emerging – Salvaged Faith

Why the Revised Common Lectionary is the perfect model for Emergent Church

Katie Z. — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:33:00 +0000

Random thought came to me tonight. How it came to me is the subject of my next blog…. but in any case. Every week, people all across the world use the exact same texts to tell the stories of scripture. We start with the exact same thing. And then we take those few words, those...

traveling light

Katie Z. — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:27:00 +0000

This morning I embark on a trip to Indy for emergingumc 2.0. And although it’s a three day thing – I’m taking with me just one bag… my carryon. I’m packing light. I have just the basics. And it feels good. Not that getting through security in our little city is difficult or anything. But...

Link to a United Methodeviations post

Katie Z. — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10:00 +0000

Dan Dick makes a distinction between what he sees as mainline emergent and the roots of the emergent conversation and people out there who are living it

making members, making disciples

Katie Z. — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:02:00 +0000

At my church, we have a pretty significant number of people who are “constituents” of our church and not official members. For various reasons, these people want to be an active part of our congregation but do not want to take the vows of membership and officially become United Methodist. And yet, many of those...

senseful worship

Katie Z. — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:48:00 +0000

I am a strong believer in using all of our minds, bodies and souls in worship. And one of the primary ways that I try to encourage people to reach that place is by thinking of all of our five senses and the worship experience. What are the things we hear? What kinds of smells...

attractional or missional? programmatic or project driven?

Katie Z. — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:06:00 +0000

At emergingumc: a gathering we talked a lot about becoming, or reclaiming the idea of a missional church. There are all sorts of really neat diagrams to help visualize what this would me, but basically, in an attractional church, 80% of the church resources and offerings and what happens in the life of the church...

Katie Z. — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:54:00 +0000

wow, I haven’t blogged on here for a while. I guess that’s what happens when life gets busy and different priorities are set. I really want to get back into this, however, as I prepare for heading back to Iowa… yeah, I’m doing that in a few months, and I have been appointed to a...