Last March, I commented on several chapters from a book titled the Culture Code. [Interestingly enough, last May I met the author's (Clotaire Rapaille) former Polo coach when he approached me because he had read my post]. Today, in an article –that collaborates Rapaille’s premise too well to ignore– titled “New Leaders Say Pensive [...]

The 4 Turnings…

In 1991 or so, George Hunter mentioned, during a presentation in East Los Angeles, the 4 turnings –repentances — of the human heart that help create the kinds of people the Kingdom needs.

The four turnings are these:

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The blogging cyber city, Voxtropolis.com, teams up with M to provide an internet experience and cyber community like none other in the galaxy. Everyone is welcome to M regardless of whether you blog or not [or, reside as a blogger in Voxtropolis [...]

The World Bank announced this month that 968 million people lived on less than a dollar a day in 2004. That’s down from 1.25 billion in 1990 according to The Economist (2007 April 28th Issue).

Here’s the closing paragraph of the article:

The Postmodern milieu is one in which we can and must hold multiple mental models of reality at one time.

Name changes — in the last twenty five years thousands of churches have changed names. Baptist, Methodist, AOG churches have dropped their denominational tags and adopted a more inclusive approach to naming their churches. Other churches like MOSAIC have dropped the tag “church” altogether.
We’re not the first to “play around” with nomenclature. Here’s a [...]

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There is a spectrum of approaches for creating community with and among unreached people. Let’s draw from the world of technology for an anology.

Technologies exist on an opacity/ transparency spectrum. [Hat Tip to polymath and wordmaven Dean Sharp for the find].
An OPAQUE technology is one in which the technology [...]

The images of the God of nurture and therapy so dear to the heart of the American church, the sovereign God of the reformation in whose arms the elect are all safe, the creator God of neo-orthodoxy in whose home all men are brothers, must all submit to the God who has revealed himself as the God on Mission. God may be all, some or none of the others – nurturer, sovereign, father – but, whatever more he is, we come to know it in the aftermath of knowing Him as a missionary God.

The church will not rise with an appropriate primal scream unless she see’s the earth’s children all trapped in the dragon’s lair of evil, unable to breath until the gospel comes, and unless she experiences a gut wrenching deliverance from this power herself.

The role of a leader is to describe the world we live in and to show others how to live in that world with moral authenticity.