Practices
Practices of a Missional People
Alan begins his keynote by affirming God’s creative engagement in our world of destructive social patterns, brokenness and oppression...
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Kyle Small – Rapid Response to Practices of a Missional People by Alan J Roxburgh
Wesleyan Wisdom for Mission-Shaped Discipleship
In recent years, some scholars have shifted their focus from missional ecclesiology to mission spirituality, by making authentic discipleship the starting point of missional thinking. From this perspective, it is not churches but people that participate in the mission of...
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Monastic Practices and the Missio Dei: Towards a Socially-Transformative Understanding of Missional Practice from the Perspective of the Northumbria Community
To be a missional people means to live according to the reality of the presence of the kingdom of God that is now at hand. This radical call to missional living requires us to practice intentional spiritual disciplines...
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Dwight Zscheile – A Rapid Response to ‘Monastic Practices and the Missio Dei’
Practices for a Missional Church Planting Order
What practices can sustain missional practice and spiritual vitality among church planters? Taking cues from Ignatius of Loyola this article proposes a rule of life for a church planting order...
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Are we post-community? Challenges to Christian faith and mission in a rapidly urbanising world
This article defines community as ‘a sense of belonging that is the fruit of common commitments and personal investment’ and explores the art and nature of community building for mission within the context of a rapidly fracturing, individualising and urbanising world...
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Alan Roxburgh – Rapid Response to ‘Are We Post-Community’ by Ash Barker
The Workplace and the Missional God in Western Culture
…Caroline, as well as describing her personal missional journey, suggests how our neglect of the workplace might change, and why it is important that it does for the sake of our ability to be missional and transformational within our secular...
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Faith without Borders: Maximising the Missionary potential of Britain’s Black-Majority Churches
It is now possible to experience African Christianity with its particularity, colouration and idiosyncrasies without leaving the shores of Great Britain. Migration, particularly in the last thirty years, has led to the proliferation and growth of Britain’s black-majority churches. To some degree their character has been shaped by the need for social and cultural identity negotiation within these migrant communities. Over time the membership of Britain’s BMC churches has continued to be Black British and first generation African immigrants...
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Iain MacRoberts - A Rapid Response to Faith without Borders by Babatunde Adedibu
The Community of the Cross
The Missional Network places a high value on discerning God in our neighbourhood contexts. But how do we rediscover our place within that context and why has that rediscovery become necessary? Martin traces the story of a lost connection. He suggests resources to protect the health of a renewed engagement that reside deep within our identity as the people of God...
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Jason Clark - A Rapid Response to “Community of the Cross”, a keynote article by Martin Robinson
Discovering God’s Initiatives in the Midst of Adaptive Challenge
Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar. – Antonio Machado[1] Those of us formed and framed by Western late modernity have tended to believe we can find our way, with enough study, focus and determination. Be it the...
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Practices of Christian Life – Forming and Performing a Culture
Introduction The Missional Network’s convictions are formed out of an ongoing engagement with a question posited by Lesslie Newbigin over thirty years ago: What is the nature of a missionary encounter with the late modern culture that shapes the West?[1]...
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