Missional Jesus 4

Continuing the Missional Jesus series from Jesus Creed.
Missional Jesus 4
The missional Jesus enlists others in his mission; and one can see this as an evangelistic summons into the work of the kingdom by attachment to Jesus. A good place to see this is the fuller story of Peter’s conversion in Luke 5:1-11.
What I love about [...]

Where, we ask, is God today?

I came across this great hymn by Kim Fabricius over at Faith and Theology.
Where, we ask, is God today?
(Tune: Emma)
Where, we ask, is God today –
in the gaps that science leaves,
gaps that close as knowledge grows?
Such a God is on reprieve.
Where, we ask, is God today –
in the private place of prayer,
where we find security?
Such [...]

Forge Intensive Monday - Mark Pierson

I thought I’d post up my raw notes from the intensive … totally unedited I’m afraid, so please excuse anything wrong, offensive or unintelligible.
Mark Pierson. Urban Seed.
Worship sustains people in the following of Christ in the world.
leader has a responsibility to sustain people in their place in the world. Not about pushing them into what [...]

Lent at Loam

When we met on Wednesday we followed the church calendar by observing the beginning of Lent. I found a whole bunch of resources online (background and history, prayers, readings, reflections, etc) that we used to create a space for us to engage with the idea of this season of Lent. We prayed, read, reflected, discussed, [...]

Praying in each other’s space

Last night at loam we did an exercise where we paired up (randomly) and drove to someone else in the group’s house and prayer walked the area. The goal was to bless and encourage each other and to get a sense of each other’s context so we can support them in their attempts to bring [...]

Finding the Sunday Service unhelpful.

So I’ve been finding Sunday church kind of unhelpful for a while now and it’s really been bugging me. I haven’t been able to work out why exactly. It just hasn’t felt right, I used to enjoy it and I still find a good sermon helpful. But the stand up sit down style of meeting [...]