Take the re-church survey May 30, 2008
Posted by Ryan in General.add a comment
I am attempting to gather some information about how we can shape the re-church network for new stage of its ministry. I have had phone or email conversations with many of you over the past months or years. I am increasingly asked by Adventist pastors of all ages for advice or just conversation about the questions they’re having. Maybe you are one of those.
All of this has got me thinking again about the importance of a network like re-church. I’ve begun to think of re-church as a kind of “Order/Fraternity of Missional Leaders” (“Order” is less sexist, I think). This is not about subscribing to a particular theology or practice, but about a way of being in the world and being in ministry in God’s kingdom. It is about openness to the questions that God’s Spirit is stirring within us.
So, to that end, I’ve created an online survey. It should take you less than 10-15 minutes to complete. In fact, it’s very short. I would very much appreciate your input.
>>TAKE THE SURVEY<<
Envision 08 Meet-Up May 23, 2008
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A few of us that are a part of the re-church network are going to be a Envision in Princeton, New Jersey (June 8-10). If you’re going to be there, please add a comment to this post to that effect and I’ll be in touch with you about a little meet-up.
Samir Selmanovic, founder and Program Coordinator of Faith House Manhattan, will be co-presenting a seminar with Miroslav Volf called “Religious Pluralism and Christian Faith“
Understand more deeply the meaning of Christian witness in a multi-religious world, especially where religion is a source of conflict and war (from the website).
Others who I know will be there include, Johnny A. Ramirez, Jr. (graduate student at University of Aberdeen in Scotland) Todd Stout (Church of the Advent Hope, Manhattan) and Zane Yi.
It’s not too late to register. I hope to see you there!
Missional Museums? May 9, 2008
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I am a regular contributor to a blog called Missional Journey, which is a part of the Allelon. (If all that is new to you, check it out!)
Today I wrote a new post for the Missional Journey blog which compares the conversation about missional church with a conversation I’ve been “eavesdropping” on for the past few months about art and museums. It’s not the first time someone has compared churches to museums (buildings where relics of a former age are stored for people to come and look inquisitively?).
Anyway, check out my post called, “Missional Museums?” and join in the conversation!
Here’s an excerpt:
Last December, the Getty Center turned 10, which caused so small amount of reflection not only in the art community but in the architectural community as well. An article on the front page of the LA Times by the resident architecture critic, Christopher Hawthorne, caught my attention. As I read his article I had this impression that I was listening to a conversation I am frequently a part of – that of the relevance of the church as an institution in our communities.
Hawthorne opens his December 2007 article, entitled, “Getty at 10: Still aloof, yet totally L.A.”* like this:
During much of the 1990s, as the Getty Center was rising on its Brentwood hilltop, a couple of stubborn questions dogged the hugely ambitious project: Would Richard Meier’s design ever have anything meaningful to do with, or say about, the city over which it loomed? Or would it exist as an expensive import, a vast collection of smooth enamel and rough travertine conjured up by a New York architect who looked west for commissions but east, to Europe and its Modernist past, for inspiration?
Under construction… May 8, 2008
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That title doesn’t even primarily refer to this website, though that is true, too. Re-church itself is under construction, and has been for some time. Nothing has been posted on this blog in over 18 months. During that time various members of the leadership team have been pondering the future direction of this project.
In the coming days and weeks this website will change and grow and will hopefully foster a conversation about what we want re-church to be and do in the coming months and years. So, if you haven’t been here in a while, bookmark this page, subscribe to our RSS feed and more than anything, participate in the conversation.
