Showing Beauty and Truth in New Ways
March 15, 2011
Category: Missional Leadership
Explaining Simple-Church Simply
March 2, 2011
Updated: The previous video is no longer available. Thursday is for Discipleship I was going to save this for Monday’s post, but I had a great discussion with an American Missionary to Bolivia tonight in which it popped up as a discussion item, and I decided I didn’t want to wait. Don’t think of this … More Explaining Simple-Church Simply
Reinventing Ineffective Wheels
February 6, 2011
Sometimes we create new wheels that are clever, creative, new, interesting, innovative and different. Of course, none of that necessarily guarantees that they are better, effective or blessed by God. Interesting Transportation Church Planter: Make sure you understand the book of Acts before you start reinventing ineffective wheels.
MacArthur vs Darrin Patrick: No Smoke Here, Just Love and Clarity
January 28, 2011
Absolutely fantastic, gracious, wise, humble and compelling response to John MacArthur’s concern about his (Darrin Patrick’s) book Church Planter. Available on a Kindle for only $2.99. If you are a church planter, go out, buy, and read Darrin’s book. UPDATE: For some reason, Darrin took down his original response from his website. The link that … More MacArthur vs Darrin Patrick: No Smoke Here, Just Love and Clarity
Number 3 Most Generous Site – goes to Ed Stetzer’s Blog
January 14, 2011
By “most generous” I simply mean that this site sent a lot of people to my site. The site from which the third most blog hits came in from was Ed Stetzer at LifeWay Research. This was a surprise to me and I am honored. Ed is a friend and we are scheduled to teach … More Number 3 Most Generous Site – goes to Ed Stetzer’s Blog
Church Planter: Your Personality Isn’t Enough
December 12, 2010
Monday Discussion The temptation for many church planters is to trust more in their vision, personality or communication ability than in the power of the gospel, prayer or equipping the saints. The result can often be a quick start with lots of energy but an equally quick plateau and shallow disciples more dependent on … More Church Planter: Your Personality Isn’t Enough
Gastfreundschaft: “the freedom of the guest”
November 27, 2010
Weekend Musings Sometimes a foreign language can illuminate an issue with a clarity that our native language seems tongue-tied about. Reading Bruce Rowlison’s 1981 book on Creative Hospitality I read this: “In the German, the word for hospitality is Gastfreundschaft which means ‘the freedom of the guest.’” Henri Nouwen picks up the same idea in some … More Gastfreundschaft: “the freedom of the guest”
Intensely Local: God gave you that house, how will you use it for His glory?
November 17, 2010
“Using what you have, where you are, whom you are among, to make a difference for Christ.” Here’s a series of exercises to help your small group or house church begin to develop an Intensely Local texture to their ministry. Principle: The home and the ‘hood rather than the church building and programs, are the primary … More Intensely Local: God gave you that house, how will you use it for His glory?
How to Do Reconnaissance into the Neighborhood’s Soul
October 3, 2010
Monday Discussion [Revised and updated from 2010] Developing an “intensely local” vision for church planters and others who just want to make a difference. Thesis: To really get to know a community, you have to “press the flesh.” You need to develop real relationships with real people. This will involve changing both our mindset and … More How to Do Reconnaissance into the Neighborhood’s Soul
Alan Hirsch and Ed Stetzer on Multi-site vs Church Planting
September 25, 2010
Its’s always good to think through the unintended consequences of our actions. Ed Stetzer tries to get us to do that in this brief video clip with regard to the Multi-site phenomenon sweeping the church in America. Ed Stetzer and Alan Hirsch on the multi-site phenomenon, pros and cons. (Click on the link.)
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