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Category Archives: Ecclesiology
Shepherds and the Story—A Sermon about Elders
I’ve been thinking about how our understanding of elders and their roles as shepherds relates to the big picture, the story the church has been brought into by Jesus. With elders, as with many other parts of church life, it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Ecclesiology, leadership, Ministry, Practical Theology, Story, Theology
Tagged elders, narrative theology, shepherds, story
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Elders Part 2: Making Decisions about Making Decisions
Most of the time, when men become elders, they have very little idea of what things are going to be like. What should they expect in meetings? What’s expected from them outside of the meeting room? What kinds of questions are … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Ecclesiology, leadership, Practical Theology
Tagged church, ecclesiology, elders, elderships, leadership, meetings, shepherds
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Mentalities for a Church Engaging the Community
In part one of this series, I talked about how complicated it can be to develop a particular set of mentalities within the church. That’s not all that helpful without some concrete examples of what we mean by mentalities. The … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Community Engagement, Ecclesiology, justice, leadership
Tagged Community Engagement, mentalities, outreach
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Developing Church Mentalities
Our church, like many others, is working to broaden its self-understanding, particularly in terms of how we engage the particular community we live in. We want to move from an internally-focused, isolated church to one that is at work transforming … Continue reading
Posted in Church, Community, Community Engagement, Ecclesiology, leadership
Tagged church leadership, Community Engagement, leadership, mentalities, outreach, strategy
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Sojourners Calls Out the Emergent Church on Race
This friday, Sojourners will release its May issue, and it certainly has more anticipation built up than I can imagine is typical for the monthly magazine. That’s in part in great part to the cover art, which is a pretty … Continue reading
a place to…
Okay, here’s a way I’m thinking about ecclesiology these days. I’ve been plugging words and phrases into this formula: our church is (or should be) a place… It’s a local ecclesiology, in other words it how I’m coming to understand … Continue reading
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