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I received this from the communications office at North Park Seminary today. Robert Webber was a gift to the church in some many ways. He will be missed. Well done faithful servant you did let your light shine.

It is with great sadness that we announce that Robert Webber passed away Friday April 26. We will be posting details on www.seminary.edu  and on the AEF Call web site www.aefcall.org  about the upcoming public memorial service in the Chicago area as soon as details are finalized.  Please keep the Webber family in your prayers.

Robert Webber at a Easter Vigil Seminar in 2005  

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emergent, new monastic, emerging, organic, ancient future, missional church. I haven’t been completely comfortable with any of these current labels for evolving ways of being the church. As I have been re-imagining what it means to be a follower of Jesus in my current cultural context  (urban,racially and socio-economically diverse) I’ve moved beyond emergent but had not named what that beyond was.

I was recently been asked to teach a class at a local seminary on the missional church. As I’ve been preparing for that I find myself growing increasingly more comfortable with identifying what I’m doing as missional. To be sure the missional label is not perfect and I can’t say I agree with every expression of missional but here are some things that appeal to my post emergent sensibility.

My developing view of the missional church is

• Cross cultural in its efforts
• intentional indigenous - culturally engaged but not culturally absorbed
• connecting with God who is already at work in our world
• incarnational proclamation of the gospel
• realigning or re-imagining all aspects of church life around God’s purposes
• culturally engaged but scripturally orthodox
• transforming community
• church planting reproduction
• creative and culturally relevant but connected to the historically church

Some language derived from  Friends of missional

So as I move toward the missional future I’ve taken the huge leap of posting a friend of missional button in my side bar. A  first of any kind of identifying button for emerging mosaic.

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Church of the Apostles in Seattle held an emerging church learning party This past Saturday at their meeting space (abbey). I want to play  and learn like that too. I’ve been trying to see if some other emerging church folks in W. Michigan would be interested in doing something like this. Maybe I’ll explore this with the EWM cohort.

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