Transform West Coast Gathering
TransFORM Network (http://www.transformnetwork.org) and The Parish Collective (http://www.parishcollective.org) are joining forces to host a West Coast regional gathering on missional community formation, Friday-Sunday, April 29-May 1, 2011, at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle, Washington. Launched in Fall 2009, TransFORM held its first regional gathering earlier this year in Washington, D.C., which was attended by around 250 people. Participants in …
Creating Missional Community
I get asked all the time what I do. And its not a simple answer. I have been blessed with the opportunity to spend a lot of my time exploring how people gather in community, what some would call ecclessiology. I’m sort of an anthropologist in the church space. Over the last eight years I’ve been exploring how we gather …
Are Mission Trips Worth It
So a construction friend asked, “Wouldn’t it stimulate the economy better by sending our mission trip $$ and have locals build houses?” The idea being that mission groups commonly go to orphanages, and villages to build stuff. The average trip includes airfare, and hotels for a group of people. The heavy expense is not actually in the building project but …
Transform Round Table Episode 01
The first Transform Network Podcast is finally here. The official name is the Transform Round Table. The first dialog was on missional. This was one of the funnest things I’ve done this year and I really look forward to the next one in March. Click here to add the Podcast to your iTunes.
The TransFORM Missional Roundtable
Over the last 9 months I’ve been working with Steve Knight and so many great people in the development of the TransFORM Network. It’s a missional community formation network. It birthed out of the idea of taking the conversation to another level. As part of the networks development we’re creating a new podcast called the TransFORM Round Table. The idea …
Missional Community Formation – Part 3
This is a short paper I wrote on missional community formation for the Transform Network. I was trying to reframe the conversation around missional community. You can find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. ———————————————————————— The Larger Framing Story: The kingdom of God What if the narrative of Scripture provides the answer to the larger framing story? It would …
Missional Community Formation – Part 2
This is a short paper I wrote on missional community formation for the Transform Network. I was trying to reframe the conversation around missional community. You can find Part 1 here. ———————————————————————— The Great Emergence Tickle also documented the idea of The Great Emergence, a process that occurs every 500 years that fundamentally shakes up the church. Tickle suggested a …
Missional Community Formation – Part 1
Many of your know that I am part of The Transform Network, a missional community formation network. This spring we’re having our first gathering on the East Coast. I’m going to be speaking at the event. You should consider coming. It’s FREE. And yes, we are hoping to have a West Coast gathering. As we were in the early stages …
The Central Problem Of Missional
I need your help…and I’m also curious. I’m working on a project and am doing a little research on what it means to be missional. This is totally informal but I’m doing it anyway. Hopefully my question gets to the heart of much of our frustration with what it means to be missional. My question is this: “What does your …
The Role Of The Prophet
I wonder if someone ever said to Isaiah or Jeremiah, “How dare you criticize the what we’re doing!” I’m serious. If ever there is a thankless job in the Ecclessia, it is the prophetic voice, the one that has the very thankless job of reminding the church, “This is not who you are.” Prophet have a terrible job. They have …
