Jun
10
2010
Worth a Look 6.10.10
PLNTD is a new church-planting network that is “missionally focused” and “distinctively Baptist.” Their purpose is “to cultivate community for church planters and assist churches in the process of becoming church planting churches.”
Our purpose is derived from text and context. Textually, we see that church planting is the natural outcome of enduring commitment to the Great Commission. Contextually, we believe that a church-based network is not only the best way to advance God’s kingdom in an area but also the best place for church planters to be trained and supported. It is our desire to be able to facilitate both: developing church planters as well as church planting churches.
It’s official. The Episcopal Church USA has been suspended by the Anglican Communion. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury writes:
I am therefore proposing that, while these tensions remain unresolved, members of such provinces – provinces that have formally, through their Synod or House of Bishops, adopted policies that breach any of the moratoria requested by the Instruments of Communion and recently reaffirmed by the Standing Committee and the Inter-Anglican Standing Commission on Unity, Faith and Order (IASCUFO) - should not be participants in the ecumenical dialogues in which the Communion is formally engaged. I am further proposing that members of such provinces serving on IASCUFO should for the time being have the status only of consultants rather than full members.
Nick Mitchell interviews Pauline scholar Michael Gorman on theosis, participationist understandings of justification, and union with Christ:
Q: How would you summarize Paul in a twitter (140 characters)?
A: Jesus is God’s crucified and resurrected Messiah and Lord whose Spirit creates communities of cruciform faith, hope, and love in anticipation of final salvation.