Morning Session for the evolving church: amidst the powers – Walter Wink and Dan Oudshoorn
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I finally got around to compiling a highlights video of last Sunday’s Solar Crash event, Love Comes Down.
It’s pretty hard compressing a whole evening of footage, but I tried. I know less is more, but I tried to create one video giving everyone a bit of time.
Let me know if you’d like to help or be a part of the next one!
If you weren’t there, here’s a taste of what you missed. enjoy!
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Right now I’m leading a church plant, developing two other church plants/communities, throwing a giant party, launching a web startup, on the board of my condo, helping fuel the faith, arts, justice movement in Toronto, all while cultivating my amazing family and the great relationships God’s blessed me with.
I think I’m grazing past the overcommitted line.
There’s several other projects in the pipe I’m love to get on, and I do still have some buffer space… but if I go for them, something’s going to need to be pushed back or completely dropped.
Here’s to not doing anything else these next six months.
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I’m thinking of opening up the new year with a talk on hell. Possible titles of “the Hell word” or “we didn’t start the fire” come to mind currently.
Where are you at with hell right now?
Who’s heading there? Who’s in it? How could God? Why would he? What’s it smell like? Is it full? Or is it empty? Have we been too fixated on it? Have we been avoiding it? Is it just? Is it full of friends and family? Does it really matter?
I’ll take any feedback in the moment, theological, anecdotal, struggles, convictions, recommended reading, anything.
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Today’s blog action day.
Poverty, what do you think? Where do you fit in it all?
Last Christmas my wife and I experimented with funding a few differnet organizations in place of presents for one another.
We bought a goat through World Vision, which sounds cool, but I have no idea what that Goat is doing right now. We decided to partner with Food for the Hungry for child sponsorship. I like how they state upfront you can actually meet the child you sponsor.
My favorite organization yet has been Kiva.
Through Kiva we’ve been able to continuously re-microfinance different families all around the world. I love reading about the different ways entrepreneurs in the two-thirds world are lifting themselves out of poverty – everything from selling vegetables, recycling goods, and making clothing.
With all the places we can donate money to in mind, I believe Shane Claiborne once said something to the effect of how churches and these organizations can be reduced to distribution centers. Where the poor get their stuff, and the rich feel a bit better, but in the end no one is deeply transformed.
Poverty. What do you think?
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I just recently put down Will & Lisa Samson’s “Justice in the Burbs“. They remind me that
The suburbs in many ways are…
“…an illusion of the American dream – where no one is needy, where there is a chicken in every pot, and a car in every garage…
“… where planned developments control who comes near, and are designed to avoid interruption by anything unpleasant or uncomfortable…”
“… designed to keep people busy and buying more stuff”.
Justice in the Burbs weaves together fictional narrative, personal stories, and reflections from guest authors, to remind us all of the calling in the Scriptures to live justly towards those who are poor, marginalized, and oppressed. I’m so glad they wrote this book, and I’ll be recommending it to many.
I only wish they took it a step further in sharing more of what justice would look like in our own suburban neighborhoods and workplaces, rather than simply partnering with those in ‘urban’ settings. But maybe that’s for another book. I’m just convinced that plenty of injustice occurs right under our own suburban noses.
What really struck a chord with me was how realistically and gently the Samson’s call suburbanites to be a force for social justice in the world. They do so by sharing their struggles and handling objections with grace and recognizing that the journey towards justice is exactly that, a journey.
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Leadership Network is in the middle of relaunching it’s leadership books blog. It will be the place for practical insights from books that leaders themselves are reading.
I got invited to be one of the dozen or so contributors in this collaborative blog, though looking through the list I’m definitely the newbie of the bunch.
I’m not sure if I’m going to dual post yet, but check out my latest on “Justice in the Burbs” here.
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