Movement Champion Profile – All Nations
God gave us the dream that within our lifetime, movements of Muslims following Jesus will sweep across the Arab world transforming it from within.
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State of the Missional Movement | Part 5
I think our intellectual egos are the greatest barrier to the Missional movement right now. To quote Dallas Willard, we are all educated way beyond our obedience. We read a book or go to a conference, hear and idea, get an intellectual high off it (literally) and then go home thinking because we connected to a concept that we are changed. This is not how transformation happens and it is a very dangerous practice, cognitively speaking.
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State of the Missional Movement | Part 4
For a long time I believed the “missional conversation” was universally understood as intrinsically theological. No doubt this was due to the fact that I encountered the conversation in a seminary context and projected that encounter out into the wider Christian world. Sadly, the best missional thought has largely been sequestered to the world of Christian academia, impoverishing the Church. Much more thought needs to be given to appropriate strategies for helping church leaders transformationally encounter and appropriate the insights of missional thinking and practice.
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State of the Missional Movement | Part 3
In this 5-on-5 series, we’ve asked 5 missional thinkers and practitioners 5 questions about the state of the Missional movement. Part 3 is today, and here is the question we posed:How are things unfolding in the Western Church differently than you anticipated? JR ROZKOPart 3: Things unfolding differently than anticipated:Alan Hirsch, 100M:Actually I am amazed at…
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State of the Missional Movement | Part 2
In this 5-on-5 series, we’ve asked 5 missional thinkers and practitioners 5 questions about the state of the Missional movement. Part 2 is today, and here is the question we posed:You’ve been a key voice in this conversation and, I’d argue, really important to the shaping of the future of the Western Church. If you had…
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State of the Missional Movement | Part 1
In this 5-on-5 series, we’ve asked 5 missional thinkers and practitioners 5 questions about the state of the Missional movement. Part 1 is today, and here is the question we posed:I guess you can debate the real “start” of the Missional movement in the Western Church. But let’s say it started roughly 15-20 years ago.…
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The Vulnerability of the Western Church
By Neil ColeImagine you are a character in an original series Star Trek episode on some strange magical planet and you are captured for the entertainment of the gods who inhabit the planet. You will fight like a gladiator against a wild beast. You may choose your weapon: a machine gun or a bazooka. You…
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A Parable from the Past: Preparing for What’s to Come
By Neil ColeI’m often asked if I feel that our organic church movement has accomplished all that I had hoped. The answer is no. We are not the movement that I hoped for… yet. But that is partly because I have always felt that what we were doing was preparing the church for what is coming:…
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