Missional Resolutions from 7 Hills

Posted on May 17, 2008

The missional resolutions of Seven Hills church are excellent:

  1. We resolve to learn and speak the language of our culture.
  2. We resolve to sincerely listen to people and their ‘stories’.
  3. We resolve to be a Christian community that is counter-cultural/intuitive.
  4. We resolve to live out our Christianity in our work and recreation.
  5. We resolve to demonstrate the unity of the church in the city.

See their website for more…

Author of Total Church has a new book

Posted on May 15, 2008

Tim Chester, perhaps best known in the U.S. for his book Total Church (forthcoming in U.S. by Crossway), is releasing a new book in the U.K. called You Can Change. You can Change is endorsed by Tim Keller and looks promising for equipping gospel-centered sanctification.

Here are the table of contents:

1.   What would you like to change?
2.   Why would you like to change?
3.   How are you going to change?
4.   When do you struggle?
5.   What truths do you need to turn to?
6.   What desires do you need to turn from?
7.   What stops you changing?
8.   What strategies will reinforce your faith and repentance?
9.   How can we support one another in change?
10. Are you ready for a lifetime of daily change?

You can see him discussing the book here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LG74hvjgY74.