The Future Belongs to the Curious from Skillshare on Vimeo.
here are some processing questions for your team:
How do I stoke my curiosity?
How do we inspire each other to be curious?
How do we concretely inspire our community to be curious?
What is curiosity?
What are the characteristics of a curious person?
Today on “ALL Things M” I’m interviewing pastor Dave Browning about his new book “Hybrid Church”.
I’ve written two articles on (more or less) the same subject. They should complement today’s conversation.
Enjoy.
The Cart and The Horse
What is the relationship of evangelism to church planting?
In a recent post titled, “Dr. Wagner’s Cart Has Been Pulling the Horse for Too Long”, Neil Cole (author, Organic Church) writes about this relationship. Continue reading »
Join us at Kensington Community Church (Troy, Michigan) on October 13-14 for a 2-day conversation on the future of the church in the post-Christian and Trans-human 21st century west.
Neil Cole (Organic Church)
Alex McManus (M Network)
and You.
Who is the Human Event for? Forward thinking, missional activists, thinkers, and leaders. If you think that may be you, it’s you.
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Ideas have consequences. TIME Magazine published their list of 10 Ideas that are Changing the World Right Now. Inspired by Time, I’ve created a list of my own. See if you agree. Continue reading »
In my last post (Frameworks for Mission: Direction or Dogma) we looked at the experience of Cornelius as described by Luke in Acts chapter 10. I asked the question, Are we saved by cognitive acceptance of certain doctrines or by the direction of our lives?  
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How are women and men “saved”? Are we saved by cognitive acceptance of certain dogmas? Are we saved by the direction of our lives? Or both or neither.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of Creativity, writes,
“Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and an expansive tendency made up of instincts for exploring, for enjoying novelty and risk–the curiosity that leads to creativity belongs to this set.” Continue reading »
 I received a question from a friend in the Philippines. I’ve paraphrased his question below.
Alex,
Last week, I had a conversation with someone. While we were talking, he asked me if my insight was biblical.
I asked him, why does my insight have to be biblical? Isn’t that being fundamentalist? Continue reading »
The strangeness of my life hit me in a weird way today. I was taking a morning run. I’m trying to get back in shape and lose weight. I just need to do this.
At the same time, as I pick up the pace of my walk to increase my heart rate, my thoughts are filled with the practical matters of running a household — pay the medical, take Erica to School, get Lucas to do his math, the car needs oil, how do I get Erica a harp, don’t forget to order Lucas’ birthday presents, etc. Continue reading »
