The video below (produced/edited by Bill Kinnon) is an interesting conversation between Alan Roxbugh and Pat Keifert. They discuss a wide range of issues, including definitions/descriptions of missional church, common views of the contemporary church, and leadership in missional congregations. In the discussion on leadership I appreciate Keifert’s emphasis on leadership being more about time than [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Pat Keifert on the Missional Church
Posted: 27th August 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Gospel, Kingdom of God, Missiology, Missional, Spiritual Formation, Theology, Video6
Why Focus on the City?
Posted: 12th August 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Community Transformation, MissionalWhy 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 [...]
I haven’t posted for nearly a month primarily because my family took a three week vacation to the east coast. We visited (or in some cases simply drove through) thirteen states, stayed in ten different hotels, and traveled over 3,300 miles. (My wife really should have been a travel agent!) For the most part the [...]