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March 2017

March 24, 2017

Is Mission an Enigma?

Never has the church been more obsessed with the meaning of "mission" and, at the...

September 2016

September 01, 2016

“Missional” May Not be What You Think

A well-known NT scholar recently asked me what "missional" meant and he said he had...

February 2016

February 01, 2016

The Cookie Cutter Church Challenge

There is this problem -- and it's endemic to America -- of thinking that if a...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Pastor-Theologian: A Different Angle (by David Fitch)

A few weeks back my colleague David Fitch had an important post on the pastor-theologian...

December 2014

December 01, 2014

Ed Stetzer on Missional in the Way of Jesus

Good post by Ed Stetzer: I cannot define the word “missional,” at least not in...

August 2013

August 11, 2013

Church Planting Stress

Ed Stetzer's article about losing the soul in the church planting process is worth reading...

August 11, 2013

Yoder and Missional Theology

John Howard Yoder, famed Anabaptist/Mennonite theologian and ethicist, on what is often today called "missional":...

May 2013

May 26, 2013

Mission, not ours, God’s: A Sermon (by Mark Stevens)

Our friend, Mark Stevens, down under in Adelaide, a wonderful spot on God's green earth,...

April 2013

April 12, 2013

Missional at Missio Alliance

Kris and I are in Alexandria VA at the first Missio Alliance Conference, a conference...

April 01, 2013

Lost in Conversation: Time for a Witness

How do Christians go about their world as a witness without falling into one of...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

Incarnational Life

Suddenly some Christian leaders began talking about "incarnation" and "incarnational" but the terms were referring...

March 25, 2013

The Mission of God

Undoubtedly one enduring term today is the word "missional." What is "missional," you ask? The...

March 20, 2013

Prodigal Christianity

My friend and colleague, David Fitch, is the co-author of a book with his co-pastor...

November 2012

November 07, 2012

An Every Person Ministry

Tim Keller suggests it takes about 20-25% of a congregation to be engaged in ministry...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Reformed and Missional

The word "missional" has a history: it owes its origins in Karl Barth who spoke...

October 09, 2012

Free Churches

The Reformation attempted to purify the church from corruptions. Luther's and Calvin's reforms were aimed...

October 04, 2012

Practices of Missional Spirituality

The first missional theologian in the church -- after the resurrection -- may have been...

September 2012

September 28, 2012

Protestants and Missional

No one questions that the Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox have a high(er than average)...

September 27, 2012

The Four Elements of Missional Theology

If you had to pick the top three, four, or five ideas in "missional theology"...

September 25, 2012

Smooth Places in Turbulent Waters

Perhaps the 21st Century will be when evangelicalism develops an ecclesiology. Perhaps, I say, because...

September 24, 2012

Missio Alliance

Just in case you haven't heard, we are a part of a new coalition of...

September 20, 2012

Turbulent Waters in the Church

That last fifty years or so has seen an area of deep and troubling turbulence...

September 19, 2012

Seven Habits of a Lifeless Church

Let us say that a church alive is marked by Christlikeness among the people, worship...

September 17, 2012

Homeschooled and Missional? Absolutely!

Recently we reposted a post of Tony Jones on the conflict of missional and homeschooling....

September 12, 2012

Missional Spirituality

Discipleship is the key to missional because it is discipleship -- the process of forming...

August 2012

August 13, 2012

Is “Incarnation” the Right Word for Ministry?

J. Todd Billings, a good young theologian in Michigan, has a new CT article that...

July 2012

July 05, 2012

Becoming Missional

I hear it all over the place, and I've had pastors ask me to define...

March 2012

March 30, 2012

Life’s Intersections (:mic)

Our friend Michael Thompson posted this and permitted me to post it here: In the...

January 2012

January 31, 2012

You are Witnesses

When early in the book of Acts Jesus tells his disciples that they are to...

January 29, 2012

Conversation and the Local Church

Highly recommend for anyone wanting to have a more missional church. As the crowds prepare...