Resonate ECHO with Brian McLaren

Hosts: emergent Canada & Resonate
Guests: Brian McLaren, you

Date: Sat Apr 8th
Time: 7:30pm 'til we get tired
Where: Richview Baptist Church (1548 Kipling Avenue, Etobicoke, ON)
Added draw: fair trade refreshments
Cost: your time, energy, and you may have to fight a winged monkey

This relaxed, informal evening follows a full day of The Evolving Church Conference at Tyndale University. Brian, among others, is speaking at this event but we have enticed him to Richview with the promise of an armchair, good company and even better conversation. Although the format is still ... er ... liquid, we envision far more relational participation than hardcore lecture.

RSVP to Darryl Dash.

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Emergent is podcasting...

Emergent Village is now podcasting.  You can find the RSS feed here.

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Free wifi in Saskatoon

Saskatoon has a growing numbers of wireless hotspots.  Explore Saskatoon was one of the first lists of the locations and has just updated it.  Enjoy

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Church

Last night we read from Hans Kung's On Being a Christian:

The church of Jesus Christ is a home not only for the morally upright but for the moral failures and for those who for a variety of reasons have not been able to honor denominational teaching. The church is a healing community proclaiming the Father's indiscriminate love and unconditional grace, offering pardon, reconciliation and salvation to the down-trodden and leaving the judgment to God.

A church that will not accept the fact that it consists of sinful men, and exists for sinful men becomes heardhearted, self-righteous, inhuman. It deserves neither God's mercy nor men's trust. But if a church with a history of fidelity and infidelity, of knowledge and error, takes seriously the fact that it is only in God's Kingdom that the wheat is separated from the tares, good fish from bad, sheep from goats, a holiness will be acknowledged in it by grace which it cannot create for itself.

Such a church is then aware that it had no need to present a spectacle of higher morality to society, as if everything in it were ordered to be the best. It is aware that it's faith is weak, it's knowledge dim, it's profession of faith halting, that there is not a single sin or failing which it had not in some way or another been guilty of. And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping sinners at a distance. If the church self-righteously remains aloof from failures, irreligious and immoral people, it cannot enter justified into God's kingdom. But if it is constantly aware of it's guilt and sin, it can live in joyous awareness of forgiveness. The promise has been given to it that everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

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We have to meet eventually...

On of the things that kind of inspired the Resonate Greenhouse idea was something that Spencer Burke, Charlie Wear and I cooked up a couple of years ago and that was our Indie Allies Meetups that happened all over the western world.  It was in the days of Howard Dean's presidential bid and thousands of Deaniacs were meeting all over the place to get Howard Dean to be President.  One of us heard of the Meetups and we started one and mercilessly pimped it out on TheOOZE, Next-Wave, and a bunch of other sites helped out.  In Saskatoon they were just fun social gatherings where theologians, mystics, pastors, and anyone got together.  We talked about books, Family Guy, movies, The Simpsons, faith, Family Guy, spirituality, The Simpsons...

How's this for a date in Saskatoon.  March 25th at Alexander's Restaurant.  Upstairs.  8:30 p.m .

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