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Category Archives: Heterogenous Church
The Good Immigrant and my love/hate relationship with it (Pt 2)
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla. In part 1, I wrote about my empathy with The Good Immigrant. I get that is hard, being different, not being understood and assumed to be from afar. Now my frustrations with what the … Continue reading
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The Good Immigrant and my love/hate relationship with it. (Pt 1)
The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla. I loved this book and hated it, in about equal measure. The various authors deal quite beautifully, sometimes wittily, with deeply painful experiences of immigrant life in Britain without, in most part, expressing any … Continue reading
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May they be one as you, Father, and I are one: overcoming segregation in the church
God is using the changes in our parish to make us read the scriptures from a fresh perspective. In the space of ten or fifteen years, people from all over the world have moved into our small, once settled community. … Continue reading
How “good disagreement” and “radical inclusion” are close cousins of incipient secularism.
I was recently asked to complete a survey about how seriously my son’s school takes character development. The survey was fascinating, because it imagined a very different kind of education to our current secular model with its results-based obsession. Survey … Continue reading
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Anti-homogenous church in Ruth
Homogenous church of cold people During my time at Oak Hill College (2002-05) I wrote an essay on the work of Donald McGavran and his homogenous church growth principle. McGavran had been brought up as a missionary kid in India … Continue reading
Anti-homogenous church in the Sermon on the Mount
Have you ever noticed that circles of friends, interest groups and religious bodies, including churches, are mostly made up of people who look like each other or act like each other? White middle-class churches, black churches, Asian churches are obvious … Continue reading
Being missional – made simple
If you’ve seen the lady who won Ukraine’s got talent by doing a live animation of the history of the Ukraine in sand then you’ll enjoy this live animation explaining what a missional church looks like. I posted similar … Continue reading
When division in the church is illegitimate
Evangelicals in Britain are at present dividing over various (arguably secondary) issues and yet are uniting with Anglo-Catholics and charismatics. These three groups have been historically suspicious of each other and yet they have been brought together by a common … Continue reading
When churches schism or grow
I blogged yesterday on acceptance and godliness in marriage and relationships. The principle of not mixing acceptance (justification) and behaviour (sanctification) in relating to God and each other applies to church as well as marriage. The result of mixing acceptance … Continue reading
How the cross enables ‘liberal’ church
Following on from yesterday’s post on Council Estate Christianity, I preached through Romans at the end of last year and have seen the need for justification by faith alone to be re-established in my life and church life as the … Continue reading
Transforming Grace 