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| Cruising the Gospel |
It's one of the reasons there have been so few posts on Journeys of Heart and Mind recently. So here's what I've been doing and why.
Cruising the Gospel sprang from a desire to focus more on the person, words and actions of Jesus. To this end I've been reading a short passage every day and writing some notes on what I'm discovering.
If you'd like to join me why not read along and leave comments with your own thoughts?
Forgotten Ways - Alan Hirsch in The Forgotten Ways tells us that making Jesus the centre of all we are and do is an essential element for rapid and spontaneous church growth. This is not just a matter of studying his life, it's not enough to know about him; we need to live him and breathe him and be deeply affected by him from moment to moment.
Not only that, Alan has concluded that having Christ at the centre is just one of six essential strands that we in the West have forgotten (although they remain latent in all of us and can be reactivated).
For each of the six he suggests things that we can do to influence our thinking in useful ways. Cycling through the gospels is one of these.
Come and join us. Let us know what you think. Visit Cruising the Gospel, sign up for the emails, or grab the RSS or Atom feed for your favourite news reader. Join in the fun.
Questions:
- If you don't have Christ at the heart of everything, how can you even be a disciple?
- Other than cycling through the gospels, what else might you do to keep Jesus central?
- Why not take a trial run in Matthew 16:13-28?
See also:
- About Alan - The forgotten ways
- Alan Hirsch at Newforms - Journeys of heart and mind
- Christianity without Christ - Verge network
- Forgotten ways, The - Amazon
- Forgotten ways, The - Urban mystic (links to audio of Alan)
- Index of posts - Cruising the gospel
- Introduction - Cruising the gospel
- Obey, obey, obey - Journeys of heart and mind
- Recent posts - Cruising the gospel
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