What happens when the commitment to the Kingdom extends beyond the team to the whole organization? What does it look like for us to be a Kingdom-focused people?
Our life of faith and discipleship is about more than just a personal and private faith. Jesus is not satisfied with being Lord of our individual lives. He also wants to be Lord of us. As we seek to give Jesus increasing lordship of our lives, we discover this cannot be fully realized until Jesus is Lord of how we live life with one another.
The scandal of declaring Jesus as Lord is not a confession that there is only one god. Rather, it is the confession that in light of all possible gods, saviors, or lords of our life and informers of our identity, we choose Jesus and Jesus alone.
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…
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…
By: Dave RhodesIf you have been following our blogs this past month, then you know that we have been talking a lot about the core element of mDNA (movement DNA) that we call Jesus is Lord. So much has been written over the last decade by Alan Hirsch, Neil Cole and others about how this…
By: Neil ColeFrancis Chan has used an analogy to shake up our view of church. He says: “Imagine you were alone on a desert island and had no experience at all with Christianity, and a bible washed up on shore so you read it cover to cover. If you then decided you would do church,…
By: Neil Cole I distinctly remember standing up in front of my denomination’s annual gathering giving a report on our church planting efforts. We didn’t plant a single church that year, so I was already uncomfortable. What I could positively report is that we, as a volunteer church planting board, had finally agreed on what…
By: Alan HirschIn The Forgotten Ways I have tried to get under the hood of movements that end up changing their world. What are the key factors that are needed to come together to create an accelerating Jesus movement? In that book I suggest that there are six elements (I call them movementDNA or mDNA) that must coalesce to…
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.…