TONY JONES, DOUG PAGITT, MARK SCANDRETTE
AUGUST 3, 2008
7:00 P.M.
FELLOWSHIP EVANGELICAL
COVENANT CHURCH
1569 44th Street
HUDSONVILLE, MI 49426
National Emerging Church leaders and authors Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette are crisscrossing the country in a bio-diesel RV to visit 32 cities with a message that combines old time revival flair with a 21st century gospel on [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Jul 11th, 2008
JESUS EMERGES
by
John W Frye
Jesus emerges into the public eye,
a young man into a stiff culture that revered
the Torah-seasoned wisdom of old age.
Jesus, pushing hard on received, sacred categories,
created quite a stir on the Bible-based, right-wing blogs,
where he was labeled a deceiver, demon-possessed,
crazy and, oh!, leading the simple youth astray.
The Jerusalem posts skewered this upstart Galilean
carpenter, who healed blind [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Jesus on Mar 10th, 2008
In 1953 a father had two daughters* in their early twenties. The twenty-two year old one said to her dad, “You’ve got money invested for me. I know. And I can’t wait ’til you die. Cash it in now and give it to me.”
The dad did just that. This younger daughter traveled to New York City [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Poems on Mar 5th, 2008
Pain Kissed Me
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John W Frye
Pain kissed me,
And by the hand led me
To that awful place
Where reality dwells.
Pain embraced me
And held me tightly
Until fantasy comforts
Released their grip
And slinked silently away.
Pain took me
Along the lonely path
Into the valley of many voices
Tuned to sing deeper songs.
To sing the songs of the Lamb
That was slain…
Who was slain.
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Ministry on Feb 11th, 2008
What if the USAmerican evangelical establishment church gave up being church for Lent? What if she just said, “I’m tired of being a prissy, judgmental entity that gets joy out of making people mad at me.”
What if the church had a moratorium on its “we can be as cool as the culture” ways and just [...]
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Posted in Emergent Conversation, Ministry on Jan 15th, 2008
“Bam!” is not just a culinary remark. It is also a theological and missional one. I came across this sentence from Leslie Newbigin from his book Truth to Tell…
“The missionary action of the Church is the exegesis of the Gospel.”
“Bam! Bam!”
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