Andrew C. tells us that Fred Rogers died today. Fred rocked. He was an ordained Pressbutton minister. He had the coolest cardigan. I wish I had a woolen cardigan like his. And his love for the children of the world. Amen. Write your online tribute here.. Rev E.V. Hill also passed away.
Andrew Jones at 1:16 PM
Andrew C. rags on me for my WABI SABI chart. Hey - Let everyone hear this - The chart is from the book quoted at the bottom of the graphic. I only remade the graphic for the web. I am not a chart freak. I also squirm when teachers do their side-by-side dualistic contrast. If you want to chase down the meanings behind the chart, then check out the article and go deeper. Enough about charts! Dang, you guys are really LAME! Chart that!
Andrew Jones at 12:43 PM
Monkhouse has some images of Jesus that you need to see.
Andrew Jones at 12:20 PM
SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE WABI SABI CHART BELOW>
AC: I think that for the next week you should blog only in charts just to get people's attention concerning how silly this whole thing is becoming. Chart On! Alan Cross
Andrew: Thanks Alan for defending m against Paul Jackson. I agree. I should also tell you that Paul is a dear friend and mentor. I used to work for his church as Outreach Pastor in another incarnation, so I like making fun of him.
MS:I also had to smile when I saw that... remembering your statement that when people use power point you always feel like they're trying to sell you something. (Which I don't think is fair if it's just the best they know for visual reinforcement.... like.... me). Also reminded me of some extreme pomo promoters using lineal thought andcommunication to explain the difference between modern lineal thought.... always gets a good laugh from me." Marc Shaw
Andrew: You guys are mean to me. Not fair using my previous blogs as amo. against me.
Andrew Jones at 7:29 AM
Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Burst Detection Algorithm "The high-level idea is to analyze a stream of documents and find features whose behavior is `bursty': they occur with high intensity over a limited period of time."
Andrew Jones at 11:27 PM
Hey - I just looked at the Daypop Top Word Bursts and Tall Skinny Kiwi is mentioned. The word blogged about is . . . . . . "WABI " - go and have a look and then check out the wabiSABI Conference we are blogging about.
This may be my one day of FAME! Unfortunately, no one knows what a "word burst" is and no one will go and see how famous I was today. Such is life!
However, Reuters talks about wordbursts today and acknowledges Blogs4God a "semi-definitive list of Christian Blogs". Thanks Coop. Congrats Martin Roth - this is actually YOUR day of reckoning.
UPDATE: WABI SABI ARTICLE waiting for publication.
Andrew Jones at 10:01 PM
I had lunch with Andrzrej today. He is one of the leaders of SLOT.festiwal in Poland which is a great festival for a few thousand young people, half believers and half on the way. He invited me to teach 5 times at the next festival - late july - and i think i would like to get there this year and finally see the deserted monastery where they hold the festival. I also have to decide whether to go to Cornerstone this year or not. Trevor M. is asking me for a decision really quickly on whether I will teach there or not - i am thinking NOT, since it is really a long way to Chicago, and then out to Preoria. Still, it has been 4 years since i went there - we will see.
Andrew Jones at 1:11 PM
2 news pieces that show we may be moving into a security age.:
1: COMIC BOOKS ON CHRIST CONFISCATED in Greece today "The Life of Jesus", a comic book published by Oxy publications, was confiscated from major Athens bookstores by men of the Attica State Security yesterday.
2. Chennai, India (ENI). Voters went to the polls on Wednesday in
the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu for a district election
that has become a de-facto referendum on a controversial law
banning forced religious conversions.
Andrew Jones at 12:04 PM
24-7 Prayer update - Last week every minute of every day was filled with intercession in 23 Prayer Rooms around the world.
Andrew Jones at 6:56 AM
OOps. My apologies for the chart in the previous blog. Everyone is angry with me now. Senior Pastor Paul Jackson of Glenwood Community Church yells at me for committing a sin almost as bad as using powerpoint . .
"Andrew, Dare I say it? Your chart contrasting the two views is strikingly unambiguous- even modern. Perhaps I'm not thinking clearly, but I generally don't like comparison charts, because they don't address the exceptions- and some of us are exceptional:) "
Well, Paul, and others. You caught me with my pants down. What can I say . . except:
1. They are someone elses thoughts and chart (i did recreate the chart to make it look better)
2. I know how Kevin Miller must have felt.
I promise to make it up to you by giving my own thoughs on wabisabi really soon.
Andrew Jones at 11:04 PM
Monday, February 24, 2003
More thoughts for the Wabi Sabi conference coming up next month which happens in a REAL, Genuine, Southern Baptist revival tent in Austin Texas.Wabi Sabi? I just wrote an article on Wabi Sabi for others to publish. I have posted it at wabisabi.blogspot.com. I will place a link to the published article here when it happens.
Andrew Jones at 8:51 PM
Emerging Church Network have asked me to give some thoughts on Wabi Sabi. I have some rather undeveloped thoughts, which is actually very wabi sabi, and i have some images like this one, but I cant remember how to get into their blog site and post them.
Introducing 2 baby blogs, brand new, from two Jesus followers. Jonathan Finley is a part the OIKOS community/house/thing in Paris and Sarah Stuartis selling off everything in Perth, Western Australia, to move her family of 4 kids and her great lump of a husband Bruce (of Fair To Fumbling fame, overseas where God is taking them. In fact, God taking them to Prague, eventually, to be a part of our team. Sarah, is my sister and has been teaching drama and arts at Perth Bible College for the past few years. Bruce has been pastoring for 7 years. Their kids have been causing trouble for even longer. They will be providing pastoral care for the team and for the emerging churches around the world. Pray for them - They need to raise support - its a huge undertaking but I know God has great things in store for them.
