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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Social Justice Minus Incarnation Equals Marketing

Posted by on Feb 7, 2011 in Missional | 0 comments One of our themes at Stadia for 2011 is “Together We Will.”  It’s really all about relationships.  Stadia’s Executive Director, and one of my mentors, Tom Jones, has always had the mantra “It’s all about relationships.”  To put this in missional language, “It’s all about incarnation.”  Many church planters are interested in making a...
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Why Contextualization is Important to Church Planting and Missions

Posted by on Jan 31, 2011 in Church Planting, Discipleship, Missional | 0 comments A few weeks ago Ed Stetzer started a discussion on missiology, centered on the essays in the book MissionShift. He gave away copies of the book to bloggers (me included) and decided to start a discussion. Two weeks ago, Ed published the first installment of David Hesselgrave’s “second thoughts” essay. He also shared some excerpts of the responses by other bloggers in two...
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MissionShift: A Collaborative Discussion on Missions

Posted by on Jan 17, 2011 in Church Planting, Missional | 0 comments I’m participating in a discussion group at www.edstetzer.com around the book MissionShift. When Ed first mentioned this blogging discussion, I jumped at the opportunity because I respect what Ed has to say and appreciate how he bridges the traditional and edgy as well as the old and new.  After reading the first essay and the responses in the book MissionShift, I have to confess, I may have...
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One liners from the Future Travelers

Posted by on Jan 13, 2011 in Church Planting, Missional | 0 comments I’m in Miami for a couple of days spending some time with a group called the Future Travelers led by Alan Hirsch.  I’m learning a ton and really enjoying the collaboration from the team.  I’ll unpack a lot in posts to come, but thought I’d share some one liners from today.  Most of today’s teaching came from Chris Wienand. Be willing to die as a church and reborn...
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Every Missional Church Planter Needs an Implementer

Posted by on Jan 5, 2011 in Church Planting, Missional, Strategy | 4 comments Missional church planters are great visionaries and have a unique capacity to imagine the church as something other than what it currently is.  Alan Hirsch talks about the importance of imagination in the missional church.  It is crucial that as church planters we don’t get trapped by the old modes of being the church.  To connect with the 60% of people who won’t be reached by...
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