Saturday, March 15, 2008
Frost, M. (2006). Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture.
The danger in exile is to become so preoccupied with self that one cannot step outside oneself to rethink, reimagine and redescribe larger reality. Bruggemann Cadences 1977 pp 9
Orbiting the giant hairball
An active sharing of life, participating in the fears, frustrations, and aflictions of the host community. The prayer of the exile should be 'lord let your mind be in me' for no witness is capable of incarnationally without the mind of Jesus
An employment of teh language and thought forms of those with whom we seek to share Jesus. After al, he used common speech ad stories: salt, light, fruit, birds and the like. He seldom used theological or religious jargon or technical terms.
A preparedness to go to people, not expecting them to come to us. As Jesus came from the heavens to humanity, we enter into the 'tribal' realities of human society.
A confidence that the gospel can be communicated by ordinary mans, through acts of servanthood, loving relationships, good deeds; in this way the exile becomes an extension of teh incarnation in our time. Deeds thus creates words. pp55
To seek an approach to spiritual formation taht values inward transformation over external appearences.
To value a spirituality tat seeks nt to limit our God-given humanity, creativity, ot individuality; to value diersity and differnce over conformity and uniformity.
To enjoy from the heart, honest dialogues and avoid relationships marked by superficiality and hidden agendas
To strive to be completely honest with God and appropriately transparent with others about our inmost thoughts, hopes , dreams, emotions, shortcomings, failings, transgressions, struggles.
To seek to welcome back mystery and paradox over easy explaations; to live with questions taht have no easy answers
To work to honestly recalibrate our lifestyles, diets, spending patterns, and commitments o reflect our hope for more just, equitable, and merciful society.
pp101
It will be acommunity
of heartfelt praise, not the fake mouthing of sentimental worship songs
authenticity and truth, not public pretense
does not live for itself, but genuinely serves others
missional engamet with its host empire, not retreat into a religous ghetto
mutual responsibility , not privatised religion
hope, not intimidation and alienation
pp 104
To achieve community in the truest sense, it must undertake a journey that involves four stages:
pseudo-community where false niceness reigns, fake community
chaos - when skeletons come out of teh closet
empitness a time of quiet and transition
true community - marked by both deep honesty and seep caring pp 107
Peck - the different drum: community
Acts of true Christian Worship (Ro 12:1ff)
Not to conform to norms of society
humbly express spiritual gifts in practical ways
To love others
Spiritually zealous, hopeful, patient and prayerful
hospitable and generous
o live in harmony with munificence and charity toward unbeliever
Justice, not lip service and phony left-leaning pronouncements
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Orbiting the giant hairball
An active sharing of life, participating in the fears, frustrations, and aflictions of the host community. The prayer of the exile should be 'lord let your mind be in me' for no witness is capable of incarnationally without the mind of Jesus
An employment of teh language and thought forms of those with whom we seek to share Jesus. After al, he used common speech ad stories: salt, light, fruit, birds and the like. He seldom used theological or religious jargon or technical terms.
A preparedness to go to people, not expecting them to come to us. As Jesus came from the heavens to humanity, we enter into the 'tribal' realities of human society.
A confidence that the gospel can be communicated by ordinary mans, through acts of servanthood, loving relationships, good deeds; in this way the exile becomes an extension of teh incarnation in our time. Deeds thus creates words. pp55
To seek an approach to spiritual formation taht values inward transformation over external appearences.
To value a spirituality tat seeks nt to limit our God-given humanity, creativity, ot individuality; to value diersity and differnce over conformity and uniformity.
To enjoy from the heart, honest dialogues and avoid relationships marked by superficiality and hidden agendas
To strive to be completely honest with God and appropriately transparent with others about our inmost thoughts, hopes , dreams, emotions, shortcomings, failings, transgressions, struggles.
To seek to welcome back mystery and paradox over easy explaations; to live with questions taht have no easy answers
To work to honestly recalibrate our lifestyles, diets, spending patterns, and commitments o reflect our hope for more just, equitable, and merciful society.
pp101
It will be acommunity
of heartfelt praise, not the fake mouthing of sentimental worship songs
authenticity and truth, not public pretense
does not live for itself, but genuinely serves others
missional engamet with its host empire, not retreat into a religous ghetto
mutual responsibility , not privatised religion
hope, not intimidation and alienation
pp 104
To achieve community in the truest sense, it must undertake a journey that involves four stages:
pseudo-community where false niceness reigns, fake community
chaos - when skeletons come out of teh closet
empitness a time of quiet and transition
true community - marked by both deep honesty and seep caring pp 107
Peck - the different drum: community
Acts of true Christian Worship (Ro 12:1ff)
Not to conform to norms of society
humbly express spiritual gifts in practical ways
To love others
Spiritually zealous, hopeful, patient and prayerful
hospitable and generous
o live in harmony with munificence and charity toward unbeliever
Justice, not lip service and phony left-leaning pronouncements
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