my favorite christmas video so far.

how’s that old chorus go:

“Thank you God for sending Jesus.

Thank you Jesus that you came.

Holy Spirit come and teach us

more about that lovely name.”

(something like that anyway.)

yikes!

this is what gives me hope.

Alan Hirsch talks about what he says is the DNA of The Church As A Movement:

6 Elements:

1: The Centerpiece of it All: Jesus is Lord. Everything revolves around this.

2.Discipleship/Disciplemaking: How the believer lives out the Lordship of Christ.

3.Missional/Incarnational Impulse: God is the Missionary God and we are a sent people, He sends us among people who need Him to show Him there.

4:Apostolic Environment: we must have missional ministry to have missional churches

5: Organic Systems: Decentralized, every member has the DNA of the whole, every follower of Jesus has the potential in them to do all that God puts in their heart for the advancement of the Mission of Jesus.

6: Communitas, Not Just Community: It is community forged together through common mission and the struggle around this, not just being together but being together on Mission.

What do you think?

Church as Family: 3 of my friends who are pastors and leaders in EFCA sharing about their journey into more organic forms of being the church on the mission of Jesus.

Good stuff.

heck yeah! follow the link for a cnn video about a “rooftop to table” restaurant that uses vertical hydroponics for their restaurant’s produce. cool tools. 

shamarlife:

http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/09/29/produce-gardens-taken-to-a-whole-new-level/

This is brilliant! Could you imagine if restaurants, grocers, and communities started using this method to grow food on rooftops? Even if this could account for just a small percentage of each location’s consumption, it would still be significant!