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		<title>Missional Church Seminar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missions Programs or a Missional Theology?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here 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&#8217;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 an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If The Church Were Christian</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two or three times a month I receive requests to do book reviews on the blog. Depending on the author, publisher, and/or book title I sometimes say, “sure” and other times, “not really interested.” A couple of weeks ago I said “sure” purely on the book title. The book was If the Church Were Christian. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Craig Van Gelder on Missional Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following is a short video (produced and edited by Bill Kinnon) that recently &#8220;resurfaced&#8221; on the internet. It is an interview between Alan Roxburgh and Craig Van Gelder.
Van Gelder is professor of congregational mission at Luther Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is author of “The Essence of the Church,” “The Ministry of the Missional Church,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Deep Gospel from Deep Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because of a two hour flight delay this week, I finally began reading Jim Belcher’s Deep Church: A Third Way Between Emerging and Traditional. I have very much enjoyed the first half of the book.
As I read, I found myself marking up the book more than usual. There is much to appreciate from Belcher&#8217;s insights. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christian Community Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been involved in a good bit of conversation around the topic of community transformation. Fortunately it hasn&#8217;t all been talk, in fact, there has been a good amount of activity taking place through several of the churches in our local network. Much of the activity has been prompted by the conference we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotes on Prayer and Confession</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are four quotes, two on prayer and two on confession, that really spoke to me this past week.
In order to find a person who prays, you have to look for clues: charitableness, good temper, patience, a fair ability to handle stress, resonance, openness to others. What happens to people who pray is that their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Missional Language of &#8220;Sending&#8221; Implicit in Scripture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As presented in the previous posts in this series, the explicit language of sending found throughout the Old and New Testament is substantial. Moreover, the usage of sending language “establishes such a clear picture of mission in the Bible that its unique missional character is seen unmistakably even in events and ideas where the language [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/the-missional-language-of-sending-implicit-in-scripture/</link>
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		<title>The Forgotten Ways Training Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of you that follow this blog are familiar with The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch. It is certainly one of the most significant books in the present missional conversation. If you are not familiar with the book you can read a series of post I did here. I would also highly recommend the more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://missionalchurchnetwork.com/the-forgotten-ways-training-videos-2/</link>
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		<title>The Missional Language of &#8220;Sending&#8221; &#8211; The Epistles &amp; Revelation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Epistles and Revelation
In the Pauline Epistles, there are several clear uses of sending vocabulary, “each conveying a different theological perspective within the larger salvific sphere.” [1] In Romans, Paul speaks of God “sending his own son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering” (8:3). In Romans, Paul also asks how the [...]]]></description>
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