You may have read my earlier post on this new glossy, magazine style Bible called The Book. My friend Trey has some thoughtful reflections on The Book from both an artistic and theological perspective. Check it out.
Project on Lived Theology
At Virginia University there is a Project on Lived Theology that aims to reflect theologically on the practices of everyday life. The website says: “It is our conviction that the patterns and practices of religious communities offer rich and generative material for theological inquiry. These patterns and practices are not just ways of “doing things” (as the historian Wayne Meeks has written in one of his essential studies of early Christian communities), but they are also ways of “saying things”: practices and patterns are “communicative”.
Some current projects include research and writing by Alan Jacobs and Mark Gornik. Check out the list of scholars and thier current book projects here which also includes chapter downloads of forthcoming books.
Spirit-led Ecclesiology
The audio is up for my recent talk at Acts 29 Dallas Bootcamp on Spirit-led Ecclesiology: Following the Spirit thru Church Planting. This talk explores how planters lean away from the Spirit-led center of church planting and addresses how they can practically apply a biblical theology of the Spirit to the challenges of unplanned change in planting churches. Perhaps a timely topic given the buzz over renaming church planting to gospel planting.
20 Characteristics of a Planter
Scott Thomas, Director of the Acts 29 network, created this list of 20 characteristics of a church planter. See the master document here.