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
Social Justice Handbook
Posted: 20th August 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Community Transformation, Incarnational, Justice, Missiology, Missional, Scripture, Spiritual FormationComments Off
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Church in a Broken World
Posted: 20th April 2011 by Brad Brisco in Church, Forge, Gospel, Incarnational, Justice, Kingdom of God, Lesslie Newbigin, Michael Frost, Missiology, Missional, VideoCheck out these two challenging and inspiring talks by Micheal Frost from the recent Upstream Collective Vision Tour in Prague.
We cannot in all good conscience obey your unjust laws, because noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. Throw us in jail, and we shall still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and we shall still love you. Send your hooded perpetrators of violence into [...]
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 [...]
Evening Prayer
Posted: 18th October 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Justice, Missional, Prayer, Way of JesusHeavenly Father, give me a heart like the heart of Jesus, a heart more ready to minister than to be ministered to, a heart moved by compassion towards the weak and the oppressed, a heart set upon the coming of Your Kingdom in the world. I pray tonight, for all those sorts and conditions of [...]
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).
Social Justice Handbook
Posted: 26th January 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Incarnational, Justice, MissionalIf 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 [...]
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 [...]
During the conference this week Eric Swanson made an interesting comment about the church’s ministry with the poor. While reflecting on Matthew 26:11, when Jesus says “You will always have the poor with you,” he stated that while there will always be the poor among us, it shouldn’t be the same poor. In other words, [...]
I was reminded today of this post from a couple of years ago that helps us see clearly God’s heart for the poor, widows, orphans and foreigners. If you have any doubt about the volume of scripture that speaks to this topic, then consider this sampling: Exodus 22:21 “You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners [...]
“We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in [...]
U2: Unexpected Prophets
Posted: 26th January 2009 by Brad Brisco in Culture, Justice, MusicTags: U2
I recently ran across a very enjoyable article by Dr. Steven Harmon (my former theology professor in seminary) entitled “U2: Unexpected Prophets.” If you are a U2 fan I suspect you will enjoy Harmon’s observations as much as I did. Here is the concluding paragraph: In these and other songs of social engagement, Bono and [...]