ken wilson online

We need some new nets.  Something more than contemporary worship music and great programs that meet needs and pastors who wear clothes from Old Navy.  It’s time to get missional, which always  means controversial.  It’s time to examine cultural assumptions that have hindered us from doing our job.  This post is the first in a series on one of those assumptions–how we in the Western world approach categories.  I learned this from John Wimber in the early Vineyard days.  He introduced me to the conversation in mission circles about “bounded set and centered set” groups.  
Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve owed you this post for a while.  Yes, I have a pebble in my shoe over the current state of the American evangelical movement of which my tribe, the Vineyard, is a part.   Yes, I think Phariseeism is alive and well in evangelicalism.  I’d call my own out if I saw it, but others are free to do so in the comments section.  And yes,  I’m bored by Christians who call out the sins of the world like it’s a worthwhile hobby.  Or like it’s news.  Been there, done that.  Spent fifteen years of my life in that mode, and I guess I got it off my chest.  I can imagine being wearied by this–hearing this, reading this– just as I am wearied, but not so much to stop.  So the first of a two-parter: evangelicals at our best (to be followed by evangelicals at our worst.)

Read the rest of this entry »

Something’s happening in American Evangelicalism. We are waking up from a stupor. We are attempting to fear our founder more than we fear our movement’s group think.  Because He is asserting his proprietary rights over His brand–a brand which has been the subject of trademark infringement for too long.  We are standing up to be counted as  conscientious objectors to the evangelical culture war that has been distracting us from the evangelical mission.
Read the rest of this entry »