Roger, the man behind Theopolis and their prayer labyrinth, gets surgery for local cancer (facial) today at midday, California time. Pray for a sucessful operation. Roger invited me to speak at his Youth Camp in California in 2000. Bless him. I am now an old man, approaching 40, and will probably never do a youth camp again. i will always remember him for that.
Andrew Jones at 7:50 AM
Chris Seay responds "Beauty is about reality, and the church has neutered the gospel. It's time to celebrate aesthetic actuality instead of evangelical fantasy."
Well done, Chris. And well done, Leadership Journal, for publishing it - you are good sports!
Andrew Jones at 3:25 AM
Dr. Jan Sokol, a committed believer, is the candidate for this Friday's election of a new President of the Czech Republic. God's man for the right time? Some of us believe so - pray for sucess this Friday.
UPDATE: It was really close but Claus got elected instead.
Andrew Jones at 3:22 AM
Back to work - answering a towering stack of emails - hold on, everyone, I'm about to get back to some of you.
Andrew Jones at 12:24 AM
Sunday, February 23, 2003
Well, the Wholehearted Prayer Weekend just ended. Chrissie (pictured left) led the final part, and the Tree of Life is now completed and standing in our patio. The English are flying home right now. Great people. We will miss them and look forward to the next one.
Andrew Jones at 8:20 AM
I had a chat with the Duke of Kent, today at the airport in Prague. Two of the English lasses told me I was in the company of royalty.One of them took a picture. The Duke and the Duchess, and their bodyguards, were taking the budget airlines. He was very polite. He told me he loved the architecture in Prague. He was wearing some very cool tweeds. I am guessing he is a very powerful man. I felt very constrained to pray for him so I took a seat and just prayed that God would woo him into his light and embrace him. I prayed that his wife would be able to guide him towards his Creator.
If you have ten seconds, why dont you also pray for him. You never know what God might do with that prayer, or what God could do with this man if he went the way of life, light, and love.
Andrew Jones at 7:32 AM
IndyChristian.com tell me that Steve Saint, of Beyond the Gates of Splendor fame, may be at Emergent Convention or one of the conventions in San Diego next week. I met his mother, Marge Saint , in the 1980's and she told us the story of how her husband was killed by the Aucas. Amazing story. Amazing woman.
The Life of David Gale, big hollywood movie, was written by ex-Bible smuggler missionary, and the dude (Charles Randolph) is my age -39.
Andrew Jones at 12:33 AM
Saturday, February 22, 2003
The Seattle Times says that nearly a third of Chinese Americans now attend church. BTW - London is seeing the same thing.
Andrew Jones at 8:23 AM
More prayer with the czechs joining the 14 english this morning. The tree of life is taking shape.
Wholehearted Prayer Weekend. Participants have gone up into White Mountain (where the 30 Years War started) to drum and pray. Others have been creating paper fruit for the Tree of Life, and leaves made of Scripture verses, that they hope to paste onto the tree for tonights worship and prayer time. The Tree of Life is getting a tribal look from an English artist. Good people, these English, but they do pray funny . . . "Oh God, thank you for this wicked day"
Andrew Jones at 1:49 AM
Friday, February 21, 2003
Simply Church "It is estimated that in America over 30 million people, who call themselves Christians, have given up on regular church involvement."
Help me out here, someone. I am very interested in hearing some more numbers of believers who do not belong. Do you know of some research or publications that have said how many Christians in USA dont go to church?
DallasNews: Non-ordained Catholics filling void left by priest shortage
Andrew Jones at 10:46 PM
A spy checks out IKEA, a world where design is married to industrial production.
Andrew Jones at 10:25 PM
Having a good time with Gerard at the Wholehearted Prayer Weekend. He believes the church in is Exile mode and not Truimphant mode, more like Babylon and not The Promised Land. Finding and holding the story is therefore more important than taking ground. this fits with my teaching on the church living in a Esther time and not a Queen Esther time. You have no idea what i am talking about, do you. My apologies.
Gerard also believes the millenium has changed the way we think and do ministry, which is why the things written only 3 years ago could not be written today - everything is sooo different. we were all sooo catastrophic back then, things were winding down.
Now we are all building and moving on. i noticed this also but did not ascribe it to the millenium as much as Gerard did.
Andrew Jones at 5:14 AM
Wheaton College, where "Scream'' director Wes Craven went to college, just lifted its 143-year ban on "most forms of social dancing.
Andrew Jones at 5:01 AM
Thursday, February 20, 2003
ABC12.com: "The New Evangelism," ABC12's Jason Carr explored how churches are adapting to these uncertain times.
Andrew Jones at 6:03 AM
I just ordered Jonny Baker's book, Alternative Worship as well as Postmission by Richard Tiplady who I met in Malaysia. Thank you Amazon.
Andrew Jones at 5:25 AM
SOME COMMENTS ABOUT THE WABI SABI CHART BELOW>
I had a chat with the Duke of Kent, today at the airport in Prague. Two of the English lasses told me I was in the company of royalty.One of them took a picture. The Duke and the Duchess, and their bodyguards, were taking the budget airlines. He was very polite. He told me he loved the architecture in Prague. He was wearing some very cool tweeds. I am guessing he is a very powerful man. I felt very constrained to pray for him so I took a seat and just prayed that God would woo him into his light and embrace him. I prayed that his wife would be able to guide him towards his Creator.
Having a good time with Gerard at the Wholehearted Prayer Weekend. He believes the church in is Exile mode and not Truimphant mode, more like Babylon and not The Promised Land. Finding and holding the story is therefore more important than taking ground. this fits with my teaching on the church living in a Esther time and not a Queen Esther time. You have no idea what i am talking about, do you. My apologies.
I just ordered Jonny Baker's book,