Gary Rohrmayer has written a helpful little book (76 pages) called Spiritual Conversations: Creating and Sustaining Them without Being a Jerk. In it, he provides a lot of practical helps to engaging unbelievers and overcoming evangelistic entropy. Below are five ideas for increasing spiritual conversations with people in your life (from chapter 7): 1. Make [...]
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Gary Rohrmayer on Engaging in More Spiritual Conversations
January 31, 2012Roots Reading Initiative (New from PLNTD)
October 24, 2011I’m excited to share with you a new project from PLNTD called the Roots Reading Initiative. Over the past several months, we have been working on the creation of a whole new approach to leadership and networking in church planting through what we are calling the PLNTD ecosystem. We endeavor to create an environment through [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
Meaningful Meals – Excerpts from Tim Chester
August 24, 2011While on vacation last month, I read through Tim Chester’s bookA Meal with Jesus. I found it to be incredibly provocative and insightful regarding the life and mission of Jesus. I was challenged in a number of ways and continue to revisit the exegetical and practical work Chester delivered in this little book. Though I [...]
Sow the Seed!
August 22, 2011Last Thursday, I took my boys in the bike trailer to our local public library to read books together. The library is one of those “third places” I’m realizing that can be a good way to meet people in my community. Like neighborhood parks, the library provides opportunity for my kids to meet other kids, [...]
Christopher Wright on Confronting Idols and Making Disciples
July 20, 2011Christopher J.H. Wright is the author of two significant recent works related to mission, namely The Mission of God and The Mission of God’s People. Last November, he sat down with Bill Kinnon and crew to discuss his plenary address from Lausanne Congress in Cape Town, South Africa. In the excerpt below, Wright explains how [...]
The Mission of the Church
July 18, 2011One of the most significant topics and sustaining conversations in my generation is the mission of the church. Fifteen years ago, “missional” wasn’t in most evangelical’s vocabulary, even less so in their practice. But in recent years, there has been so much talk about mission from all corners of evangelicalism that there is a struggle [...]
Evangelize as Your Edify, Edify as You Evangelize
July 14, 2011One of the biggest tensions regarding philosophy of gathered services is the issue of breadth and depth, or who should be the priority and focus of the ministry. Obviously, everything we do should be first and foremost with a focus and passion for the honor and glory of God. But the question we are [...]
Jeff Vanderstelt on Gospel Fluency, Missional Communities, and Hospitality in America
July 1, 2011Several months ago, NewFrontiers interviewed Jeff Vanderstelt leading up to their conference, and below are three parts of the interview, focusing on gospel fluency, meaning of missional, and hospitality. These are some critical issues for the church today, and Jeff is one of the best at addressing them. Check out these short videos: Gospel Fluency [...]
This is discipling.
June 30, 2011A great little video which packs a big punch. From the FourSquare Church: HT :: Caesar Kalinowski
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 [...]
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