In the introduction of “The Jesus of Suburbia” author Mike Erre asks a series of challenging questions relating to modern American Christianity: We preach Christianity, but do we really preach Christ? We call people to serve the church, but do we call them to serve the poor? We teach them to know sound doctrine, but [...]
Archive for September, 2008
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The advent of the emerging culture is causing a reformation — perhaps even a revolution — in the church’s understanding of spiritual formation. Instead of a compartmentalized spirituality that focuses on personal choices, we are seeing the growth of a new approach to spiritual formation that emphasizes a rule of life and rhythms of spiritual [...]
For the past year and a half two good friends of mine (Georges Boujakly and Paul Hill) and I have been working on a “Missional Order.” In the beginning our hope was to create a network to challenge and encourage the church planters that we work with to focus significant and meaningful energy on spiritual formation in their lives [...]
Yesterday I filled in for a friend of mine in one of our new church plants and at the conclusion of the gathering time we recited this Franciscan Benediction. May God bless you with discomfort at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships, so that you may live deep within your heart. May God bless you with [...]
First is David Dunbar’s latest missional journal article. David shares a great story that clearly illustrates how a missional reading of Scripture encourages a missional perspective of the communities in which we live. Ed Stetzer begins to summarize a new Bible study series he has written titled Sent: Living the Missional Nature of the Church. So [...]
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A few days ago I recieved the latest Neue weekly email newsletter which included an excellent article by Ashley Wolpert on Missional Living. The article is primarily an interview with Ed Stetzer. For the entire article check out Ed’s site. Here is a small portion of the interview: What keeps people from missional living? Would [...]