Why focus on the city? In the United States, more than half of the population now lives in just forty cities of a million or more people. In the past twenty-five years Las Vegas exploded with 250-percent population growth, while Houston grew by 140 percent. Cities are magnets pulling the hopeful across any barrier, and [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Why Focus on the City?
Posted: 28th November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Books, Community Transformation, Culture, Incarnational, Missional, Spiritual Formation5
Four New Book Arrivals
Posted: 24th November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Blogging, Books, Church, MissionalFour new arrivals that I hope to read/blog over the holidays: Church Turned Inside Out by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr. I am into chapter three of this one. The book is subtitled “A Guide for Designers, Refiners, and Re-Aligners.” While talking about the importance of new church designs, Linda and Allan emphasize that every [...]
Missional Meanderings
Posted: 23rd November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Church Planting, Meanderings, MissionalComments Off
Ed Stetzer shares 10 reasons to partner in church planting sooner rather than later. Some very practical advice from Jonathan Dodson on doing everyday things with Gospel intentionality Andrew Jones on Wolfgang Simson and the emerging house church movement.
Verge: Missional Community Conference
Posted: 22nd November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Blogging, Leadership, Missional, Networks, TrainingIf I had to choose only one conference to attend in 2010 it would be Verge, February 4-6 in Austin. I have the privilege to be a part of the conference social media team, which means I will be blogging/twittering before, during and after the conference. I am very excited about the missional community focus [...]
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“Mission, by its very nature, calls us into risky engagement, and because it does that it requires constant vigilance, relearning, adaptation, and unrelenting adjustments in the life of the organization. Therefore, missional church by its very definition must call into question many of the inherited ideas that underpin the prevailing forms and ideas of church. [...]
History of Missional Church – Part IV
Posted: 16th November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Culture, Dmin Project, Ecclesiology, Incarnational, Missiology, MissionalHistory of Missional Church – Part I History of Missional Church – Part II History of Missional Church – Part III Other Notable Authors and Contributors There are a number of other authors who have contributed significantly to the missional church conversation in the past decade. Two of the more notable voices have been that [...]
During the conference this week Eric Swanson made an interesting comment about the church’s ministry with the poor. While reflecting on Matthew 26:11, when Jesus says “You will always have the poor with you,” he stated that while there will always be the poor among us, it shouldn’t be the same poor. In other words, [...]
History of Missional Church – Part III
Posted: 8th November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Church, Lesslie Newbigin, Missiology, Missional, NetworksHistory of Missional Church – Part I History of Missional Church – Part II The Gospel and Our Culture Network As Newbigin’s writings gained a larger circulation and the British programme received greater recognition, a version of the Gospel and Our Culture conversation began to emerge in the United States. A network began to take [...]
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It’s a world of confusion, Lord: we are muddled in our thinking; we are mixed in our emotions; we are inconsistent in our actions. It’s a world of lies, Lord: we deceive ourselves about our motives and intentions; we mislead others with double-speak and spin; we exploit you as an agent of social control and [...]
History of Missional Church – Part II
Posted: 1st November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Books, Culture, Dmin Project, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, MissionalHistory of Missional Church – Part I The British Gospel and Culture “Programme” The British version of the Gospel and Culture movement was initiated by Newbigin in Britain during the 1980s and came to be known as a “programme.” Newbigin had been entrusted by the British Council of Churches with the task of planning a [...]