tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57367252012-01-09T04:29:47.930-05:00We're all a legacy of St Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne 650ADrobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07840199434035535754noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5736725.post-1095084511034478292004-09-13T10:07:00.000-04:002004-09-13T10:08:31.036-04:00

this site makes me think. optruth.com

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Hey, I've run-helped-been the sleepover dad for 5 parties in 6 days. I feel like Martha Stewart, not. Anyway thanks for all the GREAT comments. Seems larry need some punctuation and one-thought-at-a-time help. So I'm on to Gareth's post specifics. I'll get to that tonite. But before I go... I noticed that the only real negative or truly disagreeing thing on all 24 comments was the fact that I

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All those wonderful comments...toast... just cause I changed colors! Great. OK..secretly, remember everything you wrote, and which post it was on and re-enter everything. It will only take a few minutes. Really... it'll be fun!!! Really, if you liked something from a previous comment, comment here, and I'll try to connect for you. Sorry!!! rob

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The following is a re-cap of a conversation Gareth (from mootblog), Jonny Baker and I had in nashville. At our meal of barbecue and beer, I launched into an as yet unwritten analysis of UK vs. USA emergent culture.This shows a gross generalization of us and uk churches. It isn't intended to offend, but rather to give a way to see some of the larger picture of church culture. Gareth's re-cap of

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In the comments on my last post, Marko from Emergent/YS shares some great insights. He also gives his e-mail address if you want to be a part of the solution next year. Jonny Baker and Gareth (mootblog) have challenged me to express more on the US vs. UK on emergent issues. I've done a rather long post, but I'll work on it more tomorrow. Thanks for welcoming me back! more tomorow, rob

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So back from a self imposed bloggin vacation. Bugged by at least 8 folks at the nashville convention to start bloggin again. Here goes. I'm learning that I should write shorter posts, and more of em. I agree with most of the posts I've seen that the large group meetings need to resemble emergent culture rather than any old YS conference. How do we change 'em? Well they're gonna hate me, but

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Vince Lombardi. St Vince? Yes, he was a football coach. He is the most famous professional football coach of all time. The Super Bowl trophy is named the Vince Lombardi Trophy. Under his control, the Green Bay Packers dominated the NFL in the ‘60’s. Because of their many NFL championships, and winning the first two Super Bowls, Green Bay is nicknamed “Title Town.” His players and the fans loved

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I did. From L'occitane. I saw some at a cool resturant. I told myself that I was getting it for Lilly. Birthday and all. But it was for me. It was lavender. I really like it. Should I warn others to have better "gaydar" about me. Just so you know, I love Le Mis too! Memorized the songs. "QueerEye" here we come? Of course Lilly could care less. Whatever!

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Just wanted you to know. I've been searching for it, and I cant find it anywhere. Maybe it has been misplaced, maybe McLaren lost it in his turtle tank. Many people belive there is one and they don't want to be a part of it. I don't believe it's really there. It's kinda like WMD, it's there but we'll never find it. Maybe the Iraqi's are hiding the emerging church. Maybe it's in a spider hole

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It's been two weeks since Lilly and I posted on the "women at Mayhem" issue. The result has been amazing, overwhelming and slighly odd. So many people have e-mailed, blogged and commented that it is clear that the issue is really being discussed, and some people (many women) are speaking their minds for the first time in a while Both Jonny Baker, and his mate Jenny, and Maggi Dawn in the UK as

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I wonder how this work of building relationships in the emerging/simple/organic/post/wabi church is any different than in any other part of western life. We still end up liking the people we like; the people we have lots in common with. Is your experience different? Do you have relationships with people you irritate you, make you feel uncomfortable, or just in general bug you? Or with people who

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WELCOME TO THE 20TH CENTURY! DOH!

