andi's perspective

BLOG REFLECTION

Started blogging about 2 years ago for the inner compulsion to share thoughts, struggles, insights with sympathetic hearts. Never expected i would go for so long, or by doing so find friends all over the place...

This is how my current visitor map looks like:

  Thanks, folks, for still stepping by this site! :)

BLOGGING IN 2006

My second year of blogging is coming to its end. Posted about every 4th day. Here is a small reader's digest of my last year's blogging as a quicklink to those posts which received a particularly good echo or were of especially high importance to me:

from my bio(graphical)theology:

• CHURCH VERSION 1.7 (still get quoted on this one - not only favourably though)
• POOR (not everyone understood what i mean)
• SPEAK UP AND SHUT UP (i keep promoting this)
• AN ALTERNATIVE REALITY?! (for a courageous friend, but not only)
• PS. 118 (for bible-geeks only)

from my trend-news reports:

• MISSIONS DIRECTORS IN BASEL (reflecting on the state of cp today)
• CATHOLIC SCP (one of my MAJOR encounters this last year)
• 3 YEARS TIME TO GET GOING (speaking in riddles like Him)

from my research news:

• emRG WIKI (one of my favourite subjects last year)
• EVANGELICAL EUROPE (get's found a lot via google)
• HOTSPOTS IN EUROPE and DESPERATE EUROPE (essential research results 2006)

from my jewels found along the road:

• PEARL OF THE NORTH

Here also is the reference to my recap of 2005.

Thanks for glancing at this page once at a time :)
May you be blessed for the God-year 2007!

MY BLOGGING IN 2005 (E/D)

Looking back on my 2005 posts. Started blogging February and have been posting around 2 times a week, mostly about my travels, my reflections and the trends that i observe across the BODY in Europe.

Here is a small readers digest as a recap of the posts with the best echo or greatest personal importance:

my biotheology: impacting society as priests and kings,  the nature of leadership (2,3,5 in the series), the self-organizing nature of bottom-up relational church, der "grausame Gott" (bible study on the "cruelty" of the OT God - in German)

my experimential theology: explaining the Gospel through Tarot cards, rephrasing the Gospel to the neo-spiritual mind

others: Magdeburg - City of Mission & Reformation, digging into Jesus' rabbinical context, connecting reformational hearts across Europe

Thanks to every random reader of my thoughts who contributed through comments and email reactions! Your feedback has been encouraging, educative, heart-warming and stimulating. Your participation has made my hours put into blogging worthwhile. THANKS 8.-)

--- DEUTSCH---

Ein sorry für mein vorwiegendes Englisch-Blogging an alle eher deutschsprachig orientierten Freunde! Eine Übersetzung anzufügen schaffe ich leider zeitlich nicht immer. Betrachtet es als gesunde Herausforderung an euer Englisch ;)

Kleine Liste einiger meiner (auch) deutschsprachigen Blogposts 2005 (die vermutlich Interessantesten farbig):

LEADERSHIP AUSBILDUNG, DOCH IN DIE POLITIK, MAMMON, Eltern - Lehrer Gespräch, Connect Deutschland, forum gemeinde innovation, warum "bloggen"?,  roots of our Revelation, so much more!, probleme mit "leiterschaft"?!, gottes-dienst, gut gesagt, what the heck is "church"?, priestly Arwen, PASSION, Der "grausame Gott"       

warum "bloggen"? (D)

Wie jemand Zeit und Energie ins "Bloggen" investieren kann, ist für viele immer noch ein ungeklärtes Rätsel. Andrew erkärt, wieso es von vielen, die gemeinsam auf dem Weg sind, sogar als geistliche Disziplin erlebt wird:

"Wer bloggt, der ist auf dem Weg...

• öffentlich Gottes große Taten zu verkündigen
• in gegenseitiger Rechenschaft zu leben
• Mut zur Verletzlichkeit zu haben
• seine Schätze/ Erkenntnisse mit anderen zu teilen
• schöpferisch tätig zu werden
• korrigiert werden zu können
• Isolation zu überwinden und Beziehungen zu bauen
• vom Reich Gottes zu erzählen
• authentisch zu leben
• Wertvolles für die nächste Generation zu bewahren
• seine Umwelt wachsam wahrzunehmen.

Hat die Postmoderne vielleicht doch auch positive Seiten? ;-)
 

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NOTE TO MY READERS

THIS IS A CATEGORY-BLOG - please use my CATEGORIES to find the subjects of your interest:

my bio-theology reflects insights from my theological journey and reflects my current credos together with their biographic development. Big part of it are my thoughts on emerging theology and relational ecclesiology drawing insights from disciplines such as chaos, compexity, systems, network, and emergence. it is "converging theology" in the sense that it is integrative and tries to combine the treasures of the past with today's increase in understanding.

my xpm-theology reflects my daring experiMential theological ventures trying to bridge the language difference between today's neo-paganism and good old Christianity. i am obviously a bloody learner in this field.

my daily-travels is a more periodical snap-shot diary from my forths and backs which would primarily interest xtremely close friends, but not many else.

my trend-news is where I report my latest observations from the various emerging horizons that I happen to browse through in word or person. nothing for the avant-garde, more a rubrique for those interested in quick snapshots of the wider world and the large picture out there.

my research-news is a briefing about progress, hightlights and observations related to my efforts of facilitating collaborative missions-research on a European scale to paint the big picture of what God is doing in our continent. i am doing this as part of the DAWN European Network team.

my resources is where I share word about my best resources and freely offer recommendations - mostly in form of commentated links.

my jewels-findings gives glimpses into the beauty of the ONE that happen to catch my eye, mostly in people, communities, and situations, sometimes in conceptions, architectures or nature, and often in corporate identities like cities.

my beloved country reflects my explorations into the identity and "redemptive destiny" of my German home-country, stemming from my desire to see the nations and peoples of our continent reflect and proclaim the glory of God together - hand in hand.

generally all of my postings are provided as my perspectives as a hopefully growing contribution to the wisdom of the larger community of international friends that I happen to be bound into by godly joy and providence. it's easier to remain silent, but there's nothing as rewarding as sharing the riches you have found. so i need to, too...

all of my postings across my categories are intended to stimulate imitation in the reader: YOU are invited to SHARE your insights, your news, your recommendations, and the beauties that you glimpse. SYB = "Share Your Beauty".

if my blogging could stimulate a wider beauty-loving-community to share their beauty including you, sharing YOUR bio-theological path, YOUR xp-erimential spirituality,  the news that YOU see, the resources that YOU have been found, and the beauties that you meet - all of us would be richer, HE would be more glorfied and world would be more healed. be welcome :)

-> hodu l'adonai KI TOV!! :)