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nd the first bishop of that diocese along with a telling quote from each when i saw the two pictures and read the two quotes my immediate reaction was here might be a pictogram of the future church even today and even within the old struggling institutions of the church which often get dismissed and overlooked are symbols and glimpses more deep into the movement that many of those who use the term emerging church have yet gone in this utah diocese freeze frame is evidence of authentic shifting emergence and movement albeit small from reason to relationships and towards a more balanced and healthy conception of authority in the spirit this pushes beyond coffee and candles pomo toward the real thing see this future church pictogram posted by cota 8 58 am friday august 23 holy life apostles via pals check out the traits of a postmodern apostle then check out the pals postmodern apostolic leader servant training thing that my compadre iggie has going here is a place to get training for apostolic life and planting the organic or simple church it s holy life posted by cota 1 02 pm thursday august 22 deviants inc kingdom inc i m odd so i ve embraced my oddness and i deal with it some days better than others i like to experiment push boundaries ask questions challenge assumptions and crash barriers i see life here in holy abandon and i m becoming comfortable with the idea of failure because in the end it does not matter if i fail because god does not so we have the freedom of children to play at the kingdom skateboard in the vineyard do wheelies in god s backyard and be transformed in the spirit and it s a heck of a lot of fun yet when talking with some leaders i feel like a not so favorite martian at the door i ve seen my share of polite yet cool expressions showing how weird i sound to them and how weird i am to them i can hear them thinking she is a maverick and intelligent perhaps but is she a team player i wonder what jesus thought when the leaders of his day would not back his ministry and felt him unsuited to receive a numbered jersey and a brand new mit what is all this house church stuff oh what you re doing is just like what we did in the 60 s don t we already have an xer type church as if one out of 100 parishes in a city is all xers are allowed how does what you are doing fit in with normal understood accepted trusted sanctioned blessed funded procedures programs parishes all this when what i could really use are some big laughs an invite to dinner and companions to come out and play then a friend of mine turned me on to an article in fast company called deviants inc after reading it i ended my pity party god bless deviance the article is prophetically addressed to those in the corporate world read institutions telling them if they want to prosper in the postmodern world not to silence take out or keep resources away from their resident deviants but instead to track them fund them and learn from them because all innovation arises from deviance try reading this and substitute the words modern church or denominational bureaucracy for corporation corporate and postmoderns church planters and church artists for deviants then go round up some clothes for the emperor does it make you uncomfortable to dwell among the denizens of deviance don t get too tense the simple fact is that deviance s impact is ubiquitous look around a bit and you ll see that all innovation and progress commercial biological social scientific artistic and personal is a direct result of deviance think of deviance as an innovation virus one that infects the status quo changing traditional thinking at a cellular primal level for more read deviants inc posted by cota 8 26 am friday august 16 sing i m stoked by some of the fresh artists that are emerging for god and bringing forth new songs for the church the music these artists sing is not contemporary which is code for music with a mostly 70 s feel afterall this is 2002 not 1972 so let s update the atomic musical clock on postmodern music sites like worship undergroud and worshiptogether emerging music is called postmodern or modern worship rather than contemporary which is a different and older music and worship genre postmodern music is truly eclectic and includes and even fuses extremes in current forms rap techno and much older pre 60 s styles which have true authenticity and integrity of form so music used today ranges from real rock raw rap really old hymns and future trance to ancient chant delta blues and roots folk i hope some of you guys liked shane barnard previously now go turn on to this native seattle rocker named aaron spiro this dude is gonna tear through the church and reach across into the secular mainstream trust me if you like modern worship music click below and get sing you can listen to all the songs on aaron s site posted by cota 8 01 am tuesday august 13 senior fellowed recently i got seniored by emergent village i m honored as emergent is very cool i ve never been senior anything before i still get carded lame o rama when entering some places so maybe if i tell them i m a senior fellow with emergent village i can get in more easily posted by cota 2 35 pm thursday august 8 tracking the big j c check out this interesting and informative site re jesus only our clever british friends could come up with this yep the lord gets a site that trackin him or more exactly what folk are thinking about him as a holy persona the site feels like a christian graduate student s fanzine about the lord quite cool it s rejesus posted by cota 8 31 am wednesday august 7 below is the down and dirty on soularize register early b4 august 31 and save some benjamins soularize a learning party oct 15 18 2002 minneapolis mn explore the mystery adventure and community of ministry in our emerging culture join other artists musicians storytellers church leaders church planters theologians and community advocates over the past four years at soularize people have found refreshing and challenging ways to connect with other church leaders who are wrestling with ministry in the 21st century whether you call it postmodernism emerging generations or the next church soularize 2002 will expose you to the latest trends tools authors and speakers and have the surprise moments that have made soularize a unique and inspiring conference august 31st is the end of early registration for soularize 2002 at 199 per person 125 spouses if you ve been thinking about going you might aswell save some bucks and sign up now there are special discounts for multiple team member registration too after august 31 the cost is 249 2 register click here we know we re reaching leaders in the emerging culture that are bi vocational if not multi vocational so scholarships are available based on need soularize s unique edge is our speakers and experiences for example the reverend bernice king daughter of the rev martin luther king jr is one of our featured keynote speakers the damah international film festival tour three days after the 2002 winners are announced we will host the first stop on the 2002 tour of this festival of spiritual experiences in film soularize workshops come from our community so it s virtually all the authors speakers and friends that you ve come to recognize and a chance to meet in person many of those names or aliases you ve run into on the phone or online brian mclaren liquid thinking rudy carrasco tom christine sine dan kimball denise vaneck chris