What Church Planters Can Learn from American Slavery

Posted by on Jun 2, 2011 in Discipleship, Missional | 0 comments In Matthew 9, Jesus is in full swing with his ministry.  He’s preaching the gospel, proclaiming the kingdom of God, healing the sick and exorcising demons.  It’s truly amazing stuff.  The text actually says he healed every kind of disease and illness (v.35)  At the end of the chapter, Matthew comments on how Jesus reacts when he sees the crowds. When he saw the crowds, he had...
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Are Missional Communities Revitalizing the Sunday School Dinosaur?

Posted by on May 25, 2011 in Missional | 0 comments Let me start by saying this post is meant to be interactive.  I don’t know the answer to the question I’m asking.  I’ve just started reading the Launching Missional Communities Field Guide by Mike Breen and Alex Absalom.  They describe missional communities as being 20 -50 in number.  Many other missional writers are communicating the same thing.  The idea being that...
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Church Planting Outreach: The Give

Posted by on Apr 18, 2011 in Missional | 0 comments Stadia brings people and churches together to transform lives and communities through church planting.  Today more than ever, our church planters are focused on transforming the community.  Rather than church being a destination, planters and those they disciple are taking church to the streets.  Joe McGrew is a planter in Collinsville, IL.  He is starting Atrium Church and will have a grand...
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7 Top Issues Church Planters Face: Evangelism and Discipleship

Posted by on Apr 4, 2011 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Missional | 0 comments Back in January, Ed Stetzer blogged on research produced by Exponential about the 7 Top Issues Church Planters face.  The sixth issue is evangelism and discipleship. You can read Ed’s post here. One quote that stuck out to me in this post was: Evangelism and discipleship does not automatically happen in a new church. That is unfortunate for some aspiring planters. All of us struggle with our...
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Are You Contributing to Oppression Pt. 2

Posted by on Feb 25, 2011 in Apple, Missional | 0 comments I posted a blog a couple days ago and posed the basic question, “Do we oppress people who work in inhumane conditions if we buy the products they make?”  As is usually the case, the discussion on Facebook was better than on the blog.  I wanted to share those comments, because they are very good, and then pose a few more thoughts.  I’m not going to post them all for space...
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Missions Smackdown: Social Justice vs. Evangelism

Posted by on Feb 21, 2011 in Missional | 0 comments This is the final post of a three part series discussion around the book MissionShift hosted by Ed Stetzer on his blog.  Several bloggers are chiming in so head over to Ed’s blog for part 1, part 2 and part 3.  My responses can be found here and here. Ralph Winters was tasked to write about the future of missions in the essay of MissionShift.  I found his essay and those that followed to...
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