Archive for the 'missiology' Category
Check out Justin HOlcomb’s series on the missionary nature of the Holy Spirit in Missional Pneumatology
Austin City Life is sending a team of five to Uganda tomorrow. We will be training church planters and working with orphans and street kids. Although some of us have traveled quite a bit, none of us have been to Africa, much less Uganda. We expect to learn a lot from the kids and the […]
On Wednesday, May 20, 2009, Ralph D. Winter passed away at age 84 after a long bout with multiple myeloma. Perhaps the foremost missiologist of our time, he was the founder (in 1976) of the U.S. Center for World Mission (part of William Carey International University) in Pasadena, California; the International Society for Frontier Missiology […]
Missional/Cultural
Culture Making, Crouch – a significant contribution to discussion on Christ and Culture, emphasizing not so much the transformation of existing culture, but the creation of new culture.
Transforming Worldviews, Paul Hiebert – anything by Hiebert will rock your mind and change your missiology…for good.
Practical
A Praying Life, Miller – one of the most realistic, encouraging, prayer […]
Ecclesiology and Missiology
Closed Published by Jonathan Dodson January 9th, 2009 on Creation ProjectA really rich discussion on “Which Comes First? Eccleisology or Missiology” here.
Notes from Total Church Conference
Closed Published by jdodson August 16th, 2008 on Creation ProjectI am posting some notes and reflections from the Total Church conference here.
Leading our church into somewhat uncharted waters, I am constantly on the look out for helpful influences in cultivating missional communities, what we call City Groups. City Groups are local, urban missional communities of disciples who redemptively engage people and culture. These groups are intended to foster the church being the church to one another […]
Those familiar with the theological debates regarding Christ and Culture will, no doubt, be familiar with Richard Niebuhr’s classic work Christ and Culture. Largely developed through reflection on historical patterns of and postures toward cultural engagement, Christ and Culture offered an insightful synthesis as well as a new typology. Niebuhr constructed a five-fold approach to […]
Darrell Guder, author of Missional Church, will be speaking at Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church in Austin on April 12 & 13.
APRIL 12th 4:00 PM
“What Happened to Christendom?”
7:00 PM
“Reclaiming the Missionary Nature
of the Church”
APRIL 13th
8:15am, 9:30 and 11:00 AM
“Praying for the Conversion of the Church”
Do Christians Who Reproduce Contribute to Mass Condemnation?
Closed Published by jdodson March 5th, 2008 on Creation ProjectI recently responded to the following question/syllogism at the Boar’s Head Tavern:
1. The vast majority of people will not be saved, but rather damned.
2. The command to be fruitful and multiply is especially imperative upon believers and it is the believer’s duty to procreate.
3. Is it incumbent upon believers to populate the earth with people […]