The problem with “missional” is that it can become a trendy word we use to baptize what we’re already doing.
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A few preliminary reflections from the Ecclesia National Gathering February 2010.
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The 3rd Annual Missional Learning Commons is taking place Jan 8-9, 2010 in Fort Wayne, the Missional Mecca of the Midwest! It’s free – no fees, no paid speakers, no big sponsors selling stuff. Just a day of conspiring, collaborating, discussing, praying, and encouraging.
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While in New York last month at a church planters’ round table I was challenged to think carefully about how we cultivate our church plant here in Fort Wayne. Our desire is to cultivate and multiply communities of worship, spiritual formation, and mission. I have become convinced that this cannot happen until we move beyond [...]
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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.
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Are you guilty of cable news thinking? According to Seth Godin, cable news thinking amplifies the worst elements of emotional reaction, and is frighteningly commonplace. And he’s almost always right.
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“We [the church] need to be communities of love. And we need to be seen to be communities of love. People need to encounter the church as a network of relationships rather than a meeting you attend or a place you enter. Mission must involve not only contact between unbelievers and individual Christians, but [...]
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Yesterday I wrote that I was looking forward to reading Deep Church when my copy arrives from Amazon. In the meantime, I started another ecclesiologically-flavored book called Total Church, by Steve Timmis and Tim Chester. I imagine that if we take all of the ideas from each book we’d end up with a totally deep [...]
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The folks at Missional People have come up with a great list of 10 Missional Myths, meaning that all of the following statements (taken from their website) are false.
Missional is a new trend that seminarians and pastors came up with in order to sell books.
Missional means that you water down the gospel.
Missional means that you [...]
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We’ve finished a series of articles on our new church plant.
If this vision resonates with you, we invite you to consider how you could partner with us. You might want to:
Join this church plant (come to a vision night or contact me to talk).
Become part of the core team (contact me to chat about what [...]
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We’re continuing to post on the vision and values of our church plant.
So far: 1. “Why?” – 2. Our mission – 3. Skeptics and Dreamers – 4. Missionary communities – 5. Journey, Honesty, Community – 6. Participation, Oikos, Simplicity, Wonder – 7. Creativity, Roots, Justice, Truth – 8. 3D Church – 9. Gatherings
Today: a sketch [...]
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