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"...Community is hard only because we like to hide..."

In Your Underwear: Life In Intentional Christian Community (book excerpt)

By Jason Fowler on 08/31/2011

All communities are formed ultimately in their underwear. Until you get to that place of exposure, shock, and acceptance you are not really community. In his book Life Together, Dietrich Bonheoffer called it the shock of disillusionment…

Posted in Community and Ecclesia, Excerpts | Tagged book, book excerpt, Community and Ecclesia, Intentional Christian Community, Intentional Community, Jesus, missional living | 4 Responses

Claudio Oliver: Turning Grease Into Gospel

Claudio Oliver: Turning Grease Into Gospel (video)

By Jason Fowler on 03/06/2011

Let Claudio inspire you as well -as you conspire ways to “do small things with great love” in your neighborhood that model and embody GOD’s redemption and reconciliation…

Posted in Heroes and Prophets, Justice, Videos | Tagged christian faith, Christianity, Claudio Oliver, Creation Care, DIY, do it yourself, Gospel, holiness, Jesus, Justice, justice, missional living, Poverty, recycling, soap, soapmaking, Sustainability, sustainability and faith | 2 Responses

Does your church have a commmunity garden? Now is the time to start one!

Community Gardens: Churches Find Their Local Mission

By Jason Fowler on 03/04/2011

Rising to meet the needs of local food banks, their own members and as a means of outreach to their communities- many congregations are taking the idea of local, sustainably raised food and cultivating the land as a means to enact the Gospel and the Kingdom love of Jesus….

Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos | Tagged agriculture, Christian faith and gardening, church-based community gardens, community gardens, faith-based community gardens, Gardening, gardening as mission, going back to the land, Joseph's Gardens, justice, local food, Missional Church, missional living, Poverty, urban farming, victory gardens | 3 Responses

Will we let Jesus change our cultural values? (montage: J Fowler)

Turning a Deaf Ear to the ‘American Way’

By David Alan Black on 09/28/2010

We tried to imitate [Jesus] in the 1960s…When I was a teenager I thought this meant going barefooted and having long hair. Today I’m finding that the call to discipleship is more expensive. It demands that I turn a deaf ear to the seductive force of materialism and the ‘American Way’…

Posted in Features, Life In The Spirit, Society and Culture | Tagged american dream, American Empire, christian faith, Christianity, Christianity and culture, Consumerism, Dave Black, David Alan Black, discipleship, Jesus, Justice, kingdom of GOD, missional living, whole-life discipleship | 5 Responses

Prayer As Community: 24-7 Prayer [video]

By Jason Fowler on 02/22/2010

From the 24-7 Prayer movement: Meet a truly radical modern-day, monastic community which has moved into the picturesque village of Ramsdorf.

Posted in Videos | Tagged 24-7 prayer, christian community, Intentional Christian Community, missional living, monastic, new monastic, Pete Greig, Prayer, third millenium monastery, Whole-life Christian faith | Leave a response

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities (free e-book)

Growing Deeper In Our Church Communities [Book Review]

By Jason Fowler on 02/12/2010

It is a quiet but revolutionary cultural critique that calls the church to abandon Western individualism and renew our call to be the Body of Jesus- connected in proximity, together pursuing the purposes of GOD.

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