Tuesday, April 06, 2004
church and the dub
I am a dub survivor
ready to ez on by
cos its been a long, long time
since the dance hall boy
loved your ways.
Went to Salmonella Dub on Friday. Id forgotten I had a body that is God-made to move. Id forgotten what it feels like to feel bass through my feet and chest. I’d forgotten the magical integration of a tight set, great lights, dub beats, and video.
Someone once described Graceway as like a Salmonella Dub set:
a mix of brass, beats, electronica, with Tiki tane conducting them like wild prophet, inviting us to join for the ride. And what a ride it is; sound, light, visual, dance, sweat dripping from every pore in my body. It finishes all too soon. But what a great gig, no great experience. I am reminded of how I enjoy our attempts at graceway to incorporate the elements of this experience into our worship; sound, light, visual, movement…connecting all the senses to God, who calls us to worship him with all our heart/soul/mind/strength. I go of to the next gig, thinking about just which salmonella dub track i will use on sunday…
Sunday, April 04, 2004
shattered
shattered … he posted the last chapter of his book to the helpful global friends who give feedback.
45,000 words
8 chapters
…. done ….
he broke open a beer, knowing that if he died tonite, he would leave a complete manuscript.
after a good nights sleep, he will return to the beginning. he will take to each chapter with a sharp red pen and the written comments of those helpful global friends.
Saturday, April 03, 2004
a deconstruction of Incarnation
Incarnation is the new buzz word. (Alongside missional). Words are power, so in the spirit of deconstruction;
we are Incarnational because Jesus was Incarnational? Right.
Of course
So Incarnational mission is retreating from people
as Jesus did lots when he sought the quiet to pray?
So Incarnational mission is a geographic immobility and a snobbish attitude to other cultures
as Jesus did when he focused on Israel and only very reluctantly blessed the Syro-phonecian woman?
So Incarnational mission is refusing to share the Messianic secret …
as Jesus instructed people he healed to do?
No, of course not. So what is Incarnational?
kiwis lead the way again: News flash from joe ker
1 April saw the birth here in new zealand of extreme.emerging church…
it offers fools for christ a unique experience and will make all baptists and other followers of full emmersion exstatic.
Friday, April 02, 2004
stripping, art and space
My latest radio rant ..
I want to soapbox about stripping the church.
Now before you reach for the radio dial, let me reassure you, I am not talking about a nude streak down the aisle.
At Easter, some churches strip …
Thursday, April 01, 2004
it is thursday.
i am missing auckland friends.
do you want many or few?
I am in the final stages of preparing my book manuscript for emergentYS. Provisional title – e~mergent postcards: a postmodern missiology. It is a followup to my PhD research on the emerging church. It is a to book, not a from book, an attempt to name some new mission contours, to link Scripture with emergent practices.
One of the things I dream of doing with the book is give some sense of writing in community. I want to ask a range of people to provide comments short paragraphs alongside my thoughts – to disagree, to provide an example, to add a prayer or a ritual- and thus broaden perspectives. Just like a blog.
I am wanting to include voices like a new Christian, women church planters, wiser older heads, alongside the usual names that one needs to lift one’s book from obscurity to whatever.
The publisher and I are talking about having
a) 2 “commenters” that run through the entire book plus 4-6 other regular cycling commenters ie 6-8 commenters in total
b) 2 “commenters” that run through the entire book plus new and different voices in every chapter ie 20 commenters in total.
Would you rather have a few repeated voices for the sake of continuity, or more voices at the risk of not knowing who they are?
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