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
Alan Hirsch on What is the Church? & How Does the Gospel Change Our Community?
Posted: 2nd August 2011 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Church, Ecclesiology, Gospel, Incarnational, Kingdom of God, Missional, TheologyAlan Hirsch on How the Gospel Changes Discipleship
Posted: 2nd August 2011 by Brad Brisco in Alan Hirsch, Gospel, Incarnational, Kingdom of God, Missional, Spiritual Formation, Theology, Way of JesusComments Off
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 [...]
What Does Place Have to Say to “Missional”?
Posted: 26th March 2011 by Brad Brisco in Forge, Michael Frost, Missiology, Missional, Theology, Training, VideoThe following video clip with Michael Frost speaks to the importance of recognizing and participating in the reign of God in our local context. It is a very brief, yet good reminder of the importance of place in the missional conversation. I am very excited that Michael will be joining us here in Kansas City [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, VideoThe 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 [...]
I like this definition of the gospel from John Dickson: “The gospel is the announcement that God has revealed his kingdom and opened it up to sinners through the birth, teaching, miracles, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, who will one day return to overthrow evil and consummate the kingdom for eternity.” Later in [...]
Newbigin on Missional Church
Posted: 16th June 2010 by Brad Brisco in Church, Ecclesiology, Lesslie Newbigin, Missional, TheologyThe folks at Forge Canada offer a concise summary of Newbigin’s view of missional community from The Gospel in a Pluralist Society: Newbigin distinguished between missions and mission. The church both “does mission” and “is a mission.” Missions are specific activities undertaken by a human decision to bring the gospel to places or situations where [...]
Jesus Manifesto by Sweet and Viola
Posted: 31st May 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Gospel, Spiritual Formation, Theology, Way of JesusSeveral weeks ago I received a pre-release copy of a new book called Jesus Manifesto: Restoring the Supremacy and Sovereignty of Jesus Christ by Leonard Sweet and Frank Viola. I am only three chapters into the book, but I wanted to share a couple of excerpts that really spoke to me: “God is not so [...]
Darrell Guder: Image of Temple vs Tabernacle
Posted: 27th March 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Church, Culture, Ecclesiology, Missional, TheologyComments Off
Over the past couple of years I have been attempting to read through every book from the Gospel and Our Culture Series written or edited by such authors as Darrell Guder, Craig Van Gelder, George Hunsberger, Lois Barrett and others. My two favorites have been the ever popular “Missional Church” and the lesser known “Confident Witness [...]
The Missional Language of “Sending” – Acts
Posted: 8th February 2010 by Brad Brisco in Books, Missiology, Missional, Scripture, TheologyThe Book of Acts In the book of Acts it is common to recognize that Luke’s presentation of mission is less about the “Acts of the Apostles” than about the “Acts of the Holy Spirit,” less about the mission of the church than about the mission of God. [1] “For Luke’s narrative portrays each person of [...]
The Missional Language of “Sending” – John
Posted: 2nd February 2010 by Brad Brisco in Dmin Project, Gospel, Missiology, Missional, Scripture, TheologyWhen considering the theological and biblical underpinnings of the missional church conversation I find the two most helpful topics to address include the concept of missio Dei, or mission of God, and the language of “sending” found throughout Scripture. The chief element to grasp about the missio Dei is that the mission is God’s. We are not [...]