It has a been a crazy week around here! Each day from 3:00-6:00 I’ve been in an intensive with Eddie Gibbs on the Emerging Church in the 21st Century. It has been great, but has left little time for reflection. Below is a “reflecto-box” of reflections/notes from this past week. On Weds. Spencer Burke of TheOoze.com came and dialogued with us, I’ll post a “reflecto-box” of stuff from him as well. ~
| Reflections/Notes from Emerging Church in the 21st Century with Eddie Gibbs: |
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‘We need to exegete the city in which we live’
‘When we feel threatend [in the church] we circle the wagons and everyone outside is the enemy’
‘As church leaders our task is to interpret one generation to another’
‘What determines our ministry focus? – Historical precedents or showing that the gospel is relevant to our lives/world’
‘We’ve turned church into a noun – a place where you go – it should be a verb and a people you belong to’
‘The art of leadership is to consolidate on the run’
‘When there is no vision people run amuck’ – Eddie’s translation of Pr. 29:18
‘When we leave seminary we have about 10% of what we need to know for ministry’
‘The church should be a global learning organization’
‘Worship is celebrating what God has done in our midst in the last week and preparing for what he is going to do in the week ahead.’
‘We need “fox-hole friends” – Don’t aim for friendship [community?] as and end in itself – it happens in the midst of gospel-work’
‘People are leaving the church, not because we are too spiritual, but because we are not spiritual enough!’
‘If you want to hear a singing church, find a suffering church’
Books/Links/Videos: The Heavenly Man – about Chinese house church movement |
