Lazy leadership…?

 I’m not getting through Roxburgh and Romanuk’s ’The missional leader’ very fast at all here.  That’s mostly because I could blog something from every page they write nearly!  Here’s another thought… Beginning with the lived experience, a congregation cultivates its participation in the emergence of the missional imagination.  Participation does not mean involvement in something already … Continue reading »

Re-entering the biblical narrative – for real!

So, I have a plan to learn to dwell in Scripture…  However, like all plans relating to how to do church, it’s an experiment on a small-scale at the edge of the congregation.  Maybe it’ll impact me; maybe it will even be the beginning of something more widespread.  Or maybe, like some of my God-experiments, … Continue reading »

Re-entering the biblical narrative

Roxburgh and Romanuk talk in their missional leadership book about the need to invite congregations ‘into a journey of reentering and rehearing the biblical narrative and its implications for being God’s missionary people in their own situation.’ These guys have got me thinking again.  What would this look like on the ground in London? So I’m … Continue reading »

Inherently unstable forms of church

I’m reading ‘The missional leader’ by Roxburgh and Romanuk, albeit painfully slowly.  Something I’ve just read has triggered a response from me.  On p.60, they say: ‘adaptive change happens by cultivating emergent zone culture.  This involves the ability to create multiple experiments around the edge and then connect them with one another to form a co-learning … Continue reading »