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Feb201007

Community Stories, Culture, Society & Mission

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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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Feb201005

Culture, Society & Mission, Missional Viewpoints

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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?

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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Feb201003

Culture, Society & Mission, Groups, Relationships & Learning, Mission and Learning

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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?

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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Feb201001

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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.

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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Jan201028

Church & Ecclesiology, Culture, Society & Mission, Links

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Mission as Identity

We need to understand participation in God’s Mission as part of our very identity as followers of Jesus. Tim Chester got it spot on, writing on his blog yesterday:

For many people mission has become an event. We have guest services. Evangelistic courses. Street preaching. Youth programmes. There’s nothing wrong with these things. But mission is more than a slot into our schedules. It is an identity and a lifestyle. Mission is about living all of life, ordinary life, with gospel intentionality.

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Jan201019

Culture, Society & Mission, Faith & Consumerism

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Faith & Consumerism amongst Young Adults

Some of you may know that I’m in the process of writing my undergraduate dissertation. I’ve been working my way through research, reading material and planning since September. Now I have my research approach fully sorted, it means I can begin to share a bit more of what it’s about. I’d also like to begin to blog through some of the reading material I’ve been looking at and some of the key issues and concepts I’ve been working through.

My dissertation is about how consumerism affects the way young adults understand and live out their Christian faith.

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Jan201015

Links, Reflection & Contemplation

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Are Mission and Worship the same?

I really enjoyed reading Julie Clawson’s reflections on the Missional Church and Worship, posted on her blog last week.

I think she’s spot on that there has to be something deeper to our worship than just the “cultural habits” of whatever style of worship music happens to be cool or whatever methods of prayer or devotion are currently in fashion.

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So, after a long sabbatical it’s time to resume our Missional Viewpoints series. I almost let this series go, but I still think it’s something worth continuing so it’s time to revisit it and press on further. Just to jog your memory, here’s what I wrote as the brief for this series last Summer:

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Feb201007

Community Stories, Culture, Society & Mission

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Feb201005

Culture, Society & Mission, Missional Viewpoints

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Feb201003

Culture, Society & Mission, Groups, Relationships & Learning, Mission and Learning

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Mission and Learning – Part 2

Feb201001

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Jan201028

Church & Ecclesiology, Culture, Society & Mission, Links

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Jan201019

Culture, Society & Mission, Faith & Consumerism

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Jan201015

Links, Reflection & Contemplation

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Jan201013

Culture, Society & Mission, Mission and Learning

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Jan201007

Biblical Studies, Culture, Society & Mission, Missional Viewpoints

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Church & Ecclesiology, Culture, Society & Mission, Links

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