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Butt Rock Ken

Butt Rock Ken posted Christian mission and my story | 4 days ago

Two weeks ago I spoke at a conference for Christian artists (kind of ...). I spoke about my journey in learning about what/who we are to be as the church and a few insights I've come to. It's a little bit disjointed, but I thought I'd share it here anyway. This is what I wrote down to go by, but I...

Butt Rock Ken

Butt Rock Ken posted Wells and Fences | Jun 20, 2008

"It is important ... to distinguish between centered sets and bounded sets .... The attractional church is a bounded set. That is, it is a set of people clearly marked off from those who do not belong to it. Churches thus mark themselves in a variety of ways. Having a church membership roll is an...

Murray Stanley

Murray Stanley posted Pakistan Catholic Bishops' Conference | Jun 19, 2008

"The seeds of the Gospel, sown in your region by zealous missionaries in the sixteenth century". The Pope has asked the prelates from Pakistan "to assure your clergy of my spiritual closeness to them as they carry out [their] task". PAKISTAN: SEEDS OF GOSPEL STILL GROW DESPITE DIFFICULTIES VATICAN...

Gerard Kelly

Gerard Kelly posted Transforming Church | Jun 11, 2008

We have been thinking a lot lately at Crossroads about vision, and how to capture the 'essence' of the kind of church we are trying to be. Our history lies fairly close to the 'seeker' movement of the 1990's: if you ask long-term Crossroads people what kind of church we are, many would use terms...