"Throughout the gospels, food and drink are often the spark for surprising encounters and meaningful conversations.
E Nicky Gumbel, Telling Others (London: Kingswag, 1997). Q Michael Fanstone, The Sheep that GotAway (Tun ridge Wells: Monarch, 1993). Q Alan Jamieson, A Churchless Faith: Faith Journeys Beyond the Churches (London: SPCK, 2002).
This detailed, practical and well-researched book describes the varied and exciting 'fresh expressions' of church being created. This edition includes a new foreward by the Rt Revd Graham Cray.
Church Planting and Fresh Expressions in a Changing Context Archbishop's Council on Mission and Public Affairs ... in Open House see their work as worship , Christian service and witness through hospitality and love of neighbour .
Until then, the community met in a number of different churches. It now has hopes for a base for mission, with café, lounge and gallery space, as well as liturgical space. Longer term also there is the hope of a house where community ...
John Polkinghorn, Living with Hope (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003). On p. 45 he writes, The real me is not the ever-changing atoms of my body, but it is the immensely complex, information-bearing pattern in which ...
Index Brompton , Holy Trinity Church 100 Brueggemann , Walter 48 buildings , church see church buildings Advisory ... youth mission Christendom , death of 24 Church café church 55–8,81 ( box ) , 82 see also Caféplus + cell church see ...
For Paul see Romans 12, 1 Corinthians 12, Ephesians 4 (the quote is from 1 Corinthians 12). ... Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and mission for the twenty-first-century church, Hendrikson, 2003.
Here our primary 'rule' is the Baptismal Covenant from the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church, 1929, ... we morphed from being a house church into a 'shop front mission', operating a non-profit coffee shop, tea bar and ...
James Bielo argues that a re-urbanization of Evangelicalism is under way, driven by “a biting cultural critique of suburban megachurches, and a desire for the 'reconciliation' of urban life to the kingdom of God.” See James S. Bielo, ...
We can also make room for others in common spaces (a café or restaurant) or by being a good guest in the homes of ... From this discussion, I conclude with some reflections and practical points for hospitable mission for the church ...