9 reasons NOT to plant a church in 2012

[UPDATE: When you are finished reading this post, go here to the second post in this series: Practices of a New Jesus Movement.] "Church planting is the most effective form of evangelism under heaven" said C.Peter Wagner. I know he said ...

Emerging Church Definition 4.0

STEVE: 4. How far do you think the church has to go before it will really start to reach the emerging generation in large numbers? TALLSKINNYKIWI: As far as Jesus went, which is all the way, incarnating, fleshing out Kingdom realities i...

5 Biggest Church Planting Mistakes

Biggest Church Planting Mistakes: 1. Rushing ahead 2. Underestimating the cost 3. Violating the Sabbath 4. Hanging on too long 5. Not having a coach From "Most common mistakes church planters make" by Shawn Lovejoy and David Putnam, bot...

Why They Don't Say Emergent

"Why We're Not Emergent: By Two Guys Who Should Be". Absolutely hilarious! I only read the sampler PDF, cheap and stingy as I am, but what I read was really funny and actually quite clever. Heres a couple of guys practicing, as far as ...

An Open Blog Post for Don Carson 1.1

[1.1 update: I wish I had chosen a better name and genre for this. An open post should only be used after interaction, and i did not get any email response from my requests in Sept 2004 - a better and less threatening post title would h...

Affirmation (A Response to Aaron)

Aaron. Thanks for your questions regarding Emergent's Official Response that you published there and also sent to me as an email. I said i would take a shot at answering them if no one else would and so far, they remain unanswered. My...

Facebook and new churches

LifeChurch.tv are attempting to start a church through the Facebook platform, or at least help create new aggregations through leveraging the Facebook API. More about it here from Bobby Gruenewald. As for me, I find Facebook annoying...

Bob Logan on Church Planting

I am in Bob Logan's session. Sorting the Soils is what he is talking about right now, and being "cultivatable". Years ago when I was reading his stuff, Bob was using human reproduction terminology to describe the church planting process...

Deep Church shifts over to USA

" . . . Deep Church is back with a vengeance. Get used to the term because you are going to hear much more of it." TallSkinnyKiwi, 2007 A few years ago the UK experienced a "Deep Church" wave. There were books, blogs, lecture series, N...

What is Emergent?

Today is the deadline for me to answer 3 questions asked by a popular magazine in USA. OK, I lied. Yesterday was the deadline and i wanted to sleep on my answers. Today I decided to forget what I had written and just answer the question...