Posts Tagged ‘restoration movement’

Now that the smoke has cleared, I thought I’d share a winsome invitation that my lovely assistant Helen handcrafted back in August. This fine piece of artwork was for an off-the-map conversation among missional-minded folk at ACU’s Summit this past September. Dubbed “A Post-Restorationist Powwow,” it turned out to be an inspiring evening with [...]


at the close of an epoch here at the priesthood, i have reposted our series “emerging then, emerging now” in sequence along with the pdf file below.  i enjoyed the dialog that this series generated.  thanks for entertaining me with your comments.  a few have mentioned using this paper in a class/conversation setting.  feel free [...]


“The past two years have been amazing, and I can’t remember the last time I felt so spiritually alive. God is constantly surprising us.”
–Melissa Jerkins of Immanuel Austin
To end our exploration of Stoneite commonalities on a lighter note, there is an old Restorationist joke that says the Churches of Christ don’t have bishops, just [...]


In line with his apocalyptic kingdom theology, Stone’s ecclesiology manifested itself in what can be described as a “missional polity.”* As such, Stone made room for the office of apostle, one who is sent. Ben Cheek (MS) notes that the common word “missionary” never appears in the New Testament. Instead, the [...]


Horace the Restorationist spews forth his vitriol.
Just as Stone would confidently constitute a church with just a few, Newton (DF) has found value in smaller numbers. “I’m not sure that big is better. A lot of us came out of big and we just reveled in the small once we came out of [...]