My previous post on The History Of Belief really got me thinking about the churches dialog on contextualization, which essentially asks, “How do we contextualize the Gospel in order for people to understand and believe it. Armstrong tweaks that notion by shifting the focus back towards following in the Way in order to understand and …
Missional Small Communities
If you are a pastor I highly encourage you to watch this video. In the video, Ed Stetzer explores the value behind organizing around missional communities. He spends a lot of time sharing some great metaphors around the yo-yo, which I thought was very insightful and creative. He also explored the easy way of being …
Creating Missional Community
Popout Matt Carter // Missional Small Groups from Todd Rhoades on Vimeo. I so wish every pastor in the world would watch this video. Chips and dip, a living room and the Bible do not make a missional community. I really was amazed at Matt’s honesty about the process. And it is that honesty that …
What’s Wrong With Missional
Popout Josh Reich at Revolution put this together the short but funny video and it illustrates a unique problem. It’s possible to find our identity in what we do, even serving, in such a way that we miss why we do it. And in the process we miss love.
Missional/Attractional Debate
Recently a friend of mine, Tyler, wrote a post entitled My problems with the missional church. The title was intentional to stir dialog and debate. But it highlighted for me how we can tend to find ourselves in camps. And when we set up camp, defining our own boundaries, we involuntarily exclude someone, who then …
A Pastor Abandons His Church
Posted an interesting article that I posted over at Emergent Village. It’s called “Pastor Abandons His Church.” Love to get your thought on it over there.
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