​ If you've spoken to me recently about church and the future there will be some key phrases which will keep popping up. (If you've not picked my brain of late then let me buy you a coffee and we can chat.) Some of the phrases which you will hear are "missional", "outward facing", "discipleship", "communitas", "de-emasculating", "incarnational", "offensively gracious", "rejection of one man ministry", "counter cultural generosity" and many others. While any of these would mak

At the Rock we are currently talking about how we talk about Jesus. We've been exploring the idea that when Jesus speaks about himself he does it in ways that are really closely aligned to the context he finds himself in. He changes the metaphors and ideas he uses to talk about who he is. He frames the conversation in the places, events, and stories of the people who surround him. We've been exploring how Jesus talks about himself, the way the New Testament writers talk abou