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My name is Laura and these are the wonderings of a theologically trained ponderer (me), writing out-loud, while exegeting her way through Ephesians and working to help form her small corner of the New Humanity in Christ.
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missonal Archive
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Learning to be the Church in our City
Posted on 2009/07/14 | 2 CommentsLiving in LA, we forget the ends of the earth come here (Ac1:8). Thanks, @danlim, for reminding us. -
Mission without the Sacred-Secular Dichotomy
Posted on 2009/02/10 | 1 CommentUPDATED 2/11/09 Question: Given the identity of church, what are the activities that would express that identity and by what criteria are those expressions to be evaluated? For too long,... -
The Necessary Primacy of Theology Proper in the Missiology-Ecclesiology Discussion
Posted on 2009/01/12 | No CommentsIn the discussion regarding the relationship between missiology and ecclesiology, I am going to go off the rails and say that theology proper is the only primary theological element. Everything... -
Having Missions vs Doing Missions
Posted on 2007/09/24 | No CommentsThe first work pillaged for the rubric is The Church by Edmund P. Clowney. In the midst of Clowney’s discussion of apostolicity and holiness as marks of the church, he... -
The Identity and Function of the Church
Posted on 2007/06/08 | 1 CommentExcerpt from “The Identity and Function of the Church in Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology,” my paper on Newbigin’s ecclesiology. One might think of ecclesiology as an identity-function grid upon which... -
The Missional Identity of the Church 7
Posted on 2007/05/10 | No CommentsThe Gospel in a Pluralist Society by Lesslie Newbigin 255 pages Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (December 1989) ECCLESIOLOGICAL INSIGHTS The church is… a community of peace, overflowing reverence... -
The Missional Identity of the Church 6
Posted on 2007/04/19 | 2 CommentsNOTE: this post has been rewritten Foolishness to the Greeks Lesslie Newbigin 160 pages Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (April 1986) Post-enlightenment culture, chapters 1-2 Modern culture has three... -
The Missional Identity of the Church 5
Posted on 2007/04/04 | 3 CommentsQuestion to Consider from my reading of Newbigin’s The Open Secret If the Trinity is best understood through the narratives of salvation history and if the ecclesia exists only in... -
The Missional Identity of the Church 4
Posted on 2007/04/01 | 2 CommentsGleanings from Newbigin’s The Open Secret, chapters 9-10 Key Ideas The church is the community of those who acknowledge Jesus as the ultimate authority, existing to trust and participate in... -
The Missional Identity of the Church 3
Posted on 2007/03/25 | No CommentsGleanings from Newbigin’s The Open Secret, chapter 8 Key Ideas The church is the death-transcending people of God in Jesus by the Spirit to bear before the world a fully...
