A review of Michael R. Emlet, CrossTalk: Where Life and Scripture Meet, New Growth Press, 2009. Available here from amazon.com and amazon.co.uk. Rick tells you his wife is divorcing him after 22 years of marriage. How do you bring the words of Scripture to Rick? How do you counsel him with...
In recent years we have been offered all sorts of options for church: organic church, messy church, simply church, total church. Let me (with tongue in cheek) suggest another: slow church. There is a slow food movement that extols the merits of hand-cooked food made from local ingredients...
Some people are quite excited by the idea of ‘missional community’. They have high ideals. They want to recreate something of what was going on the New Testament or at least revive some of the dreams they had when they were young. For others ‘missional community&rsquo...
Key to making missional communities work well is a shared life. This is surely at the heart of New Testament Christianity. It is also about sharing our lives together. Doing ordinary life together. Having our lives intersect. That requires a certain size. We’re talking about 10, 20, 30...