A little time off
Ξ March 28th, 2006 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Journal |
I just spent 3 days in Medicine Hat visiting my parents with my wife. It was good to get a break. My father has pointed me towards the Acts 29 Network which is a great site containing all kinds of information for people wanting to plant churches. I’ve listened to my first Acts 29 teaching and it was very inspiring. So if you want to explore some of the aspects of church leadership and deveopment, go ahead and download some talks. They are first rate. (Dan, you need to check these guys out.)
One thing I will say though is that Act 29 teaches some very unpopular opinions about women in ministry. It’s biblical, but contraversial. I raise this point because I’m not sure what I think about the Acts 29 Network’s stand on Women in the church. By directing you all there, I don’t want you to think that I’m… anything. I haven’t even heard all the teachings yet. Anyhoo, this can be my disclaimer.
This brings me to my next topic of exploration. I have been mulling and preparing some infomration and research on Church leadership. I am specifically looking at what the biblical model of church leadership is. As an Anglican, I am quite disturbed to be finding myself not seeing alot of the biblical model in the Anglican church.
WAIT! Before you freak out, I should rephrase that. I actually see a lot of the model here, I just don’t see it being used to it’s fullest potential. What I see is burnt out leaders who are trying to do it all. This describes me too. I’m not an ordained leader, but I am a leader. I’m not sure if this topic will come out as a series or if I’ll be able to condense it all into one post. We’ll have to see.
Anyhoo. I’m back at work now. I’ll give more info on the whole church leadership thing when I have some idea of what I’m going to do. I’m looking forward to exploring it further.
There is also a chance that I’ll be going on a mission to Poland this summer. That’s pretty exciting. Nothing is for sure yet, but I’m looking at the details to see if this will be happening or not. I’ve been there on a mission before. Last year. It was a great experience and I look forward to maybe going there again. We’ll see what God wants.