When one of the blokes who became a Christian among us last year told me yesterday that the Jehovah’s Witnesses had been coming around recently – and that he might invite them in for a chat next time – my heart did skip a beat or three. “Oh, no,” I thought, “It’s all gonna […]
Month: February 2013
Vegetable Love: Part Two
In light of my previous post the issue can be summed up thus: How does the missional church maintain an evangelistic thrust that is not swamped by a commitment to long-term, low key relationship in which there appears to be no interest in the gospel over an extended period of time? In other words, can […]
Vegetable Love: Part One
Had we but world enough and time This coyness lady, were no crime.. Andrew Marvell’s poem To His Coy Mistress – written to the lady of his life who “won’t give it up” – is a great celebration/indictment of the impatient man who sees death getting closer and sex getting further away. “[T]ime’s winged chariot” is […]
Are We Living (Just Enough) for the City?
Guest blogger, Deborah Karajas from Providence Church Perth, shares some thoughts about doing good to the city. It’s a great insight. I have a dilemma. Today I gave some money to a homeless person. I didn’t want to tell you that, because I don’t wish to blow my own trumpet and, quite frankly, I’d rather […]
Church Butchers
Sheep are there to be shorn and slaughtered About a decade ago the denomination I was involved with brought in a US church consultant who was seemingly having some success with revitalising a struggling US denomination similar, on the surface at least, in culture to ours. In reflection, the reasons the powers that be decided […]
