February, 2010

Indexed: X=Y, Joy = Bacon

The other day, a friend Dylan introduced me to Indexed, a blog of insightful but funny graphs like this:

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I’m now absolutely hooked, so wanted to point you towards it and share some of my favourites with you:

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Missional Community Practices?

A couple of years ago, when Mike Frost was in the UK, there was a big trend towards using community practices amongst those who were part of or leading missional communities. A few different communities, including The Lab, tried out a routine of simple weekly practices that were designed to encourage an everyday, intentional mission lifestyle.

I was wondering what your experience with community practices has been? Do you think they are a good idea? And how much is an overload of different things to do in a week?

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Missional Viewpoints 4: Mission as Transformation

In what ways is transformation a metaphor for mission, and how does this affect our understanding of mission and the way we approach it?

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Transformation is a key element of mission – and it’s also one of the big indicators that our missional work is having an effect.

But what if rather than looking at transformation as a result of mission, we looked at transformation as a metaphor for mission itself?

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Mission isn’t for Communities or Individuals, but for People

Mission and Learning – Part 2

Church programs or individual lives?

Is engaging in mission the job of communities of people together – or is it primarily about individuals living intentional lives of mission?

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Part of the discussion following my last post on Mission and Learning was about whether missional engagement and learning should be understood as a group process or as an individual process. Is it that we each have an individual call of join God’s mission or is mission something which must be worked through in community?

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5 Top Blog Posts for January

So, over the last month I’ve been attempting to organise my blogging a lot more, focusing on investing time in the topics I want to research and learn more of and trying to be more methodical and more consistent with my writing.

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I’d like to invite you to read over some of the popular posts you missed, and feel free to comment or discuss anything you find interesting. Here are some of the posts over the last month which have proved most popular with you guys:

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