[the monkey and the fish] closing thoughts
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by Dave Gibbons I started writing The Monkey and the Fish about five years ago. It’s beautiful to see how the nomenclature and some of the ideas are starting to take root in the streams of American evangelicalism. Third culture is not just a fad, a cool thought, another ministry strategy, or some professorial droning. Third [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 7: ripples
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by Mike Fullerton Gibbons segues into this chapter from cWoWs with a quote from John F. Kennedy. It’s worth repeating a bit of it here, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 6: cWoWs: everyone plays
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by Jesse Giglio This chapter repeatedly gave me goosebumps in the way only an encounter with complete resonance can. Every other page had me thinking “yes, yes, yeah, right” almost to a fault as was difficult at times to actually slow down and read! Dave Gibbons takes us the around the world and to the [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 5: three questions that become the answers
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by Tom Wilhoit My assignment was to read Chapter 5 of the book The Monkey and the Fish by Dave Gibbons. The title of the chapter is “Three Questions that Become the Answers”. I could relate to Dave as he shared about his excitement of hearing a guest speaker and anticipating what the speaker was [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 4: liquid bruce lee
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by Doug Goodrich Black and white, sweet and sour, wet and dry, hot and cold, all are opposites but they also fit together in a strange bedfellow way. What I mean is that when you see them listed on the page together, you don’t think it’s odd. How about liquid and Bruce Lee? Do they [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 3: neighbor
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by Greg Glatz Chapter 3 of The Monkey and the Fish opens with Kierkegaard’s searing indictment of Christians as “scheming swindlers” who pretend not to understand what God expects of them. KAPOW! Next, Gibbons sweetens the tone with Desmond Tutu’s depiction of Ubuntu – “we are people through other people.” Beautiful! Both of these references serve [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 2: wardrobe
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by robyn blaikie collins So… the majority of this chapter is spent telling us why it shouldn’t be the only focus of the church to increase numbers. As someone on a creative team at a mega-church I found it interesting to be confronted and, then encouraged by what I read. It acknowledges that God was [...]
[the monkey and the fish] chapter 1: liquid
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by Shane Waldrop I must admit that being asked to do a blogging project on a book that I had not touched yet was a little daunting. Maybe I’m a cheater, but I like to have super-duper extra knowledge about something before I write about it. But this book has had no problem getting off [...]
[the monkey and the fish] introduction
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I’ve always felt like it’s important that Christians should have their thinking challenged regularly. I don’t think that it’s ever wise for a Christian to get too comfortable with where they are in their faith-walk. The church gets enough criticism for not ‘thinking’, so we don’t need to add fuel to the fire by acting [...]
group blogging project: the monkey and the fish
One question that I ask myself regularly is whether I am actually living God’s will for my life. And if you are a typical Christian, then you probably ask yourself that or similar questions from time-to-time as well. I believe that not only is it normal, but that it is important for Christians to evaluate [...]
