Archive for May, 2010

Jesus Manifesto by Sweet and Viola

Posted: 31st May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Gospel, Spiritual Formation, Theology, Way of Jesus
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Several weeks ago I received a pre-release copy of a new book called Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. I am only three chapters into the book, but I wanted to share a couple of excerpts that really spoke to me: “God is not so [...]

Transitioning From Traditional to Missional

Posted: 20th May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Ecclesiology, Hospitality, Incarnational, Leadership, Missional, Scripture, Spiritual Formation
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Over the past few months I have had an increasing number of conversations with pastors and church leaders about moving existing churches in a missional direction. I have been asked what key issues or topics need to be considered when attempting to transition a traditional church. The following list is certainly not conclusive or comprehensive, [...]

Announcing mQuest Missional Training

Posted: 18th May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church Planting, Missional, Training
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I am very excited to share about a new training opportunity from Shapevine that will be kicking off this summer called mQuest. The Missional Quest series is a cohort based learning journey that will give participants the opportunity to join a small group of like-minded sojourners with training from Alan Hirsch, Dan Kimball, Neil Cole, [...]

Discipleship & Participating in God’s Mission

Posted: 6th May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missional, Spiritual Formation
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“Within the Christian church, we have tended to define spiritual growth as disengagement from the world rather than engagement with the world. We often measure spiritual growth and formation as an increase in cognitive knowledge about God or religious activities (i.e., greater knowledge of Scripture, a disciplined prayer life, weekly church attendance). In many contexts, [...]

Michael Frost on Missional Effectiveness

Posted: 3rd May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Gospel, Hospitality, Michael Frost, Missional, Video
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In this latest video clip from Michael Frost he speaks to the self-preserving use of resources by the church in North America and how such use leads to an unbiblical separation from the “world.” In the clip Frost shares a great statement when he contends that, “Your missional effectiveness is directly proportional to your relational [...]