Missional Church Network

If you didn’t run across this article from last year be sure to check out John Santic’s post titled “10 Tips For Living The Incarnation.” I would highly recommend reading the entire article, but here are three of John’s 10 tips: Attentive Listening: The art of listening is becoming increasingly important for what it means to [...]

Here is an excellent article from The Alban Institute titled “Changing the Conversation: Nurturing a Third Way for Congregations.” The article, written by Anthony Robinson, first appeared in Congregations magazine. For a flavor of where Robinson is going in the article here is the opening paragraph: For congregations—particularly congregations of the mainline Protestant tradition—the way [...]

The early followers of Jesus Christ were not called people of “the experience,” or the people of “right doctrine,” or the people of “moral values,” or even the people of “the church.” They were called the people of “the Way.” They were known for the way they lived, not only for what they believed or [...]

We have become experts at programming congregational life. As soon as someone offers an idea that seems to be effective in helping a local congregation, somebody comes up with a way to program it, organize it, shrink-wrap it, market it, and sell it to churches as a commodity. But the missional lifestyle is not a [...]

All the themes of the Fourth Gospel are presented in the person of Jesus. The Christian message is not presented as a philosophy, a code of law or ethics, a doctrine, a catechism: it appears in the person of Jesus and in the impact of his presence on others. It was the author’s purpose to [...]