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Ben posted an update 3 weeks ago
Ministry and Mission: STAY and GO
Ministry is God saying STAY
Mission is God saying GO
Ministry never happens without a GO.
Mission is hallow if we don’t know how to STAY.
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Revelation: Invent It, Then Use It!!
Props to @DrTiffany who is using REM right now on the PWP Prayer Leaders training “Prayer as a Missional Movement”. Our team invented this tool a week ago and used it for The DISTRICT and now she’s deploying it again!
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Ben posted an update 3 weeks ago
Prayer Because of Her Vision
Lord, I really don’t like uncertainty. When you show me your vision from someone else’s eyes, I’m like “how is this going to happen?” Then I realize that my own vision is constrained by my idea of how things should be done and what I think would be manageable. (And don’t I think some vain things manageable sometimes!) But that isn’t…
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Ben posted a new entry. 3 weeks ago
Online Prayer GroupOnline Prayer Group is part of a growing phenomenon of believers using online chat, voice, and video platforms to extend and support community prayer life.…
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Ben posted an update 4 weeks ago
Describing Discipleship
Sometimes i hear people say, “we Anabaptists know discipleship.” That’s made me very curious about the history of “discipleship” in Annabaptism and what’s meant by the term.
David Flowers actually has a description that is in line with what I think i see in scripture and have practiced myself:…
anabaptistworld.org
What's missing in church — discipleship | Anabaptist World
According to missional leader Mike Breen, a disciple is someone who is learning to have the character and the competency of Jesus. It’s about faithfulness and fruit. Or as Dallas Willard once described it: A disciple is what it would look … Continue reading
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This is a really useful “failed experiment” — which you point out is always “failing forward” in the spirit of the best science.
I think it would be useful to speak about this in terms of your spiritual journey: we’re using the Calling Into Gifts tool “The 5Ps of Calling” for this gap-year journey.
While you have clarity…
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The New Economics of Plentitude (Juliet Schor)
This is a lecture by Juliet Schor who is one of the leading thinkers on “the plentitude economy”: https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/the-new-economics-of-plentitude/
There’s also a video version on this page.
You can check out the Schumacher Center for losts of tweaks and alt-economic ideas.
centerforneweconomics.org
The New Economics of Plentitude - Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Schor critiques both the free-market and Keynesian paradigms of macroeconomics. She argues that in this day and age we need to construct new economic relationships, a new economics, which take into account ecological dangers, stagnation and inequality in the global … Continue reading
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What is the Gift Economy?
When we’re talking alt-economics, Robin Wall Kimmerer is one of the leading voices on gift economies. Here’s a decent podcast about her ideas:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/robin-wall-kimmerers-manifesto-for-a-gift-economy/
freakonomics.com
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Manifesto for a Gift Economy - Freakonomics
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Manifesto for a Gift Economy - Freakonomics
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Neversink Farms: Intensive Sustainable Human-Scale Farming
@Etcetera an I were talking about the critical need for small-scale economies in food production for alt-economies — like of the solar-punk aesthetic thing. A leader in this is right in our area: Neversink Farm, developers of Neversink Tools (built in TN).
neversinkfarm.com
Organic vegetable farm in the Catskill Mountains hosting dinners, events, farm workshops. There is a fully stocked store onsite and we offer tours.
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We’ve been thinking about alt-economies related to environmental restoration. One idea was harvesting barberry which as herbal/medicinal applications. The problem is the labor involved in harvesting the roots from the bush is very high. To that end, we’re thinking about equipment as a force multiplier. Here are some of the ideas we need to…
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