There are four major components of what I call the “Commission Continuum”–that is the metaprocess of kingly administration from beginning to end. Those four components are assimilation, membership, discipleship, and leadership. I just completed the first component of the assimilation process and want to address the membership process in a couple of blogposts. Once regular [...]
Archive for May 2010
Monday is for “kingly” administration: The Assimilation Process, Part 4 (Prospective Members)
May 24, 2010The Assimilation Process: Part 1: First-Time Guest Part 2: New Believers Part 3: Regular Attenders The fourth and final aspect of the assimilation process is the prospective member (I will launch into the membership process next). Membership in a local church may be a difficult thing for some attenders, especially if they think that it [...]
Missional Church Planting – Working Toward a Definition
May 18, 2010Bob Thune of Coram Deo in Omaha has recently put out a working definition of missional church planting. His definition? Church Planting is planting the seed of the gospel in the soil of a culture and trusting the sovereignty of God to bring forth a thriving church. The four elements Thune wanted to capture in [...]
Monday is for “kingly” administration: The Assimilation Process, Part 3 (Regular Attenders)
May 17, 2010The Assimilation Process Part 1: First-Time Guests Part 2: New Christians In Part 3 of the assimilation process, I want to focus on those who are regular attenders but not in the membership process. Whereas in part two, people are seeking to understand the gospel, in part three, people are seeking to understand your church. [...]
Monday is for “kingly” administration: The Assimilation Process, Part 2 (Attenders – New Christians)
May 11, 2010I know today is not Monday, so I apologize for this post being a little late. Last week, I took up part one in the assimilation process, focusing on first-time guests. After people visit for the first time, there is typically an in between period where they are no longer new but also not in [...]
Jared Wilson on the Gospel
May 10, 2010Last Saturday, my friend Jared Wilson spoke at The Calling, a youth conference sponsored by Atmosphere Church. Below are the MP3′s to his four talks, one of them being a Q&A on gospel centrality. Check them out. » The Resilient Gospel » The Empowering Gospel » Crucifying the American Dream » Q&A on Gospel Centrality
Baptist Messenger Interview with Ronnie Floyd on the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Report
May 9, 2010If you are like me and have not read all the GCR articles coming out, you might not be aware of all the conversation around the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force (GCRTF) of the SBC. Doug Baker, editor of the Baptist Messenger of Oklahoma, sat down with the chairman of the GCRTF, Ronnie Floyd, to [...]
Love Your Neighbor – Battling Indifference
May 4, 2010Inflections really do matter, and if I could guest the inflection of the lawyer who approached Jesus in Luke 10, it would be “Who is my neighbor?” It was an attempt of self-justification, of validating his own standing before the second table of the law, and it was this question which launched Jesus into the [...]
Monday is for “kingly” administration: The Assimilation Process, Part 1 (First-Time Guest)
May 3, 2010First of all, I want to say thanks to all of you who agreed to join in on these Monday discussions on church-related systems and processes (what I’m calling kingly administration). We are all learners and laborers together for church health and gospel growth, and I believe our churches will be better served when we [...]
LOST Finale Thoughts
May 23, 2010My wife absolutely loved watching the show LOST for the past six years. Consequently, I became a regular viewer, though I am probably unqualified to make any real conclusions about the show. We have been discussing what the point of the whole show was about, and here’s my guess in a nutshell. There were three [...]
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