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Reclaiming the Mission » Instilling Missional Habits in a Congregation – As You Walk Among Your Community

March 20th, 2009, No Comments

David Fitch is doing some excellent work on the area of missional church and what church means in our culture.  His book The Great Giveaway is highly recommended, and his blog (linked below) is good too.
The following is the introduction to an entry David wrote about how we can ask congregations to refocus themselves from [...]

Final problem statement

September 21st, 2008, 2 Comments

I’ve gotten approval for this final version of my problem statement (I earlier posted works in progress):
I am studying Celtic, Benedictine and Orthodox monasticism because I want to discover what frameworks these spiritualities provide so that my reader may understand how spiritual formation serves God’s mission.

Spirituality in the Suburbs (riffing on Al Hsu’s book)

August 7th, 2008, No Comments

This entry is cut n pasted from a section of a paper that I’m writing on spiritual formation for my BGU Overture I class.
Spirituality in the Suburbs

Albert Hsu’s book The Suburban Christian contains the best-developed thinking that I have yet seen on suburbia as a mission field.
Contemporary culture tends to look down upon the suburban [...]

Tags for Where We’re Going

July 24th, 2008, No Comments

Today I had a really helpful and powerful chat with one of my heroes, and though I want to digest that a bit before talking about it here, it also spurred me to find a page in my journal and open it up.
Here are some tags that I wrote in my moleskine notebook a while [...]

Intro to the Missional Church class notes

July 14th, 2008, No Comments

For those of you who are interested in missional church, and especially those of you who lead such things and want to speak your church about them, go over to Todd Hiestand’s blog today and download the PDF file of the class he did with his church, The Well.
It’s really, really, really good!

Creating the Future, One Mustard Seed at a Time (The New Conspirators)

July 13th, 2008, 1 Comment

“The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom Sine)
I’ve just finished reading Tom Sine’s newest book, “The New Conspirators: Creating the Future One Mustard Seed at a Time” (Tom Sine). It’s one that I’ve meant to read for a few months. However, having now finished it, I highly recommend it [...]

Bosch on the God who Acts, and impact on Scripture

July 12th, 2008, No Comments

A few thoughts from “Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in Theology of Mission” (David Bosch):

In Israel, history is the arena of God’s activity. The focus is on what God has done, is doing and is yet to do according to his declared intentions. God is… the God who acts. [...] It may therefore be more accurate [...]

Attractional vs Missional

July 7th, 2008, No Comments

With regard to those outside itself, …

The attractional church says come and see.

The missional-incarnational church says go and be.

Let the feast begin

July 6th, 2008, 4 Comments

Let the feast begin

Originally uploaded by PatL

This is my church’s (Ohana Project) biggest party – the Luau. Once a month, usually the first Sunday, we gather together and as an act of worship, we serve our community as a church. Sometimes we help a local food bank stock shelves; sometimes we weed and [...]

The Missional Church is…

July 5th, 2008, No Comments

Brother Maynard over at Subversive Influence has been doing a series of recaps of last week’s missional synchroblog. This is the final recap before Bro M himself writes a summary, and at the end of the post there is a very helpful list of characteristics of what we hope missional churches are and will be.
If [...]