Tuesday, July 03, 2007
why God might like lovely Anglican vicars
First day with Anglicans went well. I think I found out at least one reason why over lunch.
I use Luke 10:1-12 as a key Biblical text when I talk about missional and emerging church. It provides a very helpful window by which to analyse cultural change. It seems to both encourage and challenge diverse church groupings.
So as part of today, we spent an hour in Luke 10:1-12, firstly dwelling in the word, secondly me doing some teaching around it, thirdly them working in groups on the implications for leadership today. And tomorrow I will do some storytelling about how this text is working practically in my context as we plant communities.
Anyhow, at lunch I became aware that Luke 10:1-12 is the Lectionary text for Sunday coming. All these busy Anglican vicars, at a conference all week, wondering how on earth they are going to get time to work on Sunday’s sermon, suddenly found themselves frantically scribbling notes as they get some free exegesis and some free stories and some free application to mission and ministry today. See, God must like lovely Anglicans.
Monday, July 02, 2007
lovely anglicans
I am up to Auckland today, to speak at the Anglican Clergy Conference around themes of mission, church and leadership for 3 days.
And my family come with me. YEAH. First time ever. YEAH. The Anglicans have paid for their travel, our accomodation and even booked a rental car so that the family can go play while I talk. YEAH. Aren’t they lovely?
Which only leaves the question asked by my 10 year old at lunch today: Why would the Anglicans want [to listen to] a Baptist pastor?
Sunday, July 01, 2007
new experiences
I spent 2 hours today being videod. Professional video, with lights and microphones and cutaways and me driving my car into the church car park and walking in the door, me on wide angle shot and me on closeup. Heaps of fun.
It’s not a normal Sunday afternoon activity, but arising because I am trialling a new course this year on Missional Church Leadership. I have designed it thinking about pastors in ministry, wanting to help them grapple with missional church skills and capacities, within their context.
The course has attracted the interest of a number of denominational groupings. So today was about, with the help of a video expert, shooting a 6 minute introduction to the course, wanting to explain the course simply and clearly. Allowing me to explain the course in a DVD format so that those interested can use it to explain the course to their leadership groups, or their bishops, or their oversight groups. I define words like church and leadership in the context of missional and talk about the structural shape of the course, and tell a few stories of missional at Opawa.
It is now on the editing floor and I hope to be able to display the finished product a months end.
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