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Learning to be the Church in our City

Living in LA, we forget the ends of the earth come here (Ac1:8). Thanks, @danlim, for reminding us. Continue reading

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Mission without the Sacred-Secular Dichotomy

UPDATED 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 church has separated its activities from daily life; we … Continue reading

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The Necessary Primacy of Theology Proper in the Missiology-Ecclesiology Discussion

In 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 else is part of the web and in direct and … Continue reading

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Having Missions vs Doing Missions

The 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 makes the point that the church has the apostolic mission; … Continue reading

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The Identity and Function of the Church

Excerpt 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 specific expressions of church are practiced. The identity axis describes … Continue reading

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