By: Alan HirschReJesus the church!This is the first post in the series. For the next month we will focus on the first and most important mDNA Jesus is Lord and its associated competency, what we call Identity Declaring.Much can be said about the defining role of Jesus in the ecclesia…what we call the church. Christians have…
By: Neil ColeI have been a published author and pioneer of organic church movements for 20 years (yeah, I’m officially old). The term “organic” has come to mean many things in church world over those years. Often it has been hijacked from my original ideas and mutated to mean something less than healthy. It has become as…
By: Alan HirschOver the last 2 years, I have been delighted to work with a unique group of movement-minded practitioners and thinkers about the next chapter of the missional conversation. Will Mancini, Dave Rhodes, Neil Cole, and myself have been dreaming and designing the process for well over a year now. (Jessie Cruikshank, Nick Boring,…
By: Alan HirschThe great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.~ H. Richard NiebuhrForeword from Beyond the Local Church: How Apostolic Movements can Change the World, by Sam Metcalfe & Alan Hirsch.One of the more stimulating books I…
The larger and more expensive your church is the less likely you will multiply. Addition becomes easier with the momentum of church growth, but multiplication becomes harder.
By: Will ManciniOver the last 2 years, I have been delighted to work with a unique group of movement-minded practitioners and thinkers about the next chapter of the missional conversation. The outcome of those gatherings is a brand new non-profit consultative training organization named 100 Movements.The big idea of 100 Movements is to shift from conversation…