Donald Miller (Blue Like Jazz) spoke at a coffee house for emerging leaders after the worship session last evening. His reflections centered around story. Here are some notes.
Elements of a good story:
A character who wants something and is willing to overcome conflict to get it.
My life had become a series of random experiences.
I began to [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘postmodern’
April 28, 2009
Notes from Donald Miller…
February 18, 2009
The Christendom mindset…
Incredibly helpful analysis provided by Stuart Murray (200-202).
He says, The Christendom mindset includes:
Orientation towards maintaining (but perhaps tweaking) the status quo rather than advocating radical and disturbing change.
Wanting to control history and bring in God’s kingdom (even coercively) rather than trusting the future to God.
Over-emphasizing church and internal ecclesial issues at the expense of God’s [...]
May 27, 2008
Missional church…
Too much existing Bible teaching happens to passive groups of Christians, many of whom are not involved in any kind of risky missional activity. A missional church mobilizes all its members to be sent into the community.
We have found that among many missional church leaders and thinkers there is a concern to balance ideas that [...]
March 28, 2008
How the World sees America…
I sat down to eat my lunch today and turned the TV on to C-SPAN2. Amar Bakshi was in the middle of a press conference speaking about his project- How the World sees America. This fascinating project took him on a 5-month trip to 11 countries around the world. Bakshi is a reporter for the [...]
February 11, 2008
The problem in postmodern society from a Christian perspective…
G.K Chesterton once entered a public debate on the state of the nation by writing a letter to The Times. In response to the question of what was wrong with the world he wrote this:
Dear Sir, I am.
A prayer for the Church…
Lord,
Help us in our weakness and inadequacy to understand the ways in which [...]
February 4, 2008
Gospel word pictures…
Kingdom Grace posted a number of wonderful pictures which are representative of key words in the emergent church conversation as well as many other parts of the Church. They are words inherent to Gospel living.
I re-post them here with a HT to Kingdom Grace. I also found the comments exchanged in response to her pictures [...]
January 5, 2008
Notes from Emergent Theological Conversation…
I am moving closer to a post on the relationship between U2 and Christendom. However, I need to take a detour. Before I explore this relationship (U2/Christendom) and offer interpretive observations, I want to disclose some of the philosophical framework that I am engaging. To put it in Emergent (post-modern) terms, I am bringing out into the open [...]
January 3, 2008
American prayer…
Beyoncé Knowles & Bono – World Prayer (Live 46664 Concert)
In Get Up Off Your Knees, Eugene Peterson wrote perhaps U2’s strongest endorsement to the Christian Church. His conclusion was that U2 is indeed a prophetic voice, saying, “God the Holy Spirit has used prophets, biblical and contemporary, to separate people from [...]
December 27, 2007
On Setting, deconstruction and narrative theology…
The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
-Wendell Berry
I am thinking about the powerful influence setting has on character and the way story is framed. In a series [...]
