NZ Winter 2004
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Old and New forms of Church and how they relate (or don't) UK based Maggie Dawn Reflects:
Doing innovative things outside the institutional setting is not the only way. Old forms of Church were once new forms. There's a lot of talk about the kind of innovative 'party church' or house-group churches run by people like TallSkinnyKiwi, Alan Creech and many others; there's lots of good stuff going on there. And there is another whole raft of people - me included - who have experimented with 'new forms' and ended up doing the 'emerging' thing within the context of the traditional, or institutional Church. But in both old forms and new there is suspicion and resistance about the form of Church that 'we are not'.
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	Celtic Models and Possibilities this link takes you to a number of articles which reflect on what celtic christianity can offer us - hospitality, openness to the earth, honouring the sacred around us, building communities.... More >>
	Called Again - Alan Jamieson What many postmoderns seek today is not simply a modernist set of proofs, however compelling, but an entering into truth that is far deeper and more profound that the sort of data gained from historical analysis or microscopic investigation. They seek the sort of truth that can look at the scriptures and say, yes these are human constructs written by people every bit as fallible and human as ourselves. More >>
	Post:: Contemporary Worship Todd Rhoades interviews Sally Morgenthaler about moving beyond the contemporary worship scene of the 80s/90s into the more experiential, tactile creative worship of the emerging church. Her website has heaps of resources to assist this move. More >>

When your options are either to revise your beliefs or to reject a person. Look again. Any formula for living that is to cramped for the human condition cries for rethinking. Hard-cover catechisms are a contradiction to our loose-leaf lives Dr Gerhard Frost

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