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Intro to the Mosaic Stream of the Emerging Church

Posted Nov 1, 09:29 AM | 4 comments | by Editor | Link

In the latest email update from Mustard Seed Associates, Tom Sine shares an “Intro to the Mosaic Stream” based on what he writes about in the forthcoming book The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time, due out in March 2008 from InterVarsity Press.

In it he writes, “In the UK, more churches were planted in the last seven years than Starbucks were opened—over 1,000 churches as compared to only 750 Starbucks coffee shops. Interestingly, most of these church plants were ethnic and multi-cultural. ... While the emerging and missional leadership is overwhelmingly male and white, in this stream, God is doing something new through leaders from a number of different cultures. ...

“It is past time for those of us who are white to wake up to the reality that we are living in a new majority world. By 2060, the United States will become the first non-European Western nation—a nation of Latinos, African-Americans and Asians. Those of us from European roots will just be another group. All of our churches need to help prepare to not only live in this future but receive and celebrate the gifts from other cultures as well.”

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1kay 11/01/2007 07:16 PM

I was so inspired by Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy and more recently by Brian McLaren’s The Secret Message of Jesus, that when I started my blog (this is a bit cheezy), I was going to call it “The Mustard Seed Conspiracy.” I even looked up the words in Koine Greek to make it more unique. It was a tad complicated though, so I went with something more simple.

I love the concept of being a conspirator, a secret agent living and spreading the dream of God.

Anyway, thanks for posting about this book. I’m very excited to read it. It’s on my wishlist.

2Judy Naegeli 11/01/2007 10:26 PM

Have you read Tom’s book called “The Mustard Seed Conspiracy”? I think he wrote it back in 1981 or something, but its point is still relevant today.

3Eliacin 11/02/2007 04:14 AM

Thanks for spotlighting this.

You can read more from Tom’s book at http://mustardseedjourney.wordpress.com/

and more about the upcoming MSA conference with the same name as the book – http://thenewconspirators.wordpress.com/

4kay 11/02/2007 05:44 AM

I had no idea that there is a book by that name! Thanks for the heads up. Guess I should read it before I read The New Conspirators.

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