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Archive for March, 2008

From Urban Neighbours of Hope….

Posted by Bessie on March 29th, 2008

Registrations are now open for SURRENDER:08 Following Fire. You can submit your registration online using a credit card or you can download a PDF application form for printing and faxing back. We hope you can join us this July as we look to follow the Spirit in the fight against injustice and poverty!
For further details, […]

The Furnace….

Posted by Bessie on March 29th, 2008

Generation Fire - Sydney NSW - two major events coming up. 
24 hours soaking, worship, praying, burning.    Click here for details. the-furnace.pdf
International Gathering.  generation-fire.pdf

Sydney Shift news…..

Posted by Bessie on March 25th, 2008

The next Sydney Shift will be held early on Saturday 3rd May.  
The Shift day in February turned out to be a great day of discussion and interaction as we looked at different aspects of how we “do church”. We celebrated the Lord’s Supper over lunch in New Testament style, although the pizzas provided a cultural […]

Family seeking others to join them….

Posted by Bessie on March 23rd, 2008

A family in Mansfield, a south-east suburb of Brisbane, Qld, is looking for some folk to start a gathering with them to build one another for the Kingdom.  Contact OIKOS (via the web site) if that sounds like something for you!

An Easter Message from OIKOS

Posted by Bessie on March 22nd, 2008

“She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!”
The words of a well-known chorus –
Open our eyes Lord,
I want to see Jesus
To reach out and touch Him
And say that I love Him.
If Jesus was to physically appear before us would we recognize Him?  Quite possibly not.  Mary Magdalene didn’t – until He spoke her […]

7 Obstacles to Engaging in Mission

Posted by Bessie on March 22nd, 2008

From Roger Thoman (simplechurch journal) See link to the right.
(Following are my notes on Deb Hirsch’s talk at the CMA Organic Movements Conference earlier this month.  This is the abbreviated version.  You can download my longer notes here: 7_obstacles_to_engaging_in_mission_deb_hirsch.doc )
The fall away rate for people who continue to be really involved in mission is very high.  […]

Ekklesia: To The Roots of Biblical House Church Life

Posted by Bessie on March 22nd, 2008

If you are looking for material about Christ-centered church as the apostles originally designed it, this is the book to get! And it’s  free for the asking!
 Subjects covered include: apostolic traditions, participatory church meetings, full meal Lord’s suppers seen as rehearsal dinner for the wedding banquet of the Lamb, home based and living-room sized churches, […]

Christian Mission in the Public Square

Posted by Bessie on March 22nd, 2008

This is advance notice of a conference to be held in Canberra from 2 to 5 October 2008.
It will be the first conference of the Australian Association for Mission Studies (AAMS), and is co-sponsored by AAMS, the Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture (ACC&C) and the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre of Charles Sturt University […]

Bobby Gupta is visiting Australia

Posted by Bessie on March 22nd, 2008

He will be in Melbourne and speaking on Church Planting Movements
Bobby Gupta transformed a Bible college into a church planting movement which currently has 610 church planters who have planted 3,163 churches in 21 states of India and in Nepal with a membership of over 150,000 believers, over the last 20 years.
Bobby is visiting Australia in […]

From Roger Thoman (simplechurch journal)

Posted by Bessie on March 20th, 2008

Re-Thinking House Church
The process of thinking about, practicing, re-thinking, re-imagining, and re-experimenting is exactly where the church needs to be today as it struggles to shed some irrelevant outer garments and seeks to uncover the shape it is morphing into.
I have seen the benefits of moving away from more traditional structures and into church forms […]