Discovering the Simplicity of Missional Communities
Doug Paul shares with the 100Movements team about lessons learned in sparking over 700 missional communities.
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How Wesleyan Holiness teaches us to work through Social Issues
“We engage not only with ideas and propositions, but principally through dialogue with people in the context of relationships. As those who participate in the ministry of reconciliation, we are always speaking with someone whom God loves, not at them.”
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FINDING UNITY IN OUR DIVERSITY
The disciples were all from different political factions and would not have normally shared a meal with each other. What does it mean to sit next to someone who you despise? In that space, Jesus creates a common table.
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The Reality of Being a Movement with Brian Sanders
Beyond the glamour and hype, what does it really mean to be a movement right now? Brian Sanders of Tampa Underground discusses with the 100 Movements team what it looks like to be a movement. From guiding concepts to concrete organizational principles, Brian answers key questions on the practice of supporting what God is doing through people, while stewarding its forward direction.
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Making disciples while in survival mode?
I work with a lot of churches, church networks, and denominations. The vantage point of this is the opportunity to see trends and the movement of the spirit of God in the body of Christ at large. On the whole, this vantage point is overwhelmingly encouraging, with the occasional point of discouragement. One point of…
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God in a Doctrinal box
I am busy researching for my next book project (with Mark Nelson) which is about seeing God, people, and mission through a much larger frame. Trying to expose damaging reductionisms in our thinking and practice that have all but obscured who God is in himself, but also have reduced the ways in which we can…
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Church for the Rest of Us
One thing I always find interesting about church as we know it are the narratives and archetypes we have so unquestioningly accepted. I believe that for us to become a people of faith that can reach the whole word, these narratives should be teased out so that we can examine them and make choices on…
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Finding your War Time Rhythms
A quick observation from what I’m seeing in some of the people I’m coaching right now and experiencing in my own life.For many Christian leaders, a sad reality is that there aren’t the scriptural patterns of abiding with Jesus in a rhythmic way that define their reality. Rather than working from a place of rest,…
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God is already working. So what now? Las Vegas gives a clue.
One of the most basic assumptions of the incarnational missionary is to assume God is already involved in every person’s life and is calling them to himself through his Son. Our mindset should not be the prevalent one of taking God with us wherever we might go. It must be, instead, that we join God…
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Why the difference between Discipleship & Spiritual Formation matters
Maybe it’s just me, but lately, I’ve noticed that many people confuse or blur the difference between DISCIPLESHIP and SPIRITUAL FORMATION.
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