A Biblical Vision for Racial Reconciliation
Is not the mission of God to see people not only reconciled to God, but also diverse groups reconciled to each other? In this video Leonce Crump challenges us to pursue racial reconciliation in light...
View Article5 Tips For Multiplying Your Group (#4 Is One That Everyone Needs To Hear)
Gospel communities on mission are sending agencies into new neighborhoods, cities, and nations. To be clear, it is not that gospel communities grow in numbers and need to split, or that communities...
View ArticleTop 3 Missional Community Misconceptions
This is a fact of life: when people are talking and listening crucial things get misunderstood. Unspoken expectations and burdens are shared unintentionally between two communicating forces. No one has...
View Article5 Trends to Watch in the Missional Community Conversation
As I consider the current missional community conversation, there are 5 major tends to watch conversation over the course of this year. These trends are not necessarily changes to the missional...
View Article5 Trends: Re-Valuing Sundays as Missional
My last article focused on the 5 trends to watch in the missional community conversation this year. These trends are not necessarily changes to the missional community and church conversation, they...
View ArticleTop 5 Reasons People Don’t Lead a Missional Community
There are any number of reasons that people choose not to lead a Missional Community. As we seek to engage the people God has entrusted to us and to mobilize them into Jesus’ mission, here are some of...
View ArticleThe Only Way to Make Disciples
Patiently… It’s also the only way to make a community, multiply a community, and plant new communities in a healthy way. But it’s also not the American way, nor the American church way. We want to...
View ArticleGospel Neighboring
As Chris and Britten Buster lead an ever growing missional community of 19 adults and over 20 kids, they learn how to be a good neighbor and share the love of Christ with their friends and neighbors....
View ArticleDope Church
Dope Church is a growing community of Christians committed to being family with their neighbors struggling in addiction, the sex industry, and the criminal lifestyle. They do this by building...
View ArticleQuit Listening To Missional Experts
My favorite book on the church and God’s mission is Total Church. I admire Steve Timmis and Tim Chester tremendously and I have learned so much from them. I can say the same for Alan Hirsch, Jeff...
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