Dan J. Brennan

Julie Clawson: White Men, Submission, and the Kingdom of God Pt 2

It is not giving up power to accuse those who leave a church of losing any authority or stepping outside of the kingdom of God. That is using power to manipulate and guilt people into submission. 

Julie Clawson

This is the second post reflecting on Julie Clawson's recent FB status. If you missed my first post it is here. Julie is reacting to white men who want us to follow their way of life in the kingdom of God. "Real" community for them is bound up in a tightly connected dynamic of death to self and submission to a local church. 

3. The challenge of not conflating God's authority exclusively with death to self, submission and the local church.

A Missional Conversation: David Fitch and Ed Stetzer

If you haven't yet, look at the brief conversation between David Fitch and Ed Stetzer.  I so appreciate the Lord criss-crossing our paths and it is a joy to be in leadership in Life on the Vine.  This was taped where we gather together as God's people. 

You know of course, that I believe one of the deepest fruits in missional conversation is gender reconciliation--sexual shalom in this life between men and women.

Synchroblog--What is Missional?

A number of bloggers who are sympathetic to a new way of emphasis in ecclesial focus--i.e. churches who are self-consciously missional are blogging on what is missional today.  At the suggestion of Rick Meigs, What does it mean to be missional?  David Fitch, Len, Brother Maynard, Brad Bisco, Bill Kinnon, Jamie Arpin-Ricci, and Mak are just some of the many who are participating in the synchroblog.  All of them have some good, authentic thoughts to contribute to the conversation.