Fromt the Crowded House Network (Steve Timmis/Tim Chester), here is a great video of what life looks like in a gospel community. HT: Z
Posted tagged ‘Missional’
Life in Gospel Communities
May 22, 2012Restless Love
March 7, 2012There’s a lot of talk about being missional these days. There’s not a lot of visual aids, at least not like this one. I found it incredibly moving. May God raise up many men and women like Sara in our generation to take the gospel in the heart of brokenness and ruin and see the [...]
Gary Rohrmayer on Engaging in More Spiritual Conversations
January 31, 2012Gary 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is discipling.
June 30, 2011A great little video which packs a big punch. From the FourSquare Church: HT :: Caesar Kalinowski
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 4
May 6, 2011Part 1: Summary/Overview Part 2: The Three Tiers Part 3: Situational, Existential, Normative So far in this series, I have argued that Christians should engage the culture, beginning with understanding and apply the example of Jesus in John 1:14. Cultural engagement should take place on three dimensions: physical, relational, and spiritual. I showed how these three dimensions [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 3
April 29, 2011Part 1: Summary/Overview || Part 2: The Three Tiers You may be wondering how or where the triperspectival paradigm fits in what I have explained so far. In yesterday’s post, I explained the three tiers: physical, relational, and spiritual. When people normally talk about triperspectivalism, they are referring to the three offices of Christ: prophet, [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 2
April 28, 2011In yesterday’s post, I tried to give you a little overview of the triperspectival paradigm and in particular how it draws from the incarnation of Christ (John 1:14) and the outworking of His mission. In this post, I want to dig a little deeper into the relationship of the physical, relational, and spiritual in regards [...]
Triperspectivalism and Cultural Engagement, Part 1
April 27, 2011For the past several months, I have been thinking and working through a triperspectival paradigm for cultural engagement that I initially worked up in the living room of my church planting apprentice. The questions that kept surfacing in my mind were, “What will it take to connect with people in this community? How will their [...]
The Places and Purposes of My Work
March 18, 2011Yesterday afternoon, I was discussing with a few guys on Twitter how and where we spend our time working. When I came to Grace nearly three years ago, there was no “office” space for me at the church building, which meant that I was to do the majority of my work either at home or [...]
Tim Keller on the Nature of a Missional Church
February 17, 2011From his lecture “Contextual and Missional” at Urban Plant Life Conference in London, Tim Keller talks about the nature of a missional church: A missional church gears absolutely every single part of its life–its worship, community, public discourse and preaching education–for the presence of non-believers from the culture surrounding it. A missional church’s congregation reflects [...]
NEW Tim Keller Reading Group in 2011!
December 14, 2010This morning, I announced on PLNTD a training opportunity for missional leaders and church planters by reading through 20 of the most significant articles written by Tim Keller on church planting, gospel centrality, missional living, and cultural engagement. These 20 articles are compiled as a “reader” and will be covered over an 18 week period [...]
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