kingdom praxis | a.k.a. eliacín’s blog

Help us cultivate Kingdom collaborations and creative expressions of love

Dear Friends and fellow Kingdom collaborators,
As many of you know for the past two years Ricci (my wife) and I have been part of Mustard Seed Associates. Because of the loving generosity of many friends,  we have been financially supported to work full-time with this great ministry, allowing us to fully focus on instigating Kingdom collaborations [...]

Available Now! Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! A Creative Response Manual for Missional Congregations 2010 to 2020

Via Mustard Seed Associates

It’s here! The recession response manual, Turbulent Times—Ready or Not! A Creative Response Manual for Missional Congregations 2010 to 2020 is available FOR PURCHASE – only $10.00.
This resource has been in the works for more than a year and anticipated by many. Its purpose is to help churches create innovative new ways [...]

Coming soon: Turbulent Times Ready or Not! A Creative Response Manual for Missional Congregations 2010-2020

From Tom Sine of Mustard Seed Associates

Don’t break out the party hats yet! As we crawl out of the worst global recession in 70 years the troubles are far from over.
Turbulent Times Ready or Not! A Creative Response Manual for Missional Congregations 2010-2020 will list some of the waves of change that are likely to [...]

Do Justice: an intensive in spiritual and missional formation.

Our Discipleship Training School (DTS) is a five month intensive in spiritual and missional formation. The first three months concentrates on engaging students in a holistic discipleship experience that challenges the mind, heart and body in a praxis oriented program. Offered in the heart of Winnipeg’s West End, students will integrate in one of the city’s most [...]

Apply this to Emergent, Emerging, Missional, New Monastic or any expression of contemporary Christianity

I don’t want to hear about your movement or buzz, if it does not move people to love and to live alternatively. Show me your love and compassion, not your books and blogs.
 “I don’t want to hear your philosophy if it doesn’t grow corn.”  - Anishnaabee saying
 ”Si tu revolución no sabe bailar, no me invites [...]

Joining the Anabaptist conspirators

Joining the Anabaptist conspirators - The Mennonite
By Tom Sine
God is doing something new through a new generation that has a distinctly Anabaptist accent in these uncertain times. These young initiators are creating new ways to make a difference in both the world and the church. In The New Conspirators, I explained these activists and innovators [...]

Interview with Tomas Yaccino from La Red del Camino - Spanish

Thanks to Natanael at Karmatarsis for sharing this video.
Tomas Yaccino is the connector for La Red Del Camino. 
Del Camino Network is a community of local churches who participate as servants in the life of the Kingdom of God in response to Jesus’ radical call to ¨love one another as He has loved us.¨ We are connected [...]

The Missional Imagination: Jordoncooper.com

I’ve been following Jordon Cooper’s blog for years. He is one of the pioneer bloggers in the whole genx/pomo/emerging church convesation. Today he mentioned the Mustard Seed House (MSH) as one example of what it might look to have a missional imagination by growing communities instead of planting churches. He also mentioned other sisters communities like [...]

Social Media & Mission Conversation

Last Thursday around 20 people crammed in our living room for a conversation about Social Media & Mission. I expected a group mostly of geeky guys (maybe gal or two) but to my delight it ended up been a very diverse gathering, with people as old as 70, about half of the participants were [...]

Jonny Baker reviews The New Conspirators Book

jonnybaker: jesus’ empire of the mustard seed - tom sine is back in classic fashion

Tom (Sine) maps the current new things happening with a mapping of four movements whose edges are blurred and overlap - emerging, mosaic, new monastic, and missional and he is enthusiastic about them all (i agreed with shaine clayborne’s hesitation in [...]

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