Andrew Root http://andrewroot.org Wed, 01 May 2013 20:19:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 The Relational Pastor and Inception http://andrewroot.org/the-relational-pastor-and-inception/ http://andrewroot.org/the-relational-pastor-and-inception/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 20:17:42 +0000 Andrew http://andrewroot.org/?p=545 Relational Ministry, the Pastor, and Inception

by Andrew Root

I have the hardest time turning the channel when it is on; I always watch even just a few minutes before reminding myself that I’ve seen it dozens of times. I can’t help it—I just find the Christopher Nolan movie Inception, starring Leonardo DiCaprio captivating.

I’m sure nearly everyone reading this blog has seen it; it was a smash hit during the summer of 2010. It is a movie about spies that have the technology to enter your dreams so they can extract your idea or secrets. Using a machine, DiCaprio, the lead sexy spy, can enter, say, a CEO’s dreams, seeking to discover the future plans for a business and then take the information and sell it to rivals. The movie has so many creative layers of psychology, consciousness, philosophy and espionage that it keeps my remote trigger thumb from moving past it.

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]]> http://andrewroot.org/familyscholars-conversations-podcast/feed/ 0 Tourists or Missionaries? http://andrewroot.org/tourists-or-missionaries/ http://andrewroot.org/tourists-or-missionaries/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:50:46 +0000 Andrew http://andrewroot.org/?p=534 This is an excerpt published in YouthWorker Journal from Unlocking Mission and Eschatology in Youth Ministry

Nadia and three other youth workers were surrounded by
a hundred young people in bright orange T-shirts that read “Operation Change: Being Jesus’ Hands in Making the World Right.” The shirts had been provided by the organization that had contracted to handle logistics for another mission trip.

 

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]]> http://andrewroot.org/tourists-or-missionaries/feed/ 0 Stop Calling Them Students http://andrewroot.org/stop-calling-them-students/ http://andrewroot.org/stop-calling-them-students/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:26:07 +0000 Andrew http://andrewroot.org/?p=513

The renowned sociologist begged us to stop throwing “student” in front of ministries. He explained that the dropout rate is high, and such a nomenclature eliminates many from finding a place in the church. But almost everyone read his remarks either with the shrugged shoulders of, I don’t get it or the rolling eyes of, Come on, loosen up, I think you’re drunk on statistical tables, feeling his comments as some kind of exhausting academic version of political correctness.

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