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Three Spheres of Relationship

by Ben Sternke on August 20, 2010

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The tools we are using for discipleship don’t present anything new. Instead they are basically simple ways of conceptualizing and remembering the things Jesus taught and modeled.

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Mission and Community

by Ben Sternke on September 19, 2009

“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 between [...]

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Centered on Gospel and Community

by Ben Sternke on September 17, 2009

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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