by John Beckett | Jul 29, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Resource Hub
DOWNLOAD ARTICLE We’re facing a challenge in the church. Simply stated, the challenge is this: We serve an unchanging God in a rapidly changing context. As part of our Accelerator program at Seed we consider the reality that in the current marketplace any organisation...
by John Beckett | Jul 29, 2020 | Blog, Formation, Resource Hub
DOWNLOAD ARTICLE Some of you would be old enough to remember the Blackstump Christian music and arts festival that used to light up the Sydney Christian scene. The time when it was most influential was right in my formative teenage years. Thousands would gather at a...
by John Beckett | Jul 29, 2020 | Blog, News, Redemptive Design
Things are settling down. For many of us, and particularly those in our society who are the most vulnerable, the high intensity challenges of the last few weeks will continue. But on a broader scale, it feels like our society is slowly starting to emerge from the...
by John Beckett | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Redemptive Design
Recently I had a participant in one of our training courses in tears as she went through an imagination process. The tears came because of a realisation that she had lost the capacity to imagine. I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, so I’m always surprised...
by John Beckett | Jul 21, 2020 | Blog, Design and Innovation, Redemptive Design
Innovation is not a word that we readily associate with the Christian church or the faith-based sector. We’re seen as traditionalists, outdated, resisters of change. That perception is only partly true. Our Christian story requires both a firm ‘yes’ and a firm ‘no’ to...
