There is less than four two weeks 2 days until the kick off of the Sentralized conference on September 29th. It will begin with a book release party on Thursday night featuring both Michael Frost’s new book, “The Road to Missional” and Hugh Halter’s “Sacrilege.” You can now take a look at the rest of the conference schedule, as well [...]
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Sentralized Missional Church Conference
Posted: 4th September 2011 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Books, Church, Church Planting, Ecclesiology, Forge, Gospel, Hospitality, Incarnational, Justice, Kingdom of God, Michael Frost, Missiology, Missional, Networks, Spiritual Formation, Theology, Training3
Seven Steps Toward Renewal
Posted: 16th July 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, Ecclesiology, Gospel, Kingdom of God, Missional, TheologyComments Off
I just read the epilogue (which is titled From Here to the Kingdom) from The Community of the King by Howard Snyder. It was encouraging to read his suggestions for a local church to increase its “kingdom vision and become more authentically the community of the King” written nearly 35 years ago. 1. Undertake a [...]
Church Planting & the Missio Dei
Posted: 11th June 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, TheologyStuart Murray’s “Church Planting: Laying Foundations” is one of the finest books written on the topic of church planting. While the vast majority of books on church planting focus on the “how,” Murray offers a very welcome emphasis on both the theological and historical framework for church planting. When discussing the theological foundation for church [...]
Sentralized Missional Conference
Posted: 14th May 2011 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Church, Church Planting, Community Transformation, Forge, Gospel, Hospitality, Incarnational, Justice, Kingdom of God, Leadership, Michael Frost, Missiology, Missional, Networks, TrainingComments Off
I am very excited to share some details about a conference scheduled for this September here in Kansas City. I believe the Sentralized Conference is going to play a significant role in the ongoing missional conversation in the United States. There were at least two major reasons for organizing a conference like Sentralized. First, we [...]
Church 3.0 Conference with Neil Cole
Posted: 18th February 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, Ecclesiology, Missiology, Missional, Training, VideoWe will be hosting Neil Cole for a one day conference in Kansas City on Wednesday, March 23rd from 9:00am to 3:30pm. The conference will take place at Westside Family Church. The cost will be $29, which will include lunch. Neil is an experienced church planter and pastor. He is the founder of the Awakening [...]
Alan Hirsch on Cultural Distance & the American Missionary Problem
Posted: 14th February 2011 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Church, Church Planting, Culture, Ecclesiology, Forge, Gospel, Missiology, Missional, Theology, Training, Video, Way of JesusBelow are two very helpful videos presentations by Alan Hirsch from last year’s AND conference at Granger Community Church. The bulk of the first video is spent on the very important topic of cultural distance and the problem it creates for meaningful communication of the gospel. Building upon the cultural distance discussion, he then proceeds [...]
Alan Hirsch & the DNA of Gospel Movements
Posted: 27th October 2010 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Church Planting, Gospel, Missional, VideoI love this video overview of the DNA of Gospel movements that Alan gave at the Verge conference last year. Not only is the brief description of each of the six elements helpful, but one of the first statements that Alan makes in the clip should be an enormous challenge to the church in the [...]
Tim Keller & Urban Mission
Posted: 25th October 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Church Planting, Community Transformation, Ecclesiology, Hospitality, Incarnational, Justice, Missiology, Missional, Networks, VideoThis is an excellent video of Tim Keller from the Cape Town 2010 Lausanne Congress. Keller contends there are two major ways to reach cities with the gospel; planting/renewing contextual churches and city-wide gospel movements. He does a great job in just 18 minutes to unpack each. You can also download a copy of the [...]
Church Planting and Missio Dei
Posted: 12th September 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, Ecclesiology, Missiology, Missional, TheologyStuart Murray’s “Church Planting: Laying Foundations” is one of the finest books written on the topic of church planting. While the vast majority of books on church planting focus on the “how,” Murray offers a very welcome emphasis on both the theological and historical framework for church planting. When discussing the theological foundation for church planting [...]
Announcing mQuest Missional Training
Posted: 18th May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church Planting, Missional, TrainingComments Off
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, [...]
Michael Frost: Step Into The Way of Mission
Posted: 12th April 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, Community Transformation, Gospel, Michael Frost, Scripture, Video, Way of JesusThis past weekend I had the privilege of attending the launch of Forge America in Chicago. It was a great time of networking and hearing how God is moving in various contexts around the world. It was also fantastic to hear from Deb and Alan Hirsch as they shared the heart of their new book Untamed: Reactivating [...]
From Market Driven to Missionary Strategies
Posted: 2nd April 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, Missiology, MissionalChurches throughout the Western world find themselves increasingly marginalized from society as they endeavor to relate the good news to people whose assumptions and attitudes have been shaped by modernity and postmodernity. Our post-Christian, neopagan, pluralistic North American context presents crosscultural missionary challenges every bit as daunting as those we would face on any other [...]
Reggie McNeal Video
Posted: 29th March 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Church Planting, Community Transformation, Ecclesiology, Missional, VideoWhile there are several classic McNeal nuggets in this 30 minute conference session from earlier this year, there was one particular metaphor that stood out that I had never heard/read from Reggie before. He uses a helpful technology metaphor when speaking of the differences of extracting oil out from under the sands of Saudi Arabia [...]
Missional Church Seminar
Posted: 5th March 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Church Planting, Dmin Project, Ecclesiology, Leadership, Missiology, Missional, NetworksComments Off
Over the past year I have had an increasing number of conversations with pastors and church leaders about the church’s inability to “reach” their local communities. Many local churches have come to the realization that they have lost the ability to “attract” people to church programs and events. They sense that something has changed, but [...]
Missions Programs or a Missional Theology?
Posted: 4th March 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Church Planting, Missiology, MissionalHere is an extended quote from a great book by Linda Bergquist and Allan Karr. I hope to post a review for the book in the next week. Today’s church has posed itself a serious challenge: to live according to its missional nature rather than simply organize around mission activities. This challenge is something of [...]