Controversial Spirit-filled minister John Crowder speaks for himself in this followup to my Charismatic Chaos or (Holy) Spirited Deconstruction? post. Want to read it? Then go here to my new blog home at MikeMorrell.org! Here you’ll be able to keep up with the latest. Please update your bookmarks & RSS feeds accordingly. Thank you!
Archive for May, 2008
Crowder & Morrell Dialogue: What About the Fam? (Or, ‘Sex-Crazed Charismatics?’)
Published May 31, 2008 Church , Faith , Friendship , God , Humor , Leadership , Uncategorized , Vocation , Worship 11 CommentsTags: alternative worship, archonology, baby Jesus, Ben Dunn, big tent revival, bizarre prophets, Brownsville Revival, charismataic playboys, charismatic, Cheech and Chong, Church Basement Road Show, church scandal, church unity, contemplatives, creative miracles, deconstruction, Destiny Image, dialogue, drunk in the Spirit, Emergent, emergent church, Emerging, emerging church, eschatology, family, focus on the family, glory dust, glory realm, glossolalia, God, Godka, gold dust, Holy Spirit, integrity, interviews, itinerant ministry, Jesus, John Crowder, Lakeland outpouring, Lakeland revival, manifestation, ministry, Morningstar, Morningstar Ministries, mutual respect, mystics, open heaven, Pentecostal, Pentecostal playboys, Pentecostalism, Peter Rollins, prophetic, prophetic satire, religious spirit, renewal, revival, revivalists, Rick Joyner, Rob McAlpine, Robby Mac, sex, sexual integrity, sloshed in the Spirit, Sons of Thunder, speaking in tongues, Spirit-filled, spiritual gifts, Steve Knight, Tallagega Nights, The New Mystics, third wave, Todd Bentley, tokin' the ghost, Toronto Blessing, Vaudeville, Vineyard, Voice of Healing Revival, wives, Worship, worship music
Guest Blog – John Crowder Speaks!
Published May 30, 2008 Books , Christian Mysticism , Church , Dreams , Emergent , eschatology , Faith , God , Humor , Scripture , Theology , Vocation , Worship 55 CommentsTags: alternative worship, archonology, baby Jesus, Ben Dunn, big tent revival, bizarre prophets, Brownsville Revival, charismatic, Cheech and Chong, Church Basement Road Show, church unity, contemplatives, creative miracles, deconstruction, Destiny Image, dialogue, drunk in the Spirit, Emergent, emergent church, Emerging, emerging church, eschatology, glory dust, glory realm, glossolalia, God, Godka, gold dust, Holy Spirit, Jesus, John Crowder, Lakeland outpouring, Lakeland revival, manifestation, Morningstar, Morningstar Ministries, mutual respect, mystics, open heaven, Pentecostal, Pentecostalism, Peter Rollins, prophetic, prophetic satire, religious spirit, renewal, revival, revivalists, Rick Joyner, Rob McAlpine, Robby Mac, sloshed in the Spirit, Sons of Thunder, speaking in tongues, Spirit-filled, spiritual gifts, Steve Knight, Tallagega Nights, The New Mystics, third wave, Todd Bentley, tokin' the ghost, Toronto Blessing, Vaudeville, Vineyard, Voice of Healing Revival, Worship, worship music
Controversial Spirit-filled minister John Crowder speaks for himself in this followup to my Charismatic Chaos or (Holy) Spirited Deconstruction? post. Want to read it? Then go here to my new blog home at MikeMorrell.org! Here you’ll be able to keep up with the latest. Please update your bookmarks & RSS feeds accordingly. Thank you!
What Is the Future of the Prophetic?
