Quoting an unknown predecessor in Britain’s House of Commons, 11 November 1947, Winston Churchill said, "Many forms of government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin an
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We must be careful in our love/or hate of the Church (a lover's quarrel?) and see to it that we love the brothers and sisters, whatever may be their faults - and not take on the task of accus
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There is a new way of creating orchards and producing good fruit. The old orchards had trees that were taller, difficult to harvest. So, newer, dwarf varieties were tried.
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"We think we are headed toward the future. The truth is, the future is headed toward us." So says author Reggie McNeal in his book, The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church.
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Do plants grow better in pots? Would they grow better, spread further with healthier fruits and richer fruits, colours and splendour, if they were not confined to such human vessels?
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Can one local church possibly reach, reflect and respond to all the different kinds of people around it?
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If we're just really busy running our churches - can we possibly have time and energy left to be missional ? Does one discount the other? . . .
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If we were going to be missionaries, say in Kenya, we would take seriously our need of entering another land, other cultures (one or more of scores of tribes and clans and sub-cultures), learning t
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What does it mean that in following after God's purposes for our lives, we remember that as Jesus was sent to our world, so are we?
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We need to beyond the goals of having good leadership and healthy churches to an enabled ministry that actually transforms the communities in which we live and serve.
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In several of Toronto's 'gateway communities' - places of entrance to life in Canada (such as Regent Park, Thorncliffe Park Village and St.
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Celtic Christian Spirituality, a book by Oliver Davies and Fiona Bowe that I picked up during last year’s visit to the Iona Community in Scotland, continues to speak to my soul.
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There’s got to be a point or a ‘so what?’ aspect beyond our having good leadership and healthy churches.
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The 'modern age' assumed that we could control, predict and pressure into conformity all that we wanted to be and to do, pressing foward as we have been toward preferred outcomes for the life, meas
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What kind of church is helpful, relevant, noticed, needed in its community?
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It's difficult for us Christians to actually live Christianly, incarnationally, seeking Kingdom values, trying to follow and work with Jesus in building community in our neighbourhood.
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On a trip to Turkey I visited the seven churches to which, initially, was written New Testament's Book of Revelation, as well as such ancient centres as Troy, Assos, Constantinope (Istanbul), Hiera
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'How do we penetrate society with the message and praxis of the Gospel - in a Community that is both sign and witness of Kingdom coming?' - and: 'Are there times when the church,
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Several times, when I was a boy, living in my family on the small market garden farm of my father, our cat Rusty left a ‘gift’ at our backdoor.
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Though a Hindu, Mahtama Ghandi was a great admirer of Jesus. He wished, though that those who called themselves Christians would live more like the Christ whom they claimed to worship and serve.
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A the beautiful historical church, St. Martin-in-the-Fields.
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One doesn't hear so much of late about 'emergence' in Christian Church talk.
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“Nothing worthwhile is ever accomplished without passion . . .”
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