I am back in the town of soap made with “vegan and cruelty free" ingredients, recycled doors and windows and grass fed ground beef. Back in the city of bicycles, craft beers and bridges. Back in PDX, Stumptown, the City of Rose. Ahhh, Portland!
Yesterday, we (the family five) had a good time hanging with people from The Evergreen Community... twice.
But for the next couple days I am in class studying with a couple of amazing thinkers/writers Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost. The title of the class is “The Forgotten Ways: Cultivating Missional Imagination and Praxis for the 21st Century Church.” This may be a bit too much to swallow, so here is the course description:
“This course will involve a comprehensive exploration into the internal and external dynamics of rapidly expanding, highly transformative, Jesus movements in history. We will explore the phenomenology of two significant movements in history (namely the Early Christian Movement and The Underground Chinese Church) in an attempt to identify what factors must come together to create catalytic, exponential, growth. This is not primarily an historical study. Emphasis will fall on the interpretation of apostolic dynamics for the missional situation of the Church in the West—particularly with implications for the Emerging Missional Church. We will explore the implications at the level of philosophical systems, theological paradigms, as well as dealing with practical issues facing local churches.”
More thoughts later...
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