Published May 29, 2008 Church , Dreams , eschatology , Foresight , God , Leadership , Theology , Worship 8 CommentsTags: archonology, Ben Dunn, big tent revival, bizarre prophets, Brownsville Revival, charismatic, contemplatives, creative miracles, deconstruction, drunk in the Spirit, Emergent, emergent church, Emerging, emerging church, Enter the Worship Circle, eschatology, Foresight, futures, futures studies, futurism, glory dust, glory realm, glossolalia, God, Godka, gold dust, Holy Spirit, Jay Gary, Jesus, John Crowder, Kester Brewin, Lakeland outpouring, Lakeland revival, MA Strategic Foresight, manifestation, Morningstar, Morningstar Ministries, mystics, open heaven, Pentecostal, Pentecostalism, prophetic, Regent, religious spirit, renewal, revival, revivalists, sloshed in the Spirit, Sons of Thunder, speaking in tongues, Spencer Burke, Spirit-filled, spiritual gifts, Steve Knight, Strategic Foresight, Tallagega Nights, The New Mystics, third wave, Todd Bentley, tokin' the ghost, Toronto Blessing, Vaudeville, Vaux, Vineyard, Voice of Healing Revival, Worship
What great interaction on Charismatic Chaos or (Holy) Spirited Deconstruction! I will be interacting with all of your thoughtful replies soon. And while that post outlined my affirmations of this new bacchanal of the Spirit, I still have a few caveats, which I will be airing this week. But in the spirit of filial kindness or what have you, I’ve emailed Ben and John personally in hopes of getting them to give me some feedback first. I want to hear from them in their own words – whether in the tongues of men or angels.
I know they’re probably busy, so I’m giving them a coupla more days; they can even have a guest blog if they want.
In the meantime I wanted to share with you something my friend/professor/mentor Jay Gary wrote, reflecting on the US & European pneumatic prophetic movement. In studying Strategic Foresight, I interact with future possibilities through a variety of lenses: human, ecological, technological, economic, political and – yes – spiritual futures. I’m often asked by my charismatic and Pentecostal friends how my studies relate to the revelatory spiritual gifts of prophecy, words of wisdom, knowledge, etc…
I have yet to articulate a fully satisfying response. But the good Professor Gary – scholar, consultant, and futurist extraordinaire – sheds some light. Read on!
Charismatic Chaos or (Holy) Spirited Deconstruction?
Published May 27, 2008 Christian Mysticism , Church , Emergent , eschatology , Faith , God , Music , Theology , Worship 64 CommentsTags: alternative worship, archonology, baby Jesus, Ben Dunn, big tent revival, bizarre prophets, Brownsville Revival, charismatic, Cheech and Chong, Church Basement Road Show, contemplatives, creative miracles, deconstruction, Destiny Image, drunk in the Spirit, Emergent, emergent church, Emerging, emerging church, Enter the Worship Circle, eschatology, glory dust, glory realm, glossolalia, God, Godka, gold dust, Holy Spirit, Ian Mosby, Ikon, J.K.A. Smith, Jamie Smith, Jesus, John Crowder, Kester Brewin, Lakeland outpouring, Lakeland revival, manifestation, Moot, Morningstar, Morningstar Ministries, mystics, Nine O' Clock Service, open heaven, Pentecostal, Pentecostalism, Pete Rollins, Peter Rollins, prophetic, prophetic satire, religious spirit, renewal, revival, revivalists, sloshed in the Spirit, Sons of Thunder, speaking in tongues, Spencer Burke, Spirit-filled, spiritual gifts, Steve Knight, Tallagega Nights, The New Mystics, third wave, Todd Bentley, tokin' the ghost, Toronto Blessing, Vaudeville, Vaux, Vineyard, Voice of Healing Revival, Worship, worship music
Are you looking for one of my most popular posts – wherein I take a look at the ministry of John Crowder? You can find this post right here on my new blog, MikeMorrell.org! For more posts like this, please update your bookmarks and RSS subscriptions accordingly.
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(Holy) Ghosts of Revivals Past
Published May 20, 2008 Church , Faith , God , House Church , Life , Theology , Worship 12 CommentsTags: 1999, Assemblies of God, Blood-N-Fire, Brian Doerksen, Brownsville Revival, charismatic, David Ruis, Enter the Worship Circle, glory dust, glory realm, gold dust, Harvester, Holy Spirit, House Church, Kevin Prosch, Lakeland outpouring, Lakeland revival, Lindell Cooley, manifestation, Morningstar, Morningstar Ministries, Northgate Church of Atlanta, open heaven, PCA, Pentecostal, People of Destiny, Presbyterian, prophetic, Reformed, Reformed Calvinist, renewal, revival, Rick Joyner, Sam Storms, Sovereign Grace, third wave, Todd Bentley, Toronto Blessing, Trinity Vineyard, Vineyard, Vineyard music, Worship, worship music, y2k
So apparently in early April, revival broke out in Lakeland Florida, showing up in Ignited Church via the ministry of Todd Bentley. I just found out last week. It’s funny; 10 years ago I would have known about this probably hours after the first sparks. ‘Cause you see, I was a card-carrying Pentecostal from 1989-1995 or so, in A/G land and an indie church. I (along with my family) had a life-changing encounter with God the Holy Spirit and that was our spiritual home – a wonderful, wacky, exuberant and turbulent home, as it turned out.