seay karen ward tony jones holly rankin mark oestreicher heather kirk davioff jordan cooper joel vestal andy harrington john franke doug pagitt large scale public art tour guides docents will help us explore the emotional aesthetic and spiritual impact of art in the largest urban sculpture garden in the u s and how the church might contribute to the arts interactive labs including video editing digital photography art expression cyber café theology pub song writing studio experiential worship installations and screening room bring your own videos if you are a musician you might want to consider joining our house band the dirty worship band led by tim taber formally of the prayer chain 15 minutes of fame many conferences have representatives from companies come and tell you what you need trying to sell you their wares at soularize we reverse the roles publishers record companies stock art buyers etc come to discover the new resources of the emerging culture bring your cd rom your manuscript your demo tape or instrument and you ll have a chance to meet and talk with people that you d have a difficult time meeting outside of the soularize context if you love to learn in a hands on relational way and like the idea of a schedule with longer lunches and open evenings for discussion with fellow travelers i hope that you ll check out the website and that we ll see you in minneapolis in october spencer burke your party host spencer theooze com posted by cota 6 36 pm saturday august 3 religious or post secular a guy on my xer lutheran list serv sent me a link to the article below it is about the current cultural gravity of post ness hey if you cant tell yet i m into my postness post modern post black post denominational post american apparently this post business is really resonate across the intellectual cultural landscape in north america even more so than in the church where us post folk are still a tiny and misunderstood minority go post al check out the cache of being post secular posted by cota 11 36 am sunday july 28 psalms cd my rating off the hook shane barnard s music what can i say insightful god directed passionate pop cd light candle listen have church but first nab the cd posted by cota 9 01 am thursday july 25 soularize in october i m gonna be on staff at soularize in october in minneapolis hope some of you can make it also posted by cota 8 15 pm the church comes home and a note to mainline churches to open up to new possibilities weeks ago i posted a few links on home churching i decided to do another post because the organic church is foremost in my mind these days at apostles we are starting with a few home churches i hope to have four or five going by fall and then we may start public worship in a church building the home or organic church movement is part of the next wave most mainline denominations are still unaware of it as they are mostly tracking mega churches the church growth movement began before i was born at first there was this guy rex humbard and his cathedral of tomorrow then there was the crystal cathedral and then all the willow creek s there is nothing wrong with such churches growing them seems to be a valuable model especially in bursting suburban areas and among boomers yet i see god doing something new especially in urban areas and among xers who may indeed become the house church generation this is not anti big churches the growth movement was started by boomers and is native to what god was doing with renewal out of the 60 s 80 s that movement is at it s crest now if you buy the theory that the growth movement is mirroring the boomer lifecycle then other movements not anti but different will begin to rise as native postmodern planters post 1960 born start more churches it would be very cool if boomers could open up to the fact that they are not the only adult generation in the church today their younger brothers are seeking to share space in the father s house and will decorate the place with a style quite their own a note to boomer denominational leaders listen to postmoderns if you want to really reach postmoderns for god don t try to reach them instead empower them and back them as they reach their own and re form the church for their generations just as visionary boomer leaders like rick warren and bill hybels did for their generation which means stop trying to study xers and instead learn to love them give them space to do their own thing even in your backyard let go and groove to some of the crazy start up things that god is doing among them then take a risk and throw some of your denomination s resources and support behind them beginning in the nineties postmonders began founding churches that felt natural to them they tend to be smaller and they often expand by what mark driscoll of mars hill seattle call sideways growth where churches grow especially in dense urban areas with sky high real estate costs by multiplicity rather than mass when they get to a certain size they tend to spin off a new church rather than seeking out arena sized structures to gather thousands under a single roof i m into it it feels natural to me like home organic churches will be attractive to many postmoderns whom everyone says they want to reach at apostles we will have small group home church as the core and heart with all group public worship and larger community as the outer ring think of the cells as your nuclear family household and the all group gathering as the family reunion for worship at apostles if we absolutely packed both our host buildings read big dream we can worship eight hundred a weekend but at two locations and on two different days on purpose never wanting more than four hundred folk together at one time don t be confused the organic church is not about small group ministry small group ministry is a modern derived concept that fits into a highly structured and programed approach to doing church the organic movement does the inverse with no programs whatsoever and with the small unit being primary and at the core to keep frosty with the organic church movement i track true type house churches like the church at matthew s house i totally vibe with jason evans when he says i was tired of the church as i knew it it was an event a building a program i wanted to be the church i wanted my un churched friends to be the church not become churched i wanted it to be something i lived rather than something i lived for i heard of crazy people that met together ate meals shared their resources and studied the scriptures together in homes and coffee shops of all places it couldn t be that simple you were supposed to bring the sofas the coffee and the candles if you re real serious into the sanctuary but not use them in their common setting that was ludicrous it was two years ago that i thought that now i m one of those crazy people from the church at matthew s house june 02 edition of next wave visit the church at matthew s house a hopeful word to the mainline churches depsite my occasional rants i love the mainline churches i want them to stop the downward spiral they are on and get out of the survival mode they are in if you operate out of scarcity you are doomed when you operate out of abundance out of what god has already given to you you will prosper dear mainline churches god has giften you with a lot you have theology that is flexible and open but when it comes to methodology you are much more conservative than reverend 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