The "Kama Sutra" of an Emerging Church
by Paul Fromont
So, where does your church position itself on the “sensuality” scale? How multi-sensory, multi-layered and ‘multi-connectional’ is your church experience? What does your church (in both the sense of church as “building” and church as “people”) look like? What does it feel like? What does it sound like? What kind of ‘taste’ does it leave in your mouth? What does it ‘smell’ like? Are beauty, life, and vitality present?
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I Used To Be A Thief
by Chris Stewart
I got away with it. And I would still be getting away with it today if the Lord hadn't caught me and set me straight. My subject of criminal activity? Ministry. My victims? Parents of youth in my churches. That's right. I used to be a thief, and I was good at it.
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Soledad
by Julio C. Hernández
Adam understood the vanity of loneliness after spending some time in the Garden without a companion. I love how God saw his loneliness and had compassion on him.  I have spent time in the garden of aloneness, where I experienced growth and pain.
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Pub vs. Church
by Dave Crampton
Every Thursday night I walk into a room where loud music is playing and people are interacting with each other. Some are smoking, most are drinking, and a few are even singing. I am immediately greeted by name and asked if I want a beer.
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Reconciling Intentions
by Kevin Behrens
Yep, that’s me. And I want to tell you about a big bend in the road I’m steering into. Actually it feels more like a fork where the pavement veers sideways and the straightaway turns into gravel, then a rutty path. But the turn couldn’t be more sure, were a personalized road marker installed there years ago on the off chance I might drive by.
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I Was Part Of A "Missional" Community...
by Charlie Wear
For my three years pastoring the church, everything that I had learned about church growth and leading a church stopped working. As a person who believed that cause and effect were a predictable process, this was a hard lesson to learn. I also found out, like Charlie Brown, that "I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
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Church Fan
by James Mills
In most churches the regular attendee is forced to be a passive spectator of the show. My friend would rather be a participant so he is proposing that he become 'Church Fan.'
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Swimming Where the Fish Swim
by Fred Peatross
In an attempt to acclimate myself to this new environment I quickly scanned the room. Suddenly, I was aware of something unusual. For one of the few times in my life I was a part of the minority.
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Making Sense w/ Spencer
Since I have crossed the "bridge" between the institutional church and the "emerging" church, I wanted to speak to both audiences as "The Church." rather than as market segments of the church.
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