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Introducing missional monday
An eight-week series of posts on the key characteristics of missional ministry in today’s world–starting monday. Filed under: missional theology Tagged: church, discipleship, eclessia, missional, theology
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[Missional Monday 1] What is missional?
The church has been brought into being by the action of God with a distinct charter and purpose. In like manner to the way in which God sent His Son into the world to redeem a people through his...
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[Missional Monday 3] – Why prayer is the fuel of missional ministry
is the current church sufficiently rooted in Christ so that this shift will be more than simply a fad or a trend, but will be the product of deep repentance for missed opportunities, the product of a...
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Why become a Christian?
Mission must spring from a lead back into a quality of life which seems intrinsically worth having in itself. If we answer the question “why should I become a Christian?” simply by saying “In order to...
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What is the church?
The gospel teaches us that the Church is the one and only foretaste of heaven now because she alone has a real participation in the life of God on earth…. This divine reality of foretaste and first...
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In the midst of life, we are in death
I was lining up at gate B10 at the Atlanta airport, waiting to catch my flight to Nashville. All of a sudden the silence of the gate area was broken by a cry of “Make way! We need room!” Around the...
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What is the Gospel?
...The "gospel" is the good news that through Jesus, the Messiah, the power of God's kingdom has entered history to renew the whole world. Through the Savior God has established his reign. When we...
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The letter Screwtape should have written
If C. S. Lewis lived today he may well have appended one last letter from Master Tempter Screwtape to his apprentice Wormwood (in The Screwtape Letters). In it the old master would have encouraged the...
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Time famine and future church
I often find myself wondering what church will look like in the future. I’m a member of a large (ish) downtown church that is evangelical in theology while being a member of a mainline denomination. We...
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The surprising benefits of dumping Facebook
Each year as I enter Lent I wonder whether it's really worth giving up Facebook. It seems like there's very little cost to being on the site. In fact, as the number of people you know who are "on...
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[Missional Monday 5] Missional is urgent and lean
Christians (and churches) make the missional shift when they come to realize that not only is the mission of God their mission, but that the ways in which we've pursued that mission in the past are no...
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Is gay marriage the logical end of consumer capitalism?
As capitalism developed into consumer capitalism, it is not difficult to see how our current socio-cultural arrangement makes possible something that has never been plausible before: the redefinition...
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Why bother with Easter?
I have one reason alone: by myself, and in myself, I am not strong enough to ensure that the kingdom vision of the gospel remains the most formative truth in my life. I'm dead serious about this--I...
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[Missional Monday 6] Missional requires focus
Today we explore how making the missional shift requires a great deal of focus. As a brief reminder, a simple way to get a better of a handle on the concept of missional is to replace it with...
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26 Time management lessons…for pastors
This series of slides contains a wealth of knowledge about how pastors can work more effectively. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to start thinking of pastors as “non-profit executives” (this is a...
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Where is God in the world?
The denial and dissimulation of grace, though always a human temptation, became especially pronounced and systemic in the modern world.
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Milbank’s critique of some missional church expressions
John Milbank offers a biting critique of Fresh Expressions, a missional church movement in the Church of England. As ever, Milbank’s words are insightful and a helpful challenge to some problematic...
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Law and gospel in a kickboxing match
Ultimately the gospel is stronger and surer than the law. As a means of trying to make ourselves right with God, the law is weaker than this guy's leg. The law is weak not because it has no value or no...
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The Celtic Way of Evangelism – A Review
George G. Hunter, III. The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West…Again. 10th rev. ed. (Nashville: Abingdon, 2010). 130pp. A single question is central to the mission of the...
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Your guide to pastoral facial hair…
Facebook is a treasure trove of graphics, many of them pretty crappy. However, this little gem stands out! It’s masterful–I can think of at least one person I currently know who approximates each of...
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