I’ve enjoyed trekking through South Florida the past couple of weeks (Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Ft. Myers, etc.), meeting with pastors and church planters about the upcoming training event, “Cultivating Gospel Community.” Evangelical shorthand would call it a conference, but we are intending it to be an event with practical help [...]
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PLNTD South Florida Conference – Register & Reserve
February 24, 2012Grace Saturated Community
August 16, 2011The more I dwell on the amazing grace of God, the more I realize how deeply I need to grow and be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus (2 Tim. 2:1; 2 Pet. 3:16). I have been dwelling on it quite a bit lately as I have been preaching a mini-series on [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
In Defense of Physical Community
February 2, 2010As a follow-up to my post about technology and the absence of community, I want to direct you a a series of guest posts by Jake Johnson on Rethink Mission wherein he makes a good defense for physical community, contra “internet church.” Here are the links: –> In Defense of Physical Community – Part One [...]
Homogeneous Community vs. Gospel Community
October 21, 2009One of the undercurrent movements of evangelical renewal in local churches has been the rise of missional communities. These small communities are distinct from your typical home groups or small-groups because what unites them and defines them is a common mission. I resonate with this kind of missiologically-informed structuring of the ekklesia scattered as those [...]
Parking the Great Commission
July 7, 2009Sunday night, we parked the Great Commission. It’s fourth of July weekend, lots of people traveling out of town on vacation, and with one of the biggest holidays of the year, the reasonable thing to do would be to alter the Sunday format to accommodate according to lowered expectations. Not exactly. About a month ago, [...]
The Gospel and Biblical Community
April 13, 2009Jonathan Dodson, on the Resurgence, writes: Biblical community is significant not because it makes you feel significant, but because it recognizes that Jesus is our common source of significance. The gospel, not people, becomes the means to the end of our identity. Our sense of acceptance flows from our relationship with Christ which, in turn, [...]
Brethren, Pray for Us
August 1, 2008This morning, I was directed by a brother from Grace to read Winslow’s Morning Thoughts. (Isn’t it a blessing to be fed, edified, and encouraged by others in the body of Christ?) I found this devotional thought wonderfully true and convicting. “Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the [...]
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