John Bowen, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:06:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg John Bowen, Author at Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com 32 32 170042892 Living as an apprentice in the Kingdom is essential to the Anglican life—even if it won’t save our church https://anglicanjournal.com/discipleship-flavour-of-the-month/ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 14:00:18 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=173845 Jesus's last instruction to his apprentices is often known as the Great Commission: “Go and make disciples.”

But what if we translated that into the language of the trade school? “Go set up satellite campuses to train apprentices in the ways of the Kingdom.” Which of course is what they did, all around the world. We call them churches.Why are we encouraging this thing called discipleship? Because discipleship is the essence of the Christian life.

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]]> 173845 Is discipleship just the flavour of the month? The reality behind the buzzword https://anglicanjournal.com/is-discipleship-just-the-flavour-of-the-month-the-reality-behind-the-buzzword/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:11:22 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=173744 First in a two-part series “Discipleship” seems to be everywhere. There are books about discipleship and sermons about discipleship. Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, suggested in the Journal two months ago that baptism isn’t just entry into the church, but also the gateway to—you guessed it—discipleship “Discipleship is for every […]

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]]> 173744 The four kinds of leader we need https://anglicanjournal.com/the-four-kinds-of-leader-we-need/ https://anglicanjournal.com/the-four-kinds-of-leader-we-need/#respond Mon, 22 Feb 2016 12:49:00 +0000 http://localhost/anglicanjournal/index.php/article/the-four-kinds-of-leader-we-need/ Leadership comes in many shapes and sizes-not just one. And different situations call for different styles of leadership. So what types of leader does the church need right now?

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