The conference that we went to this past weekend - was an incredible experience. It was almost like getting "saved" again (actually I was - from my misplaced understanding of "church")

Basic concepts -

Our Christology (doctrine of Christ) informs our missiology (doctrine of mission) which informs our ecclesiology(our doctrine of the church.) In simple terms being like Christ informs our ways of being in the world which informs our way of doing church. So often in our "church world (Christendom for short) our doctrine of the church informs how we do evangelism.

Also from a book that I am reading by one of the guys at the conference (Michael Frost - Exiles ) this interesting comparison...
Evangelistic - monologue, presentation with doctrinal points, formulaic
Incarnational - Dialogue, exchange of ideas, communicated through various conversations and experiences

Also the whole concept of third places and missional rhythms... I will blog more on these later with more detail.

Wrote a paper the past few weeks that was due today on a sythesis between healing prayer and spiritual direction. It does not go into great detail but covers the compatiblity of the two. It was a fun paper to write (as fun as a paper can be.)