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Welcome
We send
'ideas from the edge' - an email article
-out every week or so. These articles come from a variety of
sources, & are hopefully interesting & provocative. They come
from a variety of authors, including occasionally myself.
Previous one's are linked to below. If you want to receive them,
email me
... David Allis or
subscribe here7/03/08
The Jesus Principle by Paul Walker
3/03/08
Christians Wrong About Heaven! by Bishop NT (Tom) Wright
29/01/08
An Interview with Brian McLaren - Brian McLaren
23/01/08
Why I Don't Go To Church Anymore! by Wayne Jacobsen
11/01/08
So
You Don’t Want to Go To Church Anymore
by Jake Colsen
21/12/07
Was Jesus
Political? by Mike Clawson
14/12/07
Mission
without Reformation & What I Would Have Said
2/12/07
Followup re 'Ex' & the Poor
27/11/07
Three Quick Things
by David Allis
16/11/07
Suggestions from the Consumer-driven Life by Bill Kinnon
2/11/07
What is Church?
Part B by Roger Thoman
6/11/07
Willow Creek
Repents?
2/11/07
What is Church? by
Roger Thoman
29/10/07
Church is the
Problem by Steve Holt Sr
15/10/07
Can an
Evangelical be a Universalist? by "Gregory MacDonald"
6/10/07
Church Planting and the Great Commission by Justin Kuek
5/10/07
The Nature of the
Church by Justin Kuek
28/9/07
Worship as
Evangelism by Sally Morgenthaler
18/9/07
Some Thoughts on the
Church
18/9/07
How Does Jesus Say We Are Saved? responses from various
people
11/9/07
Church: Simple and
Regional by Gary Goodell
31/8/07
Preaching Act 3 by
David Allis
29/8/07
What does the Pope say a proper church is?
27/8/07
What is 'essential' for a church? David Allis
20/8/07
Theses for these Newfangled Glass Church Doors? by Jared
Wilson
10/8/07
How Does Jesus Say We Are Saved?
6/8/07
The Missional Church
by Larry Chouinard
31/7/07
11 Reasons Why I Don't
Like the Word 'Christian' by John Smulo
25/7/07
The
Shift from Consumer Church to Missional Church
18/7/07
Where Is It? by David Allis
7/7/07
More about Preaching
– an excerpt from
“Reframing Paul” by Mark Strom
4/7/07
The Problem with Preaching by David Allis - a shorter
version of this article about 'preaching'
- as seen in the July 2007 NZ Baptist magazine
25/6/07
Tom Sine answers 7
questions - from
www.ginkworld.net
11/6/07
A Heretic’s Guide to
Eternity
- by Spencer Burke 2006
(excerpts from his book)
5/6/07
Barriers &
Structure by Ron Schwartz
27/5/07
Religionless
Christianity
by Dietrich Boenhoffer
21/5/07 New Wineskins
For The 21st Century Church by Terry Somerville
16/5/07
I am not involved in
emerging church
by
Anna Dodridge
27/4/07
What Do We Mean by 'Simple Church'? - from
House2House Network
20/4/07
Riding Dead Horses - from the Parousia Network
9/4/07
Remember Me? ... the street child - short poem
by Carol Diehl
2/4/07
The True Meaning of “Church” by Larry Vanyi
19/3/07
Church Re-Structure by Alan Hartung
12/3/07
The Church Has Had It's Day by David Allis
(Shorter version from NZ Baptist Magazine)
4/3/07
Where To Now? Does the Church Have a Future? by
Gus Row
26/2/06
Why, O Why Didn’t I Take The Blue Pill?
19/2/07
We can change the world … if we want to by David
Allis
11/2/07
Missional Church Practices by Michael Frost
(MP3)
6/2/07
Measures of Success
10/1/07
House Churches Are More Satisfying to Attenders Than
Are Conventional Churches
20/12/06
A Christmas Challenge by David Allis
17/12/06
A Warning List For Those Who Would Join a Missional
Church Gathering by David Fitch
11/12/06
What Does the Church Look Like by Mark Laurent
20/11/06
Pews, Pulpits, Pastors, Preaching and other things
that can get in the way by Dan Kimball
13/11/06
The Church has had its day by David Allis
8/11/06
Transformation: Going to the Roots by Inagrace
and Paul Dietterich
30/10/06
A Call To Holistic Mission by Wayne Kirkland
16/10/06
Bless This House? by Brian McLaren
9/10/06
Consumerism & the Church by Skye Jethani
2/10/06
The Missional Church: Two Different Sets of Values
by various authors
25/9/06
The Missional Church: becoming a Missional Community
by David Allis
18/9/06
The 5 Steps of Apostolic Migration by Wolfgang
Simson
11/9/06
The Problem with Preaching by David Allis - a
NEW article about 'preaching'
4/9/06
A Pastors Thoughts - some reflections on
‘church’ by a US Baptist minister
28/8/06
What do Church Buildings Say? by Howard Snyder
28/8/06
Are Megachurches Birthing the House Church Movement?
22/8/06
Cry Wolf by Ron Schwartz
14/8/06
Spaghetti Junction by Mark Strom
7/8/06
Ten Paradigm Shifts Toward Community Transformation
by Eric Swanson
31/7/06
CATHEDRALS and MORE CATHEDRALS by Kerry M.
Denten
24/7/06
The Bible is not a Jigsaw Puzzle by Frank Viola
17/7/06
An Open Letter from an Emerging Church Leader by
Jordan Cooper
11/7/06
The church: Stuck in a moment it is trying to get
out of by David Crampton
3/7/06
To clarify this ‘journey’ by 'Brother Maynard'
26/6/06
House Church Involvement Is Growing by Barna
Group
20/6/06
Wells or Fences? by Sheila Pritchard (published
in Reality magazine in 1994)
26/5/06
House Church Leaders Reflections (summarised
from an email by Maurice Smith)
12/5/06
Building Bridges: A short interview with Dan
Kimball
2/5/06
Money, Honey by Thomas Hohstadt (www.futurechurch.org)
12/4/06
Giving by David Allis (to follow Tithing is Not
a Christian Doctrine)
12/4/06
Tithing is Not a Christian Doctrine by
Russell Kelly
31/3/06
A Church with no Name by
Spencer Burke (creater of
www.theooze.com)
17/3/06
House Churches & Missions by David Allis
6/3/06
Time Magazine Article 27th Feb 2006 about house
churches
21/2/06
A Fresh Breeze is Blowing by Nate Krupp
13/2/06
House Church & Dancing In The Dark by Maurice
Smith
14/1/06
The Church as Subversive Community by Mike
Bishop
9/1/06
Church Buildings or House-Churches? by Darryl M.
Erkel
23/12/05
Growing God's Kingdom from the Harvest an
interview with Neil Cole
19/12/05
When ‘GOOD’ Becomes the Enemy of ‘BEST’ by David Allis
11/12/05
Word, Work, Worship by Mike Bishop & T Freeman
5/12/05
AN INTERVIEW with a Modern-Day, Sunday-Morning,
Church-Going Christian by Frank Viola
27/11/05
Risk Management & Organic Church - thoughts from
David Allis & Notes from Neil Cole's book "Organic church"
20/11/05
Why YOU Should Plant a Church by
Bob Hyatt
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