Thursday, September 1, 2011
(This post originally appeared in Henry Zonio’s Kidmin and Culture blog; it’s a review of the “Vocation.Life” chapter from Scot McKnight‘s book One.Life. With Henry’s permission, I’m sharing the review here. If you enjoy this post, check out the other reviews that appeared on Henry’s site and also read One.Life for yourself!) *** The college I attended did not have a Campus Crusade chapter, but even I can recite the first of Crusade’s well-known spiritual laws: “God loves you and offers a wonderful plan for your life.” But for many people who seek to live the Christian life, knowing the phrase does nothing to ease their questions about it. They do not doubt that God loves them, but they unceasingly wonder if they are in the center of God’s plan and…
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Here is part two of my interview with professor, author, and blogger Scot McKnight; for part one, click here. In this post, Scot discusses how church leaders can encourage missional motherhood amongst those in their congregations, and how to encourage missional mothers in the workplace. Helen (HL): How would you suggest churches help the mothers in their congregations to embrace missional living? Scot McKnight: Pastors can start asking women to give testimonies as to how they are serving. Many women are already missionally involved in other people’s lives. It takes a far-sighted or insightful pastor who says from pulpit and in different ways of teaching, “Here is a concrete example of how a mom is living in a missional way,” or to give…
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Scot McKnight wears many hats: he is the Karl A. Olsson professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago; he is a popular and award-winning author, with his latest offering, One.Life (an excellent read!) hitting the shelves this past December; and, he is an active blogger at the widely-read Jesus Creed blog, rated by Technorati.com as the #1 site for the Emerging Church. I’m also honored to call him a supporter of my book The Missional Mom, both as an endorser and as a reviewer of the book. What follows is the full interview I did with Scot while researching for this book; he sheds light on how to understand the word “missional” and how the term applies to mothers in the church. Here is the first part of a…
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