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• Would you go to an inter-faith dialogue?

  
  high places on the journey — Authority: 118
  What is your faith in? Traditions you’ve long known, or in God?Would you go to an inter-faith dialogue where a Jewish woman is the teacher?Where would you be on the scale, 1-10? 1 is you see no reason and even think it’s wrong to dialogue with people outside the Christian faith. 3 is that it’s [...]
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• Ravi Zacharias’ Reponse to Life is Meaningless

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 470
  Over ten years ago, I had an opportunity to spend three weeks learning from Ravi Zacharias over a three year period of informal training. It has been a while since I have read a book by him or listened to him, so I found it refreshing to hear his response here to the idea that someone posed to him, “life is ...
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• “Am I All in For God?: Missional Interpretation of Matthew 16:21-28

  
  realmealministries.org — Authority: 457
  Here are some collected thoughts on one of my favorite biblical texts (Matthew 16:21-28). I have attempted to write this essay from a perspective of mission for the sake of modeling a missional hermeneutic or reading of this passage of Scripture. NIV Matthew 16:21 From that time on Jesus began to explain to his ...
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• Ignite: How to Spark Immediate Growth in Your Church

  
  My World — Authority: 138
  Just finished Ignite by Nelson Searcy . I had to read it for the coaching network I am in. What this book looks at is how people find your church, how does your church do evangelism, reach people. It walks through how this happens on an individual basis, corporately, the pastor’s role in this and how to keep ...
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• Most Misunderstood Missiologist

  
  Revitalize Your Church — Authority: 132
  An insightful article by Bill Eason about Don McGavran , the father of the church growth movement. I was privileged to sit under his teaching a few times during my days at Fuller.
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• Ten Theological Truths about Poverty and the Poor from the Life of Jesus

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 470
  Hope in the Prison of Poverty Originally uploaded by KathyAAdams The class I’m taking at Fuller this quarter is on Poverty and Development, and one of the exercises I did on day was to reflect on some portion of scripture and talk about how poverty and the poor were addressed. I decided to focus on the ...
  3 days ago

• How NOT To Be a Missional Church: Social Action-Driven

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 631
  How NOT To Be a Missional Church series: Click | View Series The missional church movement has been good and bad. On a positive note, let’s focus on the bad. I want to suggest three ways to not be a missional church. In continuation of the series, this post examines some of the defects of social ...
  3 days ago

• How to Start Missional Communities

  
  Church Planting Novice — Authority: 126
  A lot of people are asking me for training on how to start Missional Communities, so I thought I would mention several resources. In the past couple of months I have done variations of the talk Missional Communities in Cities and Suburbs . (Note: I went more generic/urban than suburban in this one.) Also Leading ...
  4 days ago

• Missional Liturgy: A benediction

  
  realmealministries.org — Authority: 457
  This week Asbury Seminary Orlando celebrated the inauguration of its 8th President , Dr. Timothy C. Tennent . Dr. Tennent is an expert on global Christianity and the mission of God. Readers of this blog know that I could not be happier with a President who emphasizes these themes. During the inaugural chapel ...
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• How NOT To Be a Missional Church: Evangelism-Driven

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 631
  How NOT To Be a Missional Church series: Click | View Series The missional church movement has been good and bad. On a positive note, let’s focus on the bad. I want to suggest three ways to not be a missional church. In continuation of the series, this post examines some of the defects of evangelism-driven ...
  4 days ago

• This Week with Henri Nouwen – Focusing on the Poor

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 470
  “Like every human organization the Church is constantly in danger of corruption. As soon as power and wealth come to the Church, manipulation, exploitation, misuse of influence, and outright corruption are not far away. How do we prevent corruption in the Church? The answer is clear: by focusing on the poor. The ...
  4 days ago

• 3rd Annual Missional Learning Commons

  
  Ben Sternke — Authority: 122
  O n January 8-9, 2010 a bunch of missional pastors/church planters/leaders/people from all over the Midwest will be gathering in Fort Wayne to “talk shop,” discuss what we’re learning, encourage one another, pray, conspire and collaborate together for the gospel. My friend David Fitch calls Fort Wayne the “ ...
  4 days ago

• The History of the Missional Church

  
  fresh expressions... — Authority: 120
  Brad Brisco has a helpful history of the missional church (with a very North American flavour though) with some helpful markers of significant or helpful books as he goes along:History of Missional Church – Part I – The Influence of Lesslie NewbiginThe shift to missional thinking in the words of David ...
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• Jehovah’s Witnesses Willing to Invest Time

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 130
  Today I met with a man who is a somewhat lapsed Episcopalian (or Anglican as we say here) who has been meeting on a monthly basis with some Jehovah’s Witnesses.     He has a lot of questions about various issues, and so he invited them into his home and they have been returning regularly, staying about an hour ...
  5 days ago

• F+E+W=FriendSpeak

  
  high places on the journey — Authority: 118
  Friendspeak is FEW. Friendship + English + Word.People in the United States today need English conversation skills. Friendspeak uses the Gospel of Luke and other Bible books to practice English conversation between workers and readers who come in for weekly meetings one on one.Mark Woodward from Friendspeak spent the ...
  6 days ago

• Finding Our Place Among The Hungry

  
  Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor — Authority: 121
  More world citizens and more Americans go hungry each day than ever before in the history of the world.  One billion people out of the 6-billion who inhabit the earth, do not have enough to eat.  Almost 17% of the world’s population — 1-in-6 people in other words — are undernourished or malnourished. In the ...
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• How Not to Be a Missional Church Continues

  
  Church Planting Novice — Authority: 126
  Some of you may have read the beginning of this series, How Not to Be a Missional Church, on my blog . I’ve pushed the series to Resurgence , where it will be running all week, and will conclude with the Evangelism-Driven critique. Others of you are reading some of this for the first time. As each post goes up ...
  6 days ago

• Bible and Mission: Series from Eddie Arthur (Wycliffe U.K.)

  
  realmealministries.org — Authority: 457
  Eddie Arthur began a new series on the Bible and Mission. He is drawing together a number of online conversations about missional hermeneutics together in light of his own thinking/research. He has posted two entries thus far: Bible and Mission: A Mini-Series Bible and Mission: The Story A missional ...
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• How NOT To Be a Missional Church: Event-Driven

  
  TheResurgence — Authority: 631
  How NOT To Be a Missional Church series: Click | View Series The missional church movement has been good and bad. On a positive note, let’s focus on the bad. Over the next few posts, I want to suggest three ways to not be a missional church. We’ll organize these reflections under three headings: ...
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• You really are forgiven

  
  high places on the journey — Authority: 118
  Holly W. was baptized on her 30th birthday. She said her twenties were pretty rough and she wanted to start her thirties right. I told her baptism is new life and the most amazing way to plunge into a relationship with Jesus by enacting what he did for us in his death on the cross [...]
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