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Missional Church Leadership – Week 7
Week 7 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Forms of Missional Leadership. Yes, I had some of my collection of Disney, Pixar and Aardman characters on the table as people arrived. The first part of the session was a reflection on John 15:1-11...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 6
Week 6 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Forming Disciples in Mission. This was the focus of my doctoral research, so I warned them up front that the class might take a couple of days. During the afternoon I screened two video segments from...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 5
Week 5 of our unit for Uniting College for Leadership and Theology was about Context and Culture. What does it mean for the church to see that the "mission field" is here and not in some foreign land. So I actually do a hypothetical where I get people to imagine that their...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 4
So this week at the Missional Church Leadership course at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology we explored missionary ecclesiologies. This started with a pile of one-sentence David Bosch quote cards from Transforming Mission, Chapter 12. We then worked through five...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 3
So this week in Missional Church Leadership class at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology we started exploring (a) what might be missional practices (yes, a debatable distinction) and (b) God's call to dwell in a place, which seems counter-cultural these days. The...
Missional Church Leadership – Week 2
Week 2 of the Missional Church Leadership class at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology explored Christian practices as an expression of growth is discipleship and participation in mission.This is a theme to which we will be returning sevral times during the semester....
Missional Church Leadership – Week 1
Prepped for my first class tomorrow on Missional Church Leadership at Uniting College for Leadership & Theology.The unit can be studied as part of an undergraduate degree or at post-grad level, such as part of a Grad Cert in Leadership. We have students from SA, WA, QLD and...
Spirit of Creation – Sheet Music
We've just made available the sheet music for "Spirit of Creation" - an excellent resource for the Season of Creation. Written by myself (words) and Leigh Newton (music), the song picks up the theme of the Spirit groaning in Romans 8 and relates it to the plight of Creation and...
Luke 10 through a Doorway
Recently I preached on Luke 10 at my local church. It was also communion Sunday. The text has been popular among mission writers in recent years, The lectionary uses verse 1-11 and 16-20 and leave out some awkward words about judgement... I asked a retired builder in the church...