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September 2013

September 27, 2013

Who/What Are the “Circuit Riders” of the 21st Century?

By now we should all be familiar with the sobering statistics about the decline of...

September 26, 2013

Fresh Expressions U.S. Has a New Facebook Page and National Gathering in March 2014

Fresh Expressions U.S. is, quite simply, the U.S. expression of the Fresh Expressions movement, which...

September 13, 2013

Missions vs. Missional: What Ed Stetzer Gets Wrong

Ed Stetzer, president of Lifeway Research (an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention), writing in...

September 09, 2013

What Does “Missional” Mean? Answer: A Subtle but Significant Shift

It's been a while since I attempted to answer the question, "What does it mean...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Context Is God(‘s)

My friend Kyle Chowning has a humorous blog post today about the importance of context...

August 19, 2013

American Baptists Asking Missional Questions and Seeking New Vocabulary

Back in June, the American Baptist denomination hosted it's biennial Mission Summit in Overland Park

June 2013

June 09, 2013

Maybe Methodists Are Not So Missional After All

I've written before about some exciting missional things happening in the United Methodist Church. Wes...

March 2013

March 03, 2013

Is This The Link Between Mission and Liturgy/Worship?

From Catholic missiologist John C. Sivalon in his book God's Mission and Postmodern Culture: "We...

February 2013

February 20, 2013

Who ISN’T Missional?

Tony Jones has a great reflection on his blog today about labels such as "neo-Reformed,"...

February 14, 2013

A New Metric for Missional Engagement: Love

Jonathan Larson penned the musical Rent in 1994. One of the play's theme songs is...

February 14, 2013

How Is Fasting for Lent Missional?

Thomas Turner is inviting you to sign up for his email newsletter in exchange for...

December 2012

December 04, 2012

Who Wants to Spend 4 Hours Watching Reggie McNeal Talk About the Missional Church?

I do! And probably a lot more of you out there, as well. Well, we're...

December 02, 2012

The Challenge and Promise of Advent

‎From Ted Jennings, author of Transforming Atonement: A Political Theology of the Cross: "What we...

November 2012

November 04, 2012

My Sermon on What Is the Missional Church?

Two weeks ago, I had the privilege of preaching at The Table, a new emerging...

September 2012

September 19, 2012

We Are All Pirates Now

It's Talk Like a Pirate Day today, and I'm excited to recommend the best possible...

September 10, 2012

#GodWhoSends: The Struggle With Defining Missional

In his seminal book God Who Sends: A Fresh Quest for Biblical Mission, Dr. Francis...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

Is This the #1 Issue in Missional Shift?

Len Hjalmarson thinks he's got a bead on the #1 issue in making the missional...

July 2012

July 20, 2012

#GodWhoSends: Jesus’s Missional Purpose

From the very first page of the "Prologue" to God Who Sends, Dr. Francis DuBose...

July 13, 2012

Unlearning the Old Ways of Doing Mission

My friends Helms and Greg Jarrell are founders of a neo-monastic community in Charlotte, North...

July 10, 2012

Is There Really a “Missional Crisis”?

Dave Kludt, a pastor/equipper at Kairos Hollwood, writing at The Burner Blog last week suggested,...

July 09, 2012

The 4 Ds of Missional Engagement

Over at The House Studio blog, Brad Brisco writes,"When we begin to see the church...

July 07, 2012

McLaren: “Christian Mission Begins With Friendship”

From Brian McLaren's forthcoming book Why Did Jesus, Moses, the Buddha and Mohammed Cross the...

July 06, 2012

Is Our FLOTUS “Missional”?

Tim King writing over at the progressive Sojourners organization blog, wonders "Is Michelle Obama a...

July 05, 2012

Scot McKnight’s Definition of Missional Is Similiar (But Different) Than Mine – Because I’m Not Scot McKnight

Scot McKnight (an entirely different person than Steve Knight, the author of this blog) has...

June 2012

June 29, 2012

Yes, The Missional Church Needs a Deep Theology

That's what Dr. Kyle Roberts argued yesterday over at the Cultivare blog (on the Evangelical...

June 27, 2012

Practicing for the World to Come [VIDEO]

Dale Lature, from CommuniCast.tv, was at Wild Goose Festival 2012 last week, speaking about Occupy...

June 16, 2012

Talkin’ About Re: Vocation

One of the speakers at the recent Children, Youth, and a New Kind of Christianity...

June 15, 2012

What Would Love Want to Do Here?

It's such a great question. It's a very missional question. That's the question that Sarah...

June 14, 2012

Curation Is Missional

Well, at least according to Joanne McNeil, who is quoted as saying, "A good curator...

June 11, 2012

Missional Monday: Book Winner, Stetzer to ACNA, Thin Places, Godspeed, Faith-Based Youth

Here’s a quick recap of last week's major highlights from the missional conversation:The winner of...