Tim Keller identifies the following characteristics of a missional church.¹ I’ve found them very helpful in encouraging groups to recognize what it means to engage with their neighborhoods in a missional way. A ‘missional’ small group is not necessarily one which is doing some kind of specific ‘evangelism’ program (though that is to be recommended). Rather: [...]
A true measure of living life between Sundays is how one handles missional living and evangelism. Here is a great article discussing that theme. Evangelism in Every “Place” « Provocations & Pantings.
So often we take a word in our vocabulary and shrink it and misuse it until that word no longer has meaning. “Awesome” is one of those words. It is used for everything. “Lunch was awesome”, that show was awesome”, “my shoes are awesome”. Awesome means to inspire awe. How do shoes inspire awe? Now [...]
The church has been known for many years to be a place where the list of DON’Ts is posted. The church spends so much time telling everyone what not to do. Don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t dance, and so on. The job of the church is not to make sin inaccessible but instead to make [...]
I have always had a certain caution to weekend or week long summer mission trips. We gather a group of people (normally youth) and send them to a poorer neighborhood or country for a short period to “serve” those that are in need. Most of the time this is not done in connection with a [...]
Over at Stetzer’s blog: The folks at Pew released some new research worth your time. They explained: Americans change religious affiliation early and often. In total, about half of American adults have changed religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Most people who change their religion leave their childhood faith before age 24, and [...]
We have become a people of consumerism. We are bombarded with commercials trying to grab our attention and tell us to buy things to fix our problems. The church is no different in this marketing world. We have created religious subculture where people come to get their weekly fix of spiritual goods and services. People go to [...]
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