I’ve come to find that healthy churches make disciples in multiple venues, namely church gathered (large group), church scattered (small group), and life-on-life (one-on-one). From a triperspectival approach, church gathered focus on the normative perspective (prophetic), church scattered focuses on the existential perspective (priestly), and the life-on-life focuses on the situational perspective (kingly). Church gathered [...]
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Triperspectival Church Structures
November 7, 2011Triperspectival Transitioning (Crafting Culture)
July 19, 2011I have been thinking in recent weeks about the role of leadership in transitioning and in particular a kind of transitioning that requires a paradigm shift of crafting a new culture. For example, how does a church that has largely been ingrown and maintenance-driven become outward-focused and mission-driven? How do you lead a church that [...]
Triperspectival Pastoral Priorities and Practices
May 24, 2011Yesterday, Dustin Neeley (who runs Church Planting for the Rest of Us) drew our attention to an interview he did with Mark Dever in which he asked about balancing time between sermon preparation and shepherding people. Here’s the video: I resonate with everything that Dever is saying in this interview. One of the more profitable [...]
Audio of Jamie Munson on Triperspectivalism
December 12, 2010Last month, I linked to a short video clip of Jamie Munson priming triperspectivalism prior to his speaking at the Stick Teams Conference. His conference audio is now available through the Resurgence website. If you’d like to download the audio, here you go: –> Jamie Munson Main Session –> Jamie Munson Q&A I will be [...]
The Many Ways of Destroying the Church
December 17, 2009D.A. Carson: “The ways of destroying the church are many and colorful. Raw factionalism will do it. Rank heresy will do it. Taking your eyes off the cross and letting other, more peripheral matters dominate the agenda will do it–admittedly more slowly than frank heresy, but just as effectively over the long haul. Building the [...]
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