Final thoughts on the final section of The Shaping of Things to Come by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch.
Part four of their text focuses on leadership.
Chapter Ten: The authors make the argument for what they call APEPT (based out of Ephesians 4.1-16). An acronymn standing for apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers, the authors make [...]
Archive for July, 2007
Nascar Church, Part Four
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 11, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Nascar Church, Part Three
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Part Three in my review and critique of The Shaping of Things to Come by Alan Hirsche and Michael Frost . . .
Part Three of the book focuses on Messianic Spirituality.
Chapter Seven: In this chapter, Frost and Hirsch make the case for more a Hebraic approach to the Christian faith; arguing that the Christendom era [...]
Nascar Church, Part Two
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
And now for review and critique of Part Two of The Shaping of Things to Come
Chapter 3 discusses what the writers mean when they refer to an incarnational approach to ministry. They establish Jesus as the model for incarnational ministry and then explore their designation of the church as either extractional or incarnational. They write [...]
Nascar Church, Part One
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I was sitting at Panera this morning reading the sports page of USA Today. The story was about the attempts of Nascar officials to bring some sense of order to the sport. Breaking the rules in Nascar has typically been ignored as a way of quietly encouraging Nascar teams to do whatever they deemed necessary [...]
Bathed in Middle Class Culture
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
My schedule is a bit off kilter this week . . .
I have my kids with me today so I won’t be posting anything riveting or especially non-riveting. I will be back at work tomorrow.
I have just finished reading The Shaping of Things to Come and tomorrow I will begin a series of probably four [...]
Recommendation about Thinking Green
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Life, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I am going to be reading two books while on vacation. The first is Serve God, Save the Planet by Dr. Matthew Sleeth. Dr. Sleeth lives here in Wilmore, KY. I have not yet had the chance to meet him (although he did join us for worship on Sunday), but I have thumbed through the [...]
Around-the-World Prayers, Missionaries, Team Work and Vacation
Posted in Christianity, Culture, Jesus, Ministry, Religion, Theology, church on July 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
An absolutely awesome Sunday yesterday. Here are the highlights . . .
1. Combined worship and prayer times for our visiting missionary families was excellent! Everyone was praying with so much truth and honesty. As Matt S. reminded us: our prayers did join together with the grace of God to bring light into the lives of [...]
