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One of the most exciting things about returning to a local church pastorate, has been the renewed opportunity I’ve had to engage with more recent Christian literature. And I’m really enjoying that. One of the things I especially notice is the change in the style of book titles. They used to be called “Knowing God” and “I [...]
I’ve been reading Floyd McClung on the subject of “Belonging before Believing before Behaving”. He says that, wrongly, we expect people to believe in something before they can belong to it. Jesus, on the other hand, asked his followers to belong to his movement before he asked them to believe. He understood that belief is not [...] This is a challenging section of Stuart Murray-Williams book on being church in a post Christian culture: Church after Christendom. And especially on the theme we are thinking a lot about at GBC, what is “the church” in a multi-congregational/cell structure? In [emerging] churches where belonging, believing and behaving are in flux, is there any room for [...] At GBC we have begun to try and use a variant of Gray’s Matrix as a basis for our commitment to: Love God | Love each other | Make disciples (see image below). Frank Gray developed the Engels scale (which is essentially a knowledge based understanding of the gospel) to include a second axis. This defines the hearer’s [...] |
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