(At about 45:00 through his "Why multi-site?" podcast.)  "My point in showing you this historically is that every single church is on the contextualisation continuum.  The question is not, 'Will you contextualise?', the question is, 'What is the cutting edge of the year that you are on?'"  Some of his examples based on technology in use in our church buildings are: ...

Here is comfort, high as heaven, stronger than death! What! Mercy for all? for Zaccheus, a public robber? for Mary Magdalene, a common harlot? Methinks I hear one say, “Then I, even I, may hope for mercy!” (from Wesley's sermon "Salvation by Faith", III.6; quoted in Derek J. Tidball, Builders & Fools: Leadership the Bible way. Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1999, 31).

I've recently been reading James W. Sire's The Universe Next Door: a guide book to world views (3rd edn, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1996), and i've started making summaries of the different world views for small group discussion. Attached is a summary of the first chapter on Christian Theism.

I just read (i'm a bit slow, i know) this article by Alan Grey responding to the suggestion that we should all call God 'Allah'. (I would have replied in a comment, but the captcha system employed by blogspot.com doesn't want to play nice.)

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I've been studying the Gospel of John at college this semester, and one view that i've encountered is the view that John's chronology of the Passion week, in particular the day of the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, contradicts that of the Synoptic Gospels. This article by Barry D. Smith explains some of the issues and argues for the view that there is no contradiction.

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