Missional Living (Page 15)
Win them with fun!
For the past few weeks I’ve been blogging about an evangelical documentary on youth ministry from the States, produced in association with the National Centre for Family Integrated Churches, called Divided. If you missed my previous posts, you can check them out here: PART 1 | PART 2 | PART 3 So far I’ve been quite critical about the film but, as I’ve…
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 3
Hopefully by now you’re familiar with the American short film called Divided. It comes from the NCFIC (National Centre for Family Integrated Churches) and it makes the case against segregated youth ministry as it has no basis in scripture and is founded upon pagan evolutionary principles. If you missed my first two posts, you can find them here: PART 1 and PART 2.…
Niddrie: A Welcoming Church?
This is an interesting little dilemma for NCC – well I say dilemma, more something I am musing on currently as I am reading. Lots of the books I am reading on church planting are dedicating whole chapters to the art of ‘welcoming’. It seems like it is a big thing, particularly in the USofA. Generally, I have not messed with the ‘welcoming…
Showcasing Niddrie Community Church
For the past 10 days, I’ve been putting together this short video that showcases some of the work of Niddrie Community Church. It includes: What Niddrie’s like What the church is doing How the gospel is impacting lives What our plans are for the future It’s 5½ minutes long. I’m pretty sick of the video by now, but I hope you enjoy it!…
Kill your programmes and grow your church!
I have been thinking a lot about what we are doing as a community here in Niddrie. We are constantly busy and there always seems to be something going on. I like to tell myself that it is all ‘important gospel ministry’ but sometimes I am not so sure. We try to keep things like ‘meetings’ down to a minimum but some are still necessary for the…
Is youth ministry biblical? PART 2
A couple of weeks ago I introduced you to an American short film called Divided. If you missed it, here’s the first post: ‘Is youth ministry biblical?‘ As promised, I’m going to take the opportunity over the next few weeks to reflect on some of the issues raised by the movie. According to the movie, ‘youth ministry’ has no basis in Scripture,…
Idealistic Community v Realistic Community
What a great little post from Brad Evangelista here on this issue. The post is from 2009 but it is a great reminder for us as we live in a consumerist, church hopping culture. Bonhoeffer’s little book, ‘Life Together’ which he quotes from, is a 100% convicting, God honouring piece of literature that I would recommend to all. Take the time to check out…
Incarnational Mission v Divine Incarnation! Fight?
There are lots of ‘cool’ words flying around the Christian world at the moment. (When I say ‘cool’ I mean to me anyway). To others they may be silly or nonsensical but as I have a fascination for language, I find them and their usage deeply intriguing. For instance, we have…
Driscoll on planting issues
Richard Coekin interviewing Mark Driscoll here on everything from how he handles authority, Robe Bell, his language, the Royal Wedding (really!) & his devotional life. I like Richard Coekin a lot. He is a very open, biblical and direct gospel man and he is involved in something in London called Co-Mission. Check out their site here on church planting in the south of…
Gospel Proclamation v Social Action
interestingly being re-labelled ‘ministries of mercy’ by many in the USA. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/26484222]