Here is an insightful little quiz from Leadership Journal We certainly can look at ministry from a number of different vantage points. http://www.christianitytoday.com/le/buildingleaders/ministrystaff/determineyourministryage.html
Jim Belcher, author of Deep Church: A Third Way beyond Traditional and Emerging will be speaking at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena on Tuesday October 13th. The lecture/book signing will be in the new David Allan Hubbard Library on the Pasadena campus (135 North Oakland Avenue) at 4:00 pm. Jim’s book has been well received and [...]
This November a new book by Alan J. Roxburgh and M. Scott Boren, entitled Introducing the Missional Church is to be published by Baker Books in their Allelon Missionaal Series. It provides a helpful outline of what constitutes a missional church in cultural contexts experience deep change. It emphasizes that churches in the West must [...]
Dancing in Public Places This video has been around for a while. Still it is quite whimsical. A few people begin to dance in a train station. It is met with curiosity and suspicion. But they continue to dance, and other dancers join in. Soon even more in the crowd catch the joy. There is something [...]
Alan Hirsch and I are teaching our course THE LOCAL CONGREGATION AS A MISSIONAL OUTPOST in Hawaii November 8-13. This class is for Fuller Doctor of Ministry students and it is also available to pastors as a week long continuing education event. If you are interested contact me at KurtF@fuller.edu This is a great class exploring [...]
I love the community I live in: raised my family here, pastored a church here for 24 years, continue to live here even with a 41 mile commute one way to Pasadena Monday-Thursday. This is a town I love, where I continue to volunteer my time–at church, as a police chaplain, working with faith communities [...]
I am going to begin a couple of posts on life and ministry in the suburbs. Suburban America is a wonderful and dangerous place. This space characterized by safety, homogeneity, and affluence shapes attitudes. These suburban attitudes, that usually remain unexamined and unchallenged, can warp the way we view the world and act in the [...]
Happy Fourth of July! No matter what your politics. Whether today you are happy or annoyed by what is going on in our country. We who are citizens of the United States have a lot to be proud of. On July 4, 1776, a group of very courageous people, with the threat of execution for [...]
You matter When you love the work you do and the people you do it with, you matter. When you are so gracious and generous and aware that you think of other people before yourself, you matter. When you leave the world a better place than you found it, you matter. When you continue to raise the bar on [...]
I just attended a fundraiser for this orgainzation Imagine LA. The concept is simple: 8000 homeless kids in greater LA + 8000 faith communities in greater LA =no kids sleeping on the streets. The strategy is hard work, but they are making good success in their pilot projects. This concept is very similar to what [...]