America-Backed Atrocities in the Korean War Discovered: Troubling Questions
Published May 19, 2008 Absurdity , Church , Emergent , eschatology , God , Justice , Leadership , Life , Theology 8 CommentsTags: America, American atrocity, Antiwar, atrocity, Foresight, futures, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, just war, just war theory, killing, Korea, Korean War, lifestyle, nonviolence, pacifism, peacemaking, politics, protest, rally, Strategic Foresight, sustainability, United States, United States of America, US, War
“Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation’s U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.” More here (AP)
Disgusting. We aided in executing over 100,000 civilians (quite possibly three times that)–including women and children–in summer of 1950, while ‘back home’ we were revving it up for the (supposed) Leave It To Beaver decade. Mass extinction, all because our peace-loving democratic ideals were ‘better’ than their socialist/democratic/communist/revolutionary ideals. Preemptive idealicide. Jesus wept.
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The Becoming of G-d: What the Trinitarian nature of God has to do with Church and a deep Spirituality for the Twenty First Century
Published May 17, 2008 Christian Mysticism , Church , Community , Emergent , Faith , Gatherings , God , Scripture , Technology , Theology 2 CommentsTags: alt.worship, Cappadocian Fathers, Cappadocian Mothers & Fathers, consumption, cultural mysticism, Emergent, emerging church, Father, G-D, God, Greek, Ian Mobsby, information technology, Latin, Moot, mystical communion, postmodern culture, postmodernism, postmodernity, Son, Spirit, techgnosis, Trinitarian, Trinity, Western Christianity
Doesn’t this look fascinating? I know the Trinity isn’t always the most comprehensible of Christian spirituality ideas, but the older I get the more I’m drawn to it. Ian Mobsby’s newest literary offering looks like a must-read; let’s see if we can get it more widely published in the U.S. while we’re at it. In the meantime LuLu has it here.
Related, Ian has a U.S. & Canada book tour gearing up; try and see him here.
PS: Ian is part of Westminster, London’s Moot Community. You should listen to their podcast and read their blog if you don’t already.
Disaster & Interconnectivity, Action & Contemplation
Published May 13, 2008 Christian Mysticism , Church , Community , Ecology , Emergent , eschatology , Faith , Foresight , Friendship , God , Justice , Life , Scripture , Theology , Vocation 11 CommentsTags: Abba, action and contemplation, agape, centering prayer, China, China earthquake, Chinese earthquake, contemplation, contemplative, Cosmic Christ, creation, creation groaning, creation spirituality, creation's prayer, death, disaster, divinization, ecological, ecological degradation, Ecology, El-Shaddai, Emergent, emergent church, Emerging, emerging church, enslavement, eschatology, evangelical, evangelicalism, God, heartbreak, Holy Spirit, intercession, Jesus, murder, Myanmar, Myanmar cyclone, mystical, mysticism, natural disaster, original blessing, panentheism, prayer, radical interdependence, rape, sacred word, Spirit, the problem of evil, theodicy, theosis, torture
What a week. First the mass-deadly Myanmar cyclone and their government’s bizarre response; now this: tens of thousands are feared dead in a China 7.8 magnitude earthquake.
I don’t know what to make of all this. Of course, nearly 150,000 people on this planet make the Great Transition daily; this in itself is nothing extraordinary. But suffering is different than ‘mere death;’ it is more, and it is right that it elicits a different – pained – response in us.
I don’t know what to make of all this. But I do know – no, sense is more accurate – a few things:
We are all interconnected – matter, energy, spirit & biosphere. Not one organism or object on this planet or in this galaxy can claim independence from everything else. Christians believe that in Christ–the risen, ascended, cosmic Christ-all things coinhere. God in Christ is the All in all. This idea – God’s integral permeation of all reality – is normally one of great beauty. But from one vantage point at least, it offers cold comfort when contemplating life’s shadow side – rape, murder, enslavement, torture, ecological degradation, ‘natural’ disaster.
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