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Great name for a new band. Reading the "Rule of Benedict" for the first time without lots of commentaries. This guy had a great heart. Guess I'm learning that the volatile mixture of adrenaline and testosterone can have devastating effects on the church, and how opposite from that is the Rule. And how all the fruits of the spirit seem so disconnected from my "male" assumptions. Also:

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My post from a few days ago has become a part of a wonderful discussion. Some of the comments on blogs I've read today have been terrific. I didn't know that a few paragraphs could create such fervor. Can we retain the good and healthy discussion and refrain from any personal attacks? Some comments and blogs attacked people they didn't know. Yikes! For those of you who don't know my history, I

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Did you ever want to go "Where nobody knows you name?" Just a thought! Rob

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I came to the reality this past weekend that I'm still "living down" the person I was in the '90's. I was a church growth consultant. And I was good. I was known as a 747 in trousers. It's true. But the medication is working. I'm much nicer now. As I move to a more monastic, missional, community based faith; I sometimes find being at conferences like Mayhem this past weekend a bit uncomfortable

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Whazzup with the Today Show? Blogs are for teenagers to share their innermost feelings? I must live on a different planet. Thank you God that I don't have to read the confused feelings of teenagers on their blogs, but I get to develop a new community of electronic dreramers and doers about a new life in jesus. late rob

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I got a few rants that have been welling up inside for a few months. So those will come out over the next couple of weeks or so. The Lewins are all OK now! The flu which was our no.#1 christmas present has passed, and we've had a non sniffle week. A miracle. The new year opportunity for reflection has been interesting. I guess the last year or 2 have been pretty wonderful. And it's thanks to

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When I started up this little clambake of a blog, I wanted to tell the story of how I came to believe the stuff I do. Not that normal people care, but you might. And when others tell me their stories it makes huge changes in me. I guess that’s because it’s utterly real, utterly personal, and the real aquarium in which others can see the action of God in our world, in people, and in the earth. I

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Way of the Heart Been a while. Missed you. Another Christmas with kids. Buying gobs of stuff they really want. Today. Actually we've got it down to a few things they really do want and will use instead of the "present orgies" when they were 5 or 6. We got so many presents since we had the first grandkids. So one year we had to stop for a lunch break, and go back to work at opening the rest of

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Well, I've returned from a one-week SILENT retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. They have real monks there. Real ones. No computerno nothing. Just me, some monks, my journal, and a bible. What a beautiful place. And the spirit is so deep it's intoxicating. And when you've spoken 5 sentences in 5days: don't go to WALMART. It kinda wrecks it! It's been fun just now to read Andrew Jones

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Well, Im back. It's been wild. And while Lilly has kept bloggin Ihave been mute for about three weeks. Feels like three months. Hudson went back to school today for the first time in a month. YIPEE! Our world can return to semi-normal! More later! Rob

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Well... we spent most of the day at Children's Hospital. Dept of Infectious Disease. And with all their expertise, we're still no further to an answer. Hudson may not be himself till christmas, if then. Please pray for him and for us, and for all the parents out there with sick kids. This really blows. Hudson just wants to be himself again and get back to school. He's missed more than a third of

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It's Sunday nite the 19th and I've spent most of the weekend working to find out what really is the matter with Hudson. Many of you have met his wild, 11-year-old self. We really need your prayers for him. He's had pre migrane level head aches for all the time we've been home from the UK, depression is somewhere in this too, and he can sleep for more than 15 to 17 hours in a day. He's throwing

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What if a blog is just one long rant? Will you leave? Well, we need your prayers. I know God is good and all, but it just feels like all the places, people (read, you), and experiences we've had over the last two years are just a giant clamp. It's squeezing tighter every day. We have to change our lives to honor what we've learned and done. It's not a bad clamp, but it's forcing our lives to

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Why isn't a promise a promise? Why do 20 year marriages end in divorce and destroy everyone involved? Today we heard of the second of our friends in 18 months to call it quits. What do you say? How can you help? By the time we hear, it's too late, it's over, thanks for caring. This is such crap! Rob honey... 1. This happens and it will be better for them in the end. Crap! What about the kids,

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Maybe with some brussel sprouts on the side. The perfect kid foods. Why am I just now learning about Keller Williams? Loser! What an awesome talent. See www.kellerwilliams.net I want to go to a concert soon. Talk about creative. His music is so EmergingPostWabi; it's great. Each song is a journey, and the first time you hear it you don't know where it will end. Just him and a gituar.

