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The Allelon Article Library is a collection of articles, stories and thought pieces around the theme of forming leaders for the mission-shaped church. We welcome article submissions that share this purpose.

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	Business, the Gospel, and the Consumeristic Church An article from Moving into the Neighborhood Unrated: (0) by Mark Priddy Over the last several weeks there has been a lot of posting around Willow Creek (”Reveal”) and the “consumeristic church” conversation. You may want to check out David Fitch’s most recent post, Is The Consumerism Critique Legit? more...
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	A Conversation with Brian McLaren Part 1 Unrated: (0) by Alan Roxburgh We live in a time “betwixt and between” – a liminal space. As N.T. Wright, the Bishop of Durham so succinctly put it, “even change is changing”. Millions of Christians are wrestling with what this means for the church, for the communities they find themselves in and for the Globe. Brian McLaren is one of those folk and his writing continues to challenge the church as we attempt to... more...
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	What is Missional Church? A Continuing Conversation Unrated: (0) by Alan Roxburgh Over the past months we have been sharing with you a range of conversations and interviews with various people about missional church. In the Roxburgh Journal we have previewed interviews with Mike Goheen and Steve Taylor that focused on the question of missional church. In... more...
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	Worship As Evangelism Unrated: (0) by Sally Morgenthaler Two years ago I taught my last seminar focused solely on worship. A year ago I disbanded my worship resource site, Sacramentis. My colleagues were concerned. How could I leave the work I'd begun? Did it mean I no longer believed worship was important? Who... more...
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	Getting Back into the Neighborhood ... after a long summer away Unrated: (0) by Alan Roxburgh I’m sitting in my home office this morning looking out at some of my neighborhood as the day begins and wondering how to classify where I live (we all really do like definitions – figure out the kind of area, or categorize where I live and one immediately has a set of parameters around which to define a person). The house is about twelve minutes from downtown Vancouver (unless the bridge is jammed, in which case I avoid it until its clear). Twelve minutes in... more...
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	Spirit-Led Ministry Unrated: (0) by Craig Van Gelder Alicia was sitting at her word processor, typing a paper for her mission theology class, attempting to bring the ideas that she was working with into a coherent presentation. Then, there it was again, that pesky red underline that appears in Microsoft Word every time a word is typed that is supposedly misspelled. She thought to herself, Why did the professor... more...
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	Forming God’s People Unrated: (0) by Mark Lau Branson A few years ago, I asked a group of pastors to list the obligations and roles specified in our legislated denominational materials. As I listed these duties on a screen, the murmuring began. As leader of this retreat, I was supposed to... more...
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	How Not To Make Justice Into Another Program At Your Local Church Unrated: (0) by David Fitch When we pastors think about leading God’s justice in the church, our first inclination is to organize our congregation for a ministry. It could be a soup kitchen or an outreach event to the poor "down in the city" more...