I found this good article (below) which presents the model of ‘open participatory meetings’ very well in a condensed version. Enjoy reading. I will do a midrash on it, adding my comments on it over the next week or so. Additionally, you might want to look at the follow up to ‘Pagan Christianty’ by Frank … More Participatory Church Meeting
Before resigning as a Salvation Army officer, I wrote a series of articles which were my reflections on leadership. If you read my previous blog, you may remember it. If not, you can read it here as it was published in this SA journal. It was a culmination of years of ‘working out’ the deep … More My shock
Every church, in essence, wants to do things ‘by the book’ (meaning the Bible). Yet, it is surprising that many of the ‘sacred cows’ we have in the church have little foundation in the New Testament at all. Here is a list (with help from Frank Viola and George Barna) of some of the post-biblical, … More Doing it by the Book?
Is Christianity merely an intellectual agreement with a set of propositional truths? Is it merely a warm tingly feeling and the presence of comfort and peace? is it building one’s life and diary around the activity of the church? Of course not. Having said that, I recently heard a man who had been representing … More Christianity Lite
As I already mentioned (was it here or facebook?), last Sunday 17th October was the 15 year anniversary of my conversion. Let me tell you a story…. Faith, God, church was never really a part of our upbringing and to be fair it wasn’t really a part of my parents upbringing either. My mum and … More The beginning
Ok, so I’m about as garbage at not blogging as I am at blogging. Massive failure on the not blogging front. Well, that lasted for a whole few days. Hmm. I was having a bad day! The simple problem is just the whole transition thing… I’m disorientated, bound to experience the odd bit of confusion … More Massive non-blogging failure
I need to confess that my passion for blogging has waned somewhat of late. Previously, a large part of my purpose in blogging was simply to add a voice to the Salvation Army blog scene with the dear hope of re-kindling something of a passion somewhere. I guess to one degree or the next it … More Stepping Down
One of the things I get asked incessantly these days is “are you settling in?” I guess I hear it so often because I’m part of a big collection of people here at Trinity. When I hear it I need to remember that it’s very likely that this person probably hasn’t asked me before and … More Settled?
I remember a few months back, up in Aberdeen, chatting to Peter Farmer who leads a little movement called Mission Britain. Peter has a heart to see missional ‘simple churches’ spring up in small movements across the United Kingdom. Due to the stuff we were doing up there, he came to chat and walk round … More The New Open Air Meeting
So, how does it all feel a few months the other side of the biggest crisis of my life since my conversion? Tempting to say come back to me in a year and I’ll let you know. But seriously, its still devastating. There is no getting away from that. The tempation to perform a post-mortem … More Under the tree
Andrew S M Clark 