Missiology

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• What Is Missiology?

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  A Diverging Church and Culture Increasingly, ministry in North America is an exercise in crossing cultures. As the culture moves its own way with everyone “doing right in his own eyes,” the church and the culture look increasingly divergent. Thus, Christians are left with a challenging task: how do we faithfully ...
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• Evangelism at the Expense of Discipleship

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  From the free e-book Grow: Reproducing Through Organic Discipleship . Converts vs. Disciples Some churches focus on evangelism at the expense of discipleship by seeking to win converts instead of making disciples. The goal of evangelism is disciple making. The Great Commission in Matthew chapter 28 is to make ...
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• Missional Network Gathering & Savvy Core Team Training

  
  Church Planting Novice — Authority: 466
  I am off to the Missional Network Gathering in Kansas City tomorrow with Brad Brisco as my host. I’ll be speaking on two main topics: Planting to Movement: Forming City Networks Best Practices of Missional Communities Afterwards, I will be coaching the Watershed Church Planting team on Missional Core Team ...
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• History of Missional Church – Part III

  
  Missional Church Network — Authority: 481
  History of Missional Church – Part I History of Missional Church – Part II The Gospel and Our Culture Network As Newbigin’s writings gained a larger circulation and the British programme received greater recognition, a version of the Gospel and Our Culture conversation began to emerge in the United States. ...
  3 days ago

• A New Day in Hamtown!

  
  iChilly — Authority: 118
  Today, we ( Real Church ) made the transition to our new leadership team in Hamtramck. This means that it’s day-to-day ministries and operations are now under the leadership of Pastor TJ Reid .  He and his wife Jess have an amazing team of servants that are eager & ready to step-up and serve this city.  I ...
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• 5 Reasons Missional Churches Don’t Go Global

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  During a recent trip to Taiwan as part of the Upstream Collective , missiologist Ed Stetzer asked the question “Why are so many missional Christians uninvolved in God’s global mission?” These are the 5 reasons he gives: In rediscovering Gods mission, many have only discovered its personal dimensions. In ...
  3 days ago

• How Jesus Made Disciples: Sending & Praying

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  Jesus sends his disciples ahead of him Jesus is comfortable leading passively from a distance at times, and lets his disciples go out before him on their own. We dont have a clear description of what they are doing when they go out before him, but you can infer that they are living the life that Jesus is teaching ...
  6 days ago

• Why Aren’t We More Missional (Pt 3)

  
  Church Planting Novice — Authority: 466
  So far we’ve seen that God motivates us for mission with our gospel identity (missio Dei) and missional responsibility ( mandates). Another way God motivates us to mission is by giving us particular graces. These graces come in the form of spiritual gifts. All of these gifts are intended to advance the mission ...
  6 days ago

• Integrity, Worldliness, and a Heart for the Work

  
  Missions Mandate — Authority: 116
  From Charles Bridges, The Christian Ministry, which I read every year with the guys in the Pastoral Leadership class at DBTS: The direct violation of Christian integrity has a necessary tendency to enfeeble exertion, by diverting our mind from that main object, which should be always directing our whole time and ...
  1 week ago

• Def: Actualization Space

  
  p/re:formation — Authority: 91
  I just got off the phone with Sally Morganthaler learning a ton about the journey from her book Worship Evangelism (a book critiquing the performance based worship of seeker churches in the 80s) through leadership coaching, and back again to worship as the ritualized space of mission.  While talking we coined a ...
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• The Awakenings and Missions

  
  Missions Mandate — Authority: 116
  Jerry Tidwell, Associate Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Union University, presented a workshop on the American Awakenings and their effect on missions at the “Southern Baptists, Evangelicals, and the Future of Denominationalism” Conference at Union University. Listen to the audio . Summary : As ...
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• from SEE to shining SEE!

  
  iChilly — Authority: 118
  It is a rare and marvelous thing when you can see with your eyes OPEN. That’s right, open . Most people have sight without vision. And, some people have vision without sight. But, the true blessing comes when you leave the place of vision (prayer) and continue to see God’s plan unfolding right before your very ...
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• Contextualization & Ancestor Worship

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  Click through to the Resurgence if you can’t see the video. Missional cultural engagement is a challenge. How far does one go to engage culture? According to missiologist Ed Stetzer , that is the nature of contextualization. In his recent post Ancestor Worship and Taiwanese Christians , Stetzer gives some ...
  1 week ago

• The Wrath of Re:Train (not really)

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  

Not to be dramatic, but a little dramatic. This is the overwhelming feeling I have when I’ve been working all day, had a few hours to connect with my family in the evening, and am now sitting at my desk reading a 480-page pdf document (book) on the church, or slugging away at a 25-page paper till the wee ...
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• New University of Chicago Report on Religious Change

  
  Missions Mandate — Authority: 116
  Tom Smith at the University of the Chicago recently completed and summarized a study of religious trends called Religious Change Around the World . The study has been commented on by both the New York Times and the Chicago Tribune as well as by the U of Chicago itself in its article “ Growth in ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Structure of the Missional Church

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  Missional Ecclesiology series: Click | View Series Dr. Gregg Allison is teaching a course on Missional Ecclesiology at the Resurgence Training Center this fall. Find out more at ReTrain.org . Church Structure As structured by its divine head, Jesus Christ, the church is directed by specific human ...
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• …things we cannot see.

  
  iChilly — Authority: 118
  I have so many thoughts bouncin’ around in my heart and head on this… Do I have faith? do you? sure about that? See, it’s more than just saying “I believe”…  everyone likes to talk about what they believe but who’s willing to live it? Yeah, courageously walk into the ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Work of the Missional Church

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  Missional Ecclesiology series: Click | View Series Dr. Gregg Allison is teaching a course on Missional Ecclesiology at the Resurgence Training Center this fall. Find out more at ReTrain.org . From the seven essential characteristics of the church (discussed in Part 1 and Part 2 ) flow the ministries ...
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• How Jesus Made Disciples: Object Lessons

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 636
  Jesus used practical object lessons Jesus didnt pick the smartest, the coolest, or the most likely to succeed to be his disciples--he went straight to the bottom of the barrel and picked the fisherman, and he taught them in very practical ways. He brought them almost everywhere he went and taught them along the way. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brad Brisco: Need for Missional Ecclesiology

  
  Church Planting Novice — Authority: 466
  Brad Brisco is a thoughtful academic and practitioner and author of Missional Church Network . He is graciously giving us free previews of his doctral work on Missional Ecclesiology. Part I Part II Tagged: brad brisco, missional ecclesiology
  3 weeks ago

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