’t beat … More Disconnection
It strikes me more and more that we need to live to keep alive, daily, the question of ‘who is Jesus to me today?’ The old maxim says ‘the Jesus you see will dictate the Christian you will be.’ Some people look at the bible and see a homophobic, judgemental, racist, critical and condemnatory Jesus. … More Woe!
I’ve been exploring a contemplative way of reading the bible of late on occasions and yesterday I had the opportunity to spend some time in Mark 8: 27 – 33. This is the occasion when Jesus is on the way to Caesarea Philippi with the disciples and we hear something of the conversation on the … More Dance!
I’ve written a little bit over the last year on this as I’ve been developing the practice of ‘silence.’ That is, having times in my day/week/month/year dedicated to being quiet, to stilling the mind, create space and to breathe a bit in the midst of all the stuff that comes. This sort of stuff, this … More Silence
Today I was simply thrilled to sit in a room with Methodist pioneer and Fresh Expression workers and just hear some fantastic stories of what God was doing on what is still probably the fringes of the Methodist Church, although becoming much more central. So many of the stories evoked precious memories of situations, places, … More Fresh Stories
So, it is fairly easy to attract a crowd…put on a decent show, the right supportive programmes, be nice, and set the bar fairly low. Sure, there are some prerequisites in there…you need enough people to put on a decent show, the right programmes and a few folks to be nice, but by and large, … More Discipleship III
Andrew S M Clark 