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Thursday - Southside Interns was good.
Friday - Meeting with Cam Roxburgh - church planter extrordinaire - he is helping me with a strategic 2 yr. plan for first@night.
Also Friday night we had a few people who are new to FBC and first@night. One of them actually lives in our building! So getting to first@night, should not be a problem for her!
Today we bought Adam a bed shaped like a racing car, which he will probably like. He is moving out of the crib and into a "toddler" bed.
Tonight Felicia and I went to a restaurant for dinner. Every year a bunch of restaurants put on this thing called "Dine Out Vancouver". They offer a 3 course menu for 15, 25 or 35 $. You get an appetizer, main and desert. It's a pretty good deal, because the main courses in most of these places run between 30 and 40.
It was a fun date. It's good to date your wife.
Matt - I remember busting a gut listening to Song of Songs being read in the most montone voice ever!!! It still ranks as one of (if not THE) funniest thing I have ever heard in my life.
Preaching on the emergent/missional church tomorrow. I think first@night would be more on the missional side of things, instead of the emergent side. But who knows ? We're just a bunch of people trying to learn to love God, each other and everyone else we know.
I finished the Frost/Hirsch book - THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON THE MISSIONAL CHURCH. If you are a church planter, a pastor, someone interested in evangelism or mission - YOU NEED TO READ IT. It rocked my world.
I kept reading it, going "yes yes yes"!!! Frost and Hirsch give an excellent overview of what the end of Christendom means for the church. We need to re-contextualize ourselves to the post-modern condition. but most churches don't think anything has changed. So we keep singing the same style songs, preaching the same types of sermons, hoping to "connect" with the outside world. We are speaking Mandarin to a bunch of people who only speak Italian. We need to speak Italian.
We also need to live missional lifestyles. The most counter-cultural thing you can do is invite someone into your home for a meal or desert. Canadians just don't do this very well. We need to see our homes, not just as places where we sleep, eat and watch tv - our homes are out-posts of the kingdom. If God has blessed you with a home, you need to use it for His glory - I think the primary way is through simple hospitality.
Ok -I'll stop - but if the above sermon/rant has touched you, please send your tithe to first@night. Sorry - I have no miracle spring water to send you, but I will pray for you!
Friday - Meeting with Cam Roxburgh - church planter extrordinaire - he is helping me with a strategic 2 yr. plan for first@night.
Also Friday night we had a few people who are new to FBC and first@night. One of them actually lives in our building! So getting to first@night, should not be a problem for her!
Today we bought Adam a bed shaped like a racing car, which he will probably like. He is moving out of the crib and into a "toddler" bed.
Tonight Felicia and I went to a restaurant for dinner. Every year a bunch of restaurants put on this thing called "Dine Out Vancouver". They offer a 3 course menu for 15, 25 or 35 $. You get an appetizer, main and desert. It's a pretty good deal, because the main courses in most of these places run between 30 and 40.
It was a fun date. It's good to date your wife.
Matt - I remember busting a gut listening to Song of Songs being read in the most montone voice ever!!! It still ranks as one of (if not THE) funniest thing I have ever heard in my life.
Preaching on the emergent/missional church tomorrow. I think first@night would be more on the missional side of things, instead of the emergent side. But who knows ? We're just a bunch of people trying to learn to love God, each other and everyone else we know.
I finished the Frost/Hirsch book - THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN ON THE MISSIONAL CHURCH. If you are a church planter, a pastor, someone interested in evangelism or mission - YOU NEED TO READ IT. It rocked my world.
I kept reading it, going "yes yes yes"!!! Frost and Hirsch give an excellent overview of what the end of Christendom means for the church. We need to re-contextualize ourselves to the post-modern condition. but most churches don't think anything has changed. So we keep singing the same style songs, preaching the same types of sermons, hoping to "connect" with the outside world. We are speaking Mandarin to a bunch of people who only speak Italian. We need to speak Italian.
We also need to live missional lifestyles. The most counter-cultural thing you can do is invite someone into your home for a meal or desert. Canadians just don't do this very well. We need to see our homes, not just as places where we sleep, eat and watch tv - our homes are out-posts of the kingdom. If God has blessed you with a home, you need to use it for His glory - I think the primary way is through simple hospitality.
Ok -I'll stop - but if the above sermon/rant has touched you, please send your tithe to first@night. Sorry - I have no miracle spring water to send you, but I will pray for you!
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All churches should be missional. Missional is not a form of church its a function of all churches.
Emerging addresses a form issue and has a better contrast I believe to mega, contemporary or traditional.
just my thoughts
ah plunge.