Archive for the ‘Missional’ Category
Alan Roxburgh shares this poem that was written by a participant at a conference he was leading a few years ago. 137 For 2010 In the midst of this crazy world I look around and wonder what has happened. How do I talk to a kid with a ring in his nose? Does “The Old [...]
Alan Roxburgh has a writing project that’s posted on the Allelon website titled Missional MapMaking: The Art of the Missional-Shaped Church. In chapter one he discusses the assumptions we bring to life – assumptions about what the world is like, who we are, what is of value and importance, how to get along in life, [...]
Alan Roxburg has written a paper on Missional Leadership that’s being posted in several installments on the Allelon website. Part One is already up. If you’re a fan of John Maxwell and the like then you need to check out Roxburg’s paper. In it he challenges prevailing church leadership models that are based on business [...]
Man, o man, is this ever a good week to tune in to Shapevine.com. Tonight (April 21st) at 6 PM CST you can catch Sally Morgenthaler. Tomorrow afternoon (April 22nd) at 3 PM CST you can have an online convo with Len Sweet who will be talking to Peter Rollins. [Funny side story: Last summer [...]
David Hayward reminds us that what we often think are the “tried and true” methods of evangelism aren’t so tried and true. They may actually seem a little absurd. Check out more of his humor and art at his blog.
Today I want to point you to the blog of Ernest Goodman. Ernest is a missionary in Western Europe. I consistently learn oodles of stuff about myself, about how I approach my faith, about how I lead others in living out lives as followers of Jesus, and especially about things I need to quit doing [...]
Within the past year I’ve heard the following statements: Contemporary Baptists need to recapture a sound ecclesiology (doctrine of the church) Baptists (and other free-church traditions) have no ecclesiology The first I’ve heard from a number of Baptist sources, predominantly from those who don’t happen to like the ecclesiological expression of a particular person or [...]
Today at 3 PM Central, 4 PM Eastern, go log into Shapevine (www.shapevine.com) and listen to Reggie McNeal for free. Earlier in the week they had Andrew Jones. Others in their lineup include Ed Stetzer, Alan Hirsch, Len Sweet, Sally Morganthaler and others. How cool is that?
According to Free The Slaves there are 27 million slaves in the world today, though there is nowhere in the world today in which slavery is legal. Instead slavery is referred to in a variety of ways: debt bondage, bonded labor, attached labor, restavec, forced labor, indentured servitude, and human trafficking. The US State Department [...]
I remember sitting in my seminary preaching lab when Dr. Grant Lovejoy told us that most Baptist preaching breaks down into one of the following: pray more, read your Bible more, give more, witness more. Pretty true. And one thing each of those has in common is that the emphasis is on the individual exercise [...]
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