Why i'm i starting to blog?

Well i'm starting to blog so that i can make a little difference to a big world and so that i can get a small and humble opinion to the people who matter. Which in my growing post-modern view is you!

I've grown up in a Vineyard church setting and still attend one know, but i refuse to be stubborn and unwilling to change. So to answer the question 'Why i'm i starting to blog?', i would have to say, to put across what little theological and philosophical wisdom i have. I am merely a humble and broken sinner, in a world of beautiful people.

Why i'm blogging, is to show that we as a global Church are tackling the future with a distinct lack of history and therefore all i can deduce from this, is that history in certain context is repeating itself.

On this blog sight i would like to talk about the Emerging church movements and their beauty as well as their haste to push on with change. I've looked at the Emerging and Emergent church's ideals/views and then i've compared them to the Vineyard church's 'vision and values'. Doing this i've realised that there seems to be no vital changes to the values but the activism that the Emerging churches are pushing, is something that the Vineyard is lacking. However the case maybe, spokesmen for the Emerging churches need to evoke this change but allow time for other movements to catch up because men and women have devoted their lives to these churches and they need a time to contemplate and then through this attitude, they will be able to obtain a state of change.

So there are a few things i like about the Emerging and Emergent movements, one is the active political and non-political approach, a second thing is the openness to ask questions and not giving the answer, a third this is the persistence to not be the next fad for teens or gen X.

Well now that i've told you what i would like to discuss i would also like to tell you who i am, as a person. First and foremost i am a Child of God, secondly i'm a university student, studying 'Worship Leading and Spiritual Formation' at St Stephen's University, New Brunswick, Canada. I'm part of 'The Institute Of Contemporary & Emerging Worship Studies' and i'm training directly under Dan Wilt, with two others. Dan Wilt is the co-ordinator for Vineyard worship leaders in Canada and a great song writer but that speaks nothing of his life, only after meeting him can you see his true beauty, he is a strong, courageous character who also is as gentle as a father to all.

That's me done for my first blog but don't worry, there's plenty more where this can from.....

God Bless you, Dan