rebut to the Emerging Church...

Do any of St Patrick's Conclaves still exist? Why or why not?

To volunteer or to contract...

If I do something purely by heart and without deopendance upon remuneration thence, can I be expected to do that something in a better and more complete way than if I am trained and employed and committed by contract and material need to do so?

The Emerging Community of Believers and their Mission

St Patrick's strength may have been his "conclaved" community of believers, today's world calls many of those kind of physical communities cults. But today's technology gives us an opportunity to build a new kind of 'community'. Physical constraints are falling away into less invasive but perhaps more personal channels of communication.

We, at Shadow Hills in Lubbock, have just started a (Connections) Mission Moment, where someone with a recent opportunity to be 'Jesus Walking' outside the four walls is given a five minute pulpit on Sunday Morn. We are hoping the examples set become more and more ensamples so that at a point in time we have more folks hoping to share their 'Jesus Walking' experiences as we have wanting to make a special music presentation.

What sort of resources are able to attend to these kind of grass roots attitude adjustments which seem like they could, and dare I say ought, to be a good part the emerging church?

Whether to destroy it, build it, or just hang onto it...

,,,is the very thing I have been trying to arrange, in just such a way in my own thinking so that it make sense to me, that I, as the Temple of God, and the Church as the Body of Christ, withal that that connote, so approach life from its forebearance, through its currency and into even its legacy that those worthy items of its forebearance be found in my great grandniece's and nephew's heritage while allowing them to be, as I was, contemporary to their own generation.

So I think I agree in general, but may repectfully disagree in specification...I just can't quite tell.

Some icons might be useful to me and others not, but that would in no way guarantee their effectiveness or lack thereof to you, or some(any)one else.

There are some things, sans divine intervention, which can only be handed down from generation to generation, if not father to son, then by some suitable if subtle set of surrogates without a direct and critical drought of correlary derivative. Some things on the other hand were better never thunk much less did!


But I was raised outside the bounds of modern('Big D') civilisation, out in W Tex, where farming is still king, and football theory is being and changed and those new ideas we sent to the metropoli are being revised to again conform to the origianl thema with which they were intended, oftentimes embracing the new tech with which they have been imbued along the way.

What would Jesus Do?...

...Before you say, "How trite!", let me just say that many people are currently using that phrase as a personal public defense of their position or behaviour or action which in reality is exclusionary, and at best a refocus of mission to other and new even unknown co-ordiniates, rather than an increase in inclusion. To those to whom it applies, and you know who you are, Jesus very rarely excluded any who were earnest in their desire to meet with Him, He even went out of His way to meet with them and had Paul set things up through Timothy and others to provide ministry and opportunity to edify those who had demonstrated faith by their courage and perspecuity and perseverance...so what! in goodness sakes alive are you doing?! Maintain what you have and work to increase by the addition of new focii.

BFrankR

Adamant moderation

is juat a way of saying you can overdo just about anything. The moderate side seems to have taken a moniker for itself to try and give itself the high ground of Jesus thought process and in so doing often take the role of Job just before god begins to holler at him from inside a whirlwind....

Fun duh mentality

Fundamental of or relating to the necessary

fundamentalism one of a modern group of protestants

modern and basic?

how does this jibe? I have my doubts! I have a Great Grandfather from Missouri, you know, I mean like what are the fundamentals the fundamentalists of fundamentalism purporting? Love and forgiveness? the Faithfulness of God to an unwarranted people?