Archive for June, 2010

Subversive Spirituality & Transforming Mission

Posted: 30th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missional, Prayer, Spiritual Formation
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I am in the process of reading an excellent book by L. Paul Jensen titled Subversive Spirituality: Transforming Mission through the Collapse of Space and Time. I hope to share more in the near future, but for now I want to take a moment and recommend Jensen’s work. Subversive Spirituality is not only a very [...]

John Perkins Said It Right

Posted: 23rd June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Community Transformation, Gospel, Justice, Music, Video
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Here is the new Switchfoot video from their song The Sound (John M. Perkins’ Blues). If you are not familiar with John Perkins check out the wiki page on Perkins, or better yet, go to the John M. Perkins Foundation for Reconciliation & Development (JMPF.org).

Michael Frost on Kingdom “Measuring Sticks”

Posted: 21st June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Ecclesiology, Gospel, Kingdom of God, Michael Frost, Missional, Video
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I really like this short video of Michael Frost talking about the importance of developing new “measuring sticks” or “scorecards” for the church. He emphasizes the need to find new ways to measure where the rule/reign of God is flourishing. What sort of things can we “measure” that will illustrate evidence of the Kingdom? This [...]

Newbigin on Missional Church

Posted: 16th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, Missional, Theology
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The folks at Forge Canada offer a concise summary of Newbigin’s view of missional community from The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: Newbigin distinguished between missions and mission. The church both “does mission” and “is a mission.” Missions are specific activities undertaken by a human decision to bring the gospel to places or situations where [...]

Missional Community . . . Simple

Posted: 14th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Missional, Video
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Missional Meanderings

Posted: 13th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books
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I haven’t posted for several days partly because of the busy past week hosting a mission team from Arkansas that was here in Kansas City assisting with our church planting efforts. I want to publicly thank the team from Lone Rock Baptist Church for the exceptional construction work they did on a couple of our [...]