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Great, Now I get e-mails saying that adult, post 5th grade readers, even employed people don't understand my writing style. Yo, Britney, my spirit is bruised. Not. All-righteee-then! Think movies folks, Dude! Sweet! Think 8th grader. Think stream of consciousness. Sorry that I'm random or ADD or lost, this is my freakin' blog! Loo-whoo-zaaa-herrr. And for you serious types believing that somehow

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What does all this jabber about money and jesus mean. Especially for an emerging world? For me? It simply means I'm not a freak. And neither are you. All my behind the scenes doubt about this whole process of acquiring and buying and image and lust isn't so wrong afterall. It also validates all the doubters along the way. Like Aidan or the bro's of St. frank. Refusing to be "economic man" and

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Hey, I'd like to get some comments on all this. So contact me at rob@roblewin.com. You'll be glad you did. ? Plus; Lil and I would love to get some pics from Greenbelt and WABI-sabi if you got 'em. E-mail 'em to the same address. Thanks rob

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That's the phrase my dad would use when he would barely stop for a red light, or when he felt he'd caught somebody doing something they shouldn't have. It's a kind way to say "stop" (not neee to an old woman) to attempt to avoid using profanity. Attempt. Anyway lots of feedback from the last two posts. "Well are we just supposed to quit work?" Uh, no that's not doing the thinking part. Here

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Rob... Jesus was a carpenter! You boob. This hadn't been posted 15 minutes before the urban legends emerge. Sorry, his dad was a carpenter. I'm real sure jesus knew how, but he didn't do it. Nothing in the NT records him working, even in wood, for money. We have three years of opportunity and nothing. Plus, what did he ever encourage his boys to do. Work? Uh, not really. Give to Ceasar and all.

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OK. So Baker shames me into continuing this little clam bake. OK, I can take a challenge. Where were we? Well we were on the last year's worth of Jenga sticks! But today I'm processing about money still. I'm about half way through a book (writing not reading) on 5 primary points of jesus life which have just blown me away over the last year or three. Today it's the unemployed bit. Jesus gives

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I know I've been sharing with everyone just how we got to the place we are now, but today I must interupt with some real life. Part of where I am now is a new joy over work. I have the control I've wanted for many years, the capacity to really earn what I want and the flexibility to vacate when I choose. Why God allows opportunities at certain times, well he and I will have a little "come to

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What? Celts? Oh yea, Aidan and friends. I suppose that began to form about 2 years ago. Maybe three. In the summer of '01 we spent a month in the UK to see all the folks we'd either met or heard about with regard to experiential worship. And we spent 2 weeks of that time doing summer work at Oxford. I took a two hour class from Esther DeWaal, the Pete Sampras of things Celtic. I was inspired and

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This process began in the summer of '97. I was growing increasingly frustrated with church as usual. On our way back from the Outer Banks and 2 weeks of vacation Lilly (my wife of 18 years) and I read Jimmy Long's "Generating Hope". We both said that this was more us, and began to slowly realize that lots of other folks were thinking the same thoughts and having the same frustrations with normal

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Sure, more vampires. That is, more implications of how reductionism has affected our experience of Christ. Just one more for today: If the only goal in life is to attend church regularly, then the only job of spiritual leadership is counting those who attend. Hence the focus on church growth here in the states. If 500 people attend my church, I'm really "better" that you if you have only 250

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Yep, freakin vampires! It's the first "jenga" stick that made my view of discipleship and church life deconstruct. I didn't go looking for this, but it sure found me. Vampires, right. Sorry. It's a quote from Dallas Willlard, a prof and all around cool guy fron UCLA. The messenger of this was Todd Hunter, and it went something like this. "Christians are vampires, they only want Jesus for his

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So. Why blog? A few things come to mind. One is I'd like to share how I came to the beliefs I hold now, compared to the ones I held just 3 to 5 years ago. My hope is that beginers on the "New Road" will feel less alone and get courage to continue their journeys. Another is that alot of the folks I want to stay in touch with write and read blogs. And finally I want to add whatever part I can to

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This is day 1 of Rob Lewin's new blog, Aidan's Legacy. Hope you enjoy! Rob

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