Shiver me timbers! It’s a Resurrectional Trotter Moment
Well, death is the final frontier but the resurrectional power of attractional-missional Christianity should not be underestimated. Some things just demand a return from the Other Side. So here I am, battered, beaten, with a slight touch of rigor mortis, but otherwise firing on all cylinders.
Critics of Ref21 often see us as dyed-in-the-wool reactionaries; but evidence is emerging (perhaps better `there is emergional evidentialosity’) that, far from being stuck in the Dark Ages, we have always been on the cutting edge of missional churchionalism. For example, read this book-plugging post by the late great Welsh deconstructionist and former Ref21 blogger, Gareth Baudrillard-Jones from January, 2007:
Planting Pirate Churches That Grow by Edward `Blackbeard’
Teach, DMin. Amidst all of the growth in reaching out to the
marginalised and the neglected, the one group which Reformed
Christianity has yet really to target is the pirate community. This
book will help you to talk to pirates in their own language and to
overcome anti-buccanneer prejudice in your local community. So get
ready to shiver your timbers, me hearties, and preach the gospel to them
scurvy sea-dogs before they make you walk the plank! `Highly
recommended’ — Long John Silver. `Aaargh, ’tis a good read, aaargh’
— Captain Kidd. A bit pricey at $50, but the free cutlass, eye-patch
and Jolly Roger make it worth it.
Yes, while others were wasting time with the idea of `Pastors for the Arts’, we — and only we — had seen the need for a pirate-specific contextual outreach for the attractional church of the new millennium. And yesterday, behold this came to our attention. Just look at the efforts made to transform the old-style pulpit into a facilitational outreach interface.
And yet there’s more. We were also the first to announce the development of the iPastor. Well, the world out there is catching up fast. Close, but no cigar — just yet!
Apparently, life does not imitate art so much as it imitates the Ref21 blog. We are surely the only truly prophetic voice in the missional/attractional/trenditional/out-of-the-boxonal world of ecclesial neology (I think you mean `theology’ — DelBoy).
