Be sure to mark your calendars now for the Sentralized 2012 gathering in Kansas City this September 27th-29th. We will once again be hosting some of the best missional thinkers and practitioners in the world. Come spend time with and learn from Alan and Deb Hirsch, Michael Frost, Neil Cole, Hugh Halter, Dan Kimball, Darryl [...]
Archive for the ‘Missional’ Category
Start with Spiritual Formation
Posted: 29th January 2012 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missional, Spiritual FormationWhen considering what it will take for an existing congregation to move in a missional direction, I believe one of the key starting points is to begin with discipleship, or spiritual formation. Now having said that, I also believe we have to be careful not to think it is a purely linear process. In other [...]
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 [...]
ReThink Church as Mission with Hugh Halter
Posted: 28th December 2011 by Brad Brisco in Missional, TrainingJoin us for a one day seminar surrounding the topic of church and mission with Hugh Halter. Hugh was a speaker at the recent Sentralized Conference here in Kansas City. He is the national director of Missio, a ministry team committed to training, developing, and apprenticing Incarnational leaders for the church. Within Missio, Hugh co-directs the MCAP, an [...]
Jesus did not send his students out to start governments or even churches as we know them today…. They were, instead, to establish beachheads of his person, word, and power in the midst of a failing and futile humanity. They were to bring the presence of the kingdom and its King into every corner of [...]
The “Casualness” of Hospitality
Posted: 16th December 2011 by Brad Brisco in Hospitality, Incarnational, MissionalIn preparation for a new writing project that my friend Lance Ford and I are working on, I have been doing some extra study on the topic of biblical hospitality. I use the adjective “biblical” to differentiate the concept of hospitality from the typical American understanding of “entertaining.” When properly understood, and lived out, biblical [...]
Here is a fabulous lecture by Christopher Wright discussing the need to understand a “missional basis of the Bible” rather than a “biblical basis of mission.”
Oh God, when I have food, help me to remember the hungry; When I have work, help me to remember the jobless; When I have a warm home, help me to remember the homeless; When I am without pain, help me to remember those who suffer; And remembering, help me to destroy my complacency and [...]
This is an article that I wrote a few years ago that I have been asked to repost here, hope it provides some helpful, simple ways to get to know your neighbors. A few years ago our family moved to a new part of town to plant a church. We were convinced that God placed [...]
Dear Lord, teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost; to fight and not to heed the wounds; to toil and not to seek for rest; to labour and not to seek reward, save that of knowing that I do your will. [...]
One Day Gathering with Mindy Caliguire
Posted: 28th October 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missional, Spiritual Formation, TrainingJoin us for a one day seminar on the topic of spiritual formation and mission with Mindy Caliguire on Tuesday, December 6th. Mindy was a speaker at the recent Sentralized Conference here in Kansas City. She is the founder of Soul Care, a spiritual formation ministry, and Director of Transformation Ministry for the Willow Creek Association. Her [...]
The Road to Missional
Posted: 20th October 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Ecclesiology, Forge, Incarnational, Michael Frost, MissionalIn the introduction of The Road to Missional Michael Frost pushes back on those who suggest that “missional” is simply the latest church buzzword that is quickly losing its usefulness. He writes: If the missional conversation is over, it occurs to me that it probably hasn’t really ever been had. That’s because “missional” is not [...]
Deb Hirsch at Sentralized Conference
Posted: 5th October 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Hospitality, MissionalOut of all the speakers that presented at the Sentralized Conference last week, Deb Hirsch’s talk on “Refocusing the Family” received the greatest amount of feedback. Deb asked why so many Christian households remain firmly shut to outsiders? Why is it that we find it so hard to open our homes? She stated that many [...]
The Benefits of an Incarnational Witness
Posted: 17th September 2011 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Ecclesiology, Incarnational, Kingdom of God, MissionalThe case for an incarnational approach to missional witness is based, on the one hand, on the character of the biblical record; that is, the way in which the church’s missionary vocation is shaped by the earthly ministry of Jesus. The emphasis upon the necessary congruence of witness is rooted in God’s way of revealing [...]
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, TrainingThere 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 [...]