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• LifeShapes Heptagon | MRS GREN [Recycled Post]

  
  kairos : kisses — Authority: 118
  [I first posted this just under a year ago - 19 November 2008 - but have been thinking about these things again today, in relation to the context I find myself in.] The Psalmist wrote, “As the deer pants for the water, so my soul longs after you.” That is, as he observed something in nature, the Holy Spirit ...
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• A Timely and Urgent Missional Church Lecture at Fuller – Tomorrow November 11th

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  My friend Eddie Gibbs just informed me that Graham Cray, who headed the well known Mission Shaped Church Report will be giving a 90-minute must see lecture at Fuller tomorrow (November 11th) afternoon from 3.00 to 4.30 in Payton Hall (and possibly spilling over to Garth) at Fuller Theological Seminary. Eddie tells ...
  11 hours ago

• Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part VI

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...
  22 hours ago

• 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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• The Church of the Future: Urban, Minority and Progressive

  
  Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor — Authority: 117
  The church of the future resides in an urban setting, consists of multiple minorities, and espouses progressive social values, according to two recently-released reports. While most church futurists have focused on church models (i.e., house churches vs. megachurches) in their predictions of the shape of church in ...
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• Church Jobs of the Future

  
  clarity evangelist — Authority: 410
  My daughter and I practiced her spelling bee words as I drove her to school this morning. Abby is a 10-year old. On the drive home, I pondered what Abby might do when she grows up. Every now and again...
  1 day ago

• faith...eutrophication, and new maps

  
  the Weary Pilgrim — Authority: 419
  I was reading these quotes from Gandhi in a devotional last night, and I got to think of my own faith journey. Constant development is the law of life, and a manwho always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistentdrives himself into a false position. Faith is not something to grasp, it ...
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• Free Church Planting Webinars

  
  Your Journey Blog — Authority: 113
  In a desire to get critical training materials into the hands of church planters earlier in the process, I have taken up the challenge of providing a one hour, free, webinar each month that will bring some of the key principles found in the  FirstSteps to Planting a Missional Church manual. We will go through the ...
  1 day ago

• Tonight – The Rock and The Rabbi

  
  high places on the journey — Authority: 110
  The Rock and the Rabbi is an acoustic concert story about the friendship of Peter and Jesus. I saw it at the PAC in Tulsa a few years ago and it stirred my soul in a way few other productions ever have. Tonight, Garnett Church’s Green Country Event Center, November 9, 2009 @ 7:30 pm.The [...]
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• NYC Debrief: Missional Careers in Fort Wayne?

  
  Ben Sternke — Authority: 121
  I loved Jon Tyson’s principles of cultivating a missional career , but I am also trying to translate it into an environment that is much less career-oriented. Fort Wayne, Indiana is not where you move to climb the corporate ladder or become a famous actor. New York City has a massive amount of people who have ...
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• Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part V

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...
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• Urban Church Connects with Local Artists

  
  Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor — Authority: 117
  In its heyday University Baptist Church in Baltimore overflowed its expansive neoclassical sanctuary.  Designed by the same architect as the Jefferson Memorial, the church’s impressive dome now shelters fewer worshippers each Sunday.  But changing times haven’t discouraged the members of University Baptist ...
  2 days ago

• A Meaningful Prayer

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  against the wall Originally uploaded by sidturner Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a few precious moments with her children. Help us to ...
  2 days ago

• Mission is More than a Command

  
  Church Planting Novice — Authority: 466
  “Since the advent of Protestant missions, the dominant motivation for missions has been an appeal to the “missionary mandate.”  Thus, missions became a response of obedience to a particular set of commands, most notably those texts commonly referred to as embodying the Great Commission.  In contrast, Lesslie ...
  4 days ago

• NYC Debrief: Industry Roundtables

  
  Ben Sternke — Authority: 121
  I n an effort to practically work out the six guiding principles of missional careers , Trinity Grace Church has started hosting “Industry Roundtables,” where people from certain careers/industries gather to discuss the following questions. What drew you to the industry you are working in? What do you love ...
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• Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part IV

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...
  4 days ago

• Notes from NOC09: Lots of small church focus

  
  Confessions of a Small-Church Pastor — Authority: 117
  The National Outreach Convention is a great event for small churches.   On Wednesday I led the Small Church Discussion group and we had about 50+ participants with great ideas and opportunities for ministry.  Today I led the Small Church Idea Foru m where we walked through the process of designing, conducting, ...
  5 days ago

• Jesus...his political disciplines

  
  the Weary Pilgrim — Authority: 419
  Randy said this in the comments on the last post ... I think we have to face the fact that Jesus was killed because he wasperceived to be a political threat ("King of the Jews"). His languagewas more political than it was religious. His manifesto (Luke 4) waspolitical in nature. A de-politicized gospel is no ...
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• Verge LA 2009 – Speaker Topics Part III

  
  Dream Awakener — Authority: 495
  With Verge LA right around the corner, I will be posting some of the topics that various speakers will tackle, everyday until the event. The basic theme of this gathering is looking at what it means to be missional in imaginative ways. Verge LA is where the next BIG idea meets UNconference. Check out this Verge LA ...
  5 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 ...
  5 days ago

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