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, 2011J.I. Packer’s “Three Facets of Faith” or Triperspectival Catechesis
September 2, 2011J.I. Packer, in his excellent book, Grounded in the Gospel: Building Believers the Old-Fashioned Way, unpacks the practical out workings of the “the glorious Gospel of our blessed God” in what he calls the “three facets of faith.” Here is how Packer explains it: “The essential content of the Faith, then, includes first of all [...]
Triperspectival 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 [...]
Lord Jesus Christ – A Triperspectival Meditation
June 30, 2011The phrase “Lord Jesus Christ” is used throughout the epistles of the Apostle Paul (some 60+ times). For instance, you find it in the beginning of most of his letters to the churches (Rom. 1:7; 1 Cor. 1:2-3; 2 Cor. 1:2; Gal. 1:3; Eph. 1:2; Phil. 1:2; Col. 1:3; 1 Thess. 1:1; 2 Thess. 1:1-2; Philemon 1:3), and you will also find it [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Triperspectival Prayer: Daily Communion Rhythms Through the Mediatorial Offices of Christ
April 1, 2011So that has to be the most Puritan-ish title I’ve ever given a blogpost, and I hope I haven’t lost you already. :) I realize that some of you may not be familiar with triperspectivalism, and if you are in that category, here’s a good list of resources to check out. The purpose of this [...]
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 [...]
Jamie Munson Primes Triperspectivalism
November 11, 2010One of the most frequented “back pages” of my blog is my compilation on Triperspectival Leadership. I was first introduced to multiperspectivalism back in early 2008, and since then, I have employed this paradigm of thinking in preaching, leadership structures, and discipleship process. In the video below, Jamie Munson of Mars Hill Church (Seattle, WA) [...]
Triperspectivalism, Leadership, and Church Planting
March 27, 2009For the record, dispensationalists do not have claim to all the big theological words. Try triperspectivalism (also known as multi-perspectivalism). Over the past three years, I’ve been following David Fairchild and Drew Goodmanson’s writings from a distance but have never really been in a situation where I thought triperspectivalism would come to play in my [...]
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