If you are interested in effectively influencing others to take action on issues of social action, then I would highly recommend “Social Justice Handbook: Small Steps For A Better World” by Mae Elise Cannon. I am not familiar with any other resource of this kind. Cannon provides a comprehensive guide to the topic of social justice that is not [...]
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Social Justice Handbook
Posted: 20th August 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Community Transformation, Incarnational, Justice, Missiology, Missional, Scripture, Spiritual FormationComments Off
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 in a Broken World
Posted: 13th April 2011 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Culture, Michael Frost, Missiology, MissionalYou don’t have to leave your office or home to participate in Michael Frost’s One Day events April 13 and 18 in Prague and Budapest during the upcoming JetSet tour. View videos posted soon after each discussion led by Frost about “Church in a Broken World.” Then share you input and ask questions by commenting [...]
A New Metric For Influencing the Community
Posted: 14th January 2011 by Brad Brisco in Community Transformation, Justice, MissionalComments Off
One of the crucial topics in the missional church conversation involves the creation of new scorecards. The church must move beyond measuring success by the traditional indicators of attendance, buildings and finances. Instead we must create new scorecards to measure ministry effectiveness. These new scorecards will include measurements that point to the church’s impact on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Kansas City Missional Church Conference with Reggie McNeal
Posted: 6th July 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Ecclesiology, Missional, Networks, TrainingComments Off
Mark your calendars for an event coming up this September in Kansas City. We will be hosting a conference titled “Turning the Church Inside/Out” with Reggie McNeal. The conference will be on Tuesday, September 14th from 9:00am to 5:30pm. McNeal will lead three main sessions focused on helping church leaders understand the cultural shifts taking [...]
John Perkins Said It Right
Posted: 23rd June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Community Transformation, Gospel, Justice, Music, VideoHere 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, VideoI 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 [...]
Transitioning From Traditional to Missional
Posted: 20th May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Ecclesiology, Hospitality, Incarnational, Leadership, Missional, Scripture, Spiritual FormationOver 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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Community Transformation Audios
Posted: 4th December 2009 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Culture, Gospel, Incarnational, Justice, Kingdom of God, LeadershipComments Off
Here are two additional sessions from last month’s missional church conference. In these two sessions Eric Swanson speaks to the topic of community transformation. The final 30 minutes of session one includes the audio of an animated short film titled The Man Who Planted Trees. The film is the story of a solitary sheperd who [...]
Audio From KC Missional Church Conference
Posted: 1st December 2009 by Brad Brisco in Church, Community Transformation, Missional, Networks, TrainingHere are the first two audio presentations from the Kansas City Missional Network Gathering. In session one, Eric Swanson, author of The Externally Focused Church, shares the characteristics of EF Churches. These characteristics include: They believe that their communities can’t be healthy without the church. They believe Christians don’t grow until they begin serving. They [...]
Why Focus on the City?
Posted: 28th November 2009 by Brad Brisco in Books, Community Transformation, Culture, Incarnational, Missional, Spiritual FormationWhy 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 [...]