I just finished J.D. Greear’s book Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary as part of the Roots Reading Initiative (with PLNTD). His last chapter focuses on the marks of a gospel-centered church, and he provides three of them. They are: 1. In a gospel-centered church, preaching the message of the gospel is the [...]
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Greear on a Gospel-Centered Church
January 30, 2012Cultivating Gospel Communities | PLNTD Conference
January 16, 2012Get all the info here. Register this week for a special opening week rate of just $29. We are only making this rate available to the first 100 who register. I would love for you to this training opportunity on how to cultivate gospel communities on mission from Steve Timmis and Jared Wilson, along with [...]
Communities of Light, Part 2 (Practical Implications)
September 28, 2011In yesterday’s post, I provided some biblical-theological reflection on the theme of “light” in Scripture. These biblical truths and gospel realities are foundational to our identity as God’s people and instructional to our mission in the world. In particular, I would like to argue that communities of light are (1) counter-cultural, (2) confessional, and (3) [...]
Communities of Light, Part 1 (Biblical Theology)
September 27, 2011God is light. I’m not sure we have probed into the depths of that profound reality. I’m not trying to sound abstract or philosophical. The Bible is clear to explain that God is light (1 John 1:5). He dwells in unapproachable light (1 Tim. 5:16) and is considered as “the Father of lights” (James 1:17). [...]
2011 GCM Collective National Conference Audio
September 22, 2011I’ve attended quite a few conferences the past ten years. Some of them engender hype; others bring in large crowds due to the evangelical celebrity culture. But then on a rare occasion, there will come a conference that surprises you in unexpecting ways. It is not that I had low expectations but that the conference [...]
GCM National Conference
September 14, 2011Today through Friday, I will be in Huntsville, AL for the GCM Collective National Conference. If you are unfamiliar with the GCM Collective, I encourage you to check out their website and join their online community. Their vision is simple, and I love it: A gospel community is a group of believers that lives out [...]
Reaching the Lives of Those Who Have Wasted It
July 1, 2011Eleven years ago, John Piper boldly proclaimed these words: I was a college student then, about to embark on my life as someone called to proclaim the gospel Jesus Christ. Never had I imagined then that I would be living in the communities comprised of tragedy after tragedy after tragedy. I live and minister 15 [...]
Jeff Vanderstelt on Networked Structures
May 10, 2011Jeff Vanderstelt of Soma Communities talks about networked structures from the 2010 Verge Missional Community Conference.
Soma Communities | Reorientation Around the Mission
May 5, 2011Over the past two years, Soma Communities ranks in the top five resource centers that have helped me in theology and practice, in particular as it relates to gospel, community, and mission. Jeff Vanderstelt and Caesar Kalinowski are careful theologians and seasoned practitioners who are consistently forwarding the vision of what it means to be [...]
Be-ing on Mission in Community
March 9, 2011There’s a lot of talk these days about missional communities. Currently, I am working through Porterbrook’s Missional Community Life curriculum in three different venues, so I am discussing it quite a bit. About a year ago, I started my kingly moleksine when I accidentally bought a sketchbook moleskine instead of a regular hardback journal. I [...]
Tim Chester on Assessing Gospel Communities
December 6, 2010One of the recent projects I’ve been working on is development assessment metrics for our church’s growth groups and their leaders. Our hope is that through these groups, our body will growth in the areas of gospel, community, and mission. So I have been working to create a metric for evaluating our groups on various [...]
GCM Everyday Audio
November 26, 2010Last month, he GCM Collective held a one-day training focused on the gospel, community, and mission in everyday contexts. Steve Timmis and Tim Chester has a new book coming out soon on the “ordinary” church–living as gospel communities on mission in everyday life, not just Sunday’s. The audio from this one-day conference is not available, [...]
The Gospel Community Conference Audio
November 10, 2010Back in September, The Gospel Community Conference was held in my old neck of the woods (Huntsville, AL). What is the goal of this conference? They state: It is our desire to retake the South through the biblical idea of missional community, the idea that life does not just include some missional activities, our life [...]
Jared Wilson on Under-Programming Church
April 28, 201010 excellent reasons to under-program your church from Jared Wilson. Check them out: 1. You can do a lot of things in a mediocre (or poor) way, or you can do a few things extremely well. 2. Over-programming creates an illusion of fruitfulness that may just be busy-ness. 3. Over-programming is a detriment to single-mindedness [...]
The GCM Collective • Gospel • Community • Mission
April 8, 2010Three BIG areas of my thinking, writing, and ministry exist on the axis of gospel, community, and mission. So when I discovered the GCM Collective, I was very eager to get on board and learn from others who, like myself, have given themselves to them. The GCM Collective exists to promote, create and equip Gospel [...]
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