Mission • dwight j. friesen

Missional Consultation

Here is Alan Roxburgh’s report on the report on “Forming Leaders for the Missional/emerging Church consultation which took place in April. The event was sponsored by Fuller/Allelon and brought together 40 leaders from USA, Canada, UK, New Zealand and Australia.

Dwight J. Friesen June 19, 2005October 3, 2022

evangelism . . . being yourself?

Jim Henderson, Seattle-area evangelism guru, friend and director of Off-the-Map (not the Muppet guy – that was “Henson”) has a new book coming out on June 21st: a. k. a. “Lost”: discovering ways to connect with the people Jesus misses

Dwight J. Friesen June 1, 2005October 4, 2022

Episcopal Voicing of the Emerging Church

Reporter, Peter Strimer for the Episcopal Voice wrote “The Emerging Church” (June 2005) after visiting the “mission_shaped_church” learning party sponsored by Karen Ward and COTA. The article has a great cover photo of Ryan Marsh. And there’s a “dwight-quote” on

Dwight J. Friesen May 28, 2005January 14, 2021

passion: screwing around with a relational barometer?

“Where’s your passion?” “I’ve lost my passion?” “I can’t find my passion?” “Has anyone seen my passion?” I’m beginning to wonder whether passion might be a tad over-rated. Maybe we are passion-crazed like we are sex-crazed. Don’t get me wrong

Dwight J. Friesen May 24, 2005October 4, 2022

Consultation on Missional/Emergent Leadership

Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger at Fuller and Mark Priddy (Allelon) are bringing a group of Avant-church influencers together for a few days to discuss church, networking, training, leadership, etc. I head out very early this morning. This will be

Dwight J. Friesen April 26, 2005January 14, 2021

Limitations of Cross-Cultural Missions

One of the goals of cross-cultural missions – in some traditions – has to generate a more nearly universal Christian witness, one that has pan-human validity, thus to attain a universally applicable theology and Christian ethic; its primary goal is

Dwight J. Friesen February 13, 2005September 14, 2022

missionalization

So much energy has been spent wrestling with the church and institutionalization. Institutionalization happens when reified social constructs become untouchable. What is then often needed is some form of prophetic deconstruction of that social construct – enabling us to see

Dwight J. Friesen August 4, 2004June 9, 2022

Fulfill Not Abolish

Back in the 1920’s E. Stanley Jones wrote something to the effect of, Christ did not come to abolish Judaism but to fulfill it. Jones went on to build a case challenging the colonialist missionary movement of his day, arguing

Dwight J. Friesen March 1, 2004December 8, 2022

Post-Missional Presence?

I continue to wrestle with what feels like a growing tension between the Missional and Incarnational approaches to life. I may be way of base here, does anyone else feel this tension? Is it just me? I guess when I

Dwight J. Friesen September 11, 2003November 22, 2022

Why I’m NOT Missional

Link to: “Why I’m Not Missional” published by Next-Wave. peace, dwight

Dwight J. Friesen February 1, 2002October 24, 2022

Quest… In the Transition

North American culture is changing. So is church culture(s). Some have suggested that culture is reinventing itself at a faster pace than ever before… while none of us have lived at another time something inside me senses that this may

Dwight J. Friesen April 18, 2001November 5, 2021

questions asked

Recently I helped facilitate an “Emerging Leaders” conference sponsored by a modernist-mission denomination. All of the presenters/facilitators were asked the following questions, my responses are listed: Ministry Title? pastor / mystic / friend / artist / missionary / husband /

Dwight J. Friesen March 9, 2001November 5, 2021