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March 2014

March 10, 2014

Seven Ways Church Leaders Can Help People Live Missionally Through Their Vocations

In 2012 and 2013, I helped to lead a “Vocation Infusion Learning Community” composed of...

February 2014

February 10, 2014

How Can the Church Affirm Work? – Tod Bolsinger

In this 60-second video, Tod Bolsinger talks about how churches make the mistake of perpetuating...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

From a pastor, To pastors: Are we doing a great disservice to our congregants?

Having been in ministry for over 20 years, I have come to a conclusion about...

August 2013

August 05, 2013

Five Ways Pastors Can Affirm Faith, Work, and Vocation

Art Lindsey, over at the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, writes "Today’s evangelical Church...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

Vocation as Parish: The Missional Possibilities of Inhabiting Your Workplace

When I hear someone talk about being more “missional” or “incarnational” in my faith, I...

March 2013

March 01, 2013

What is your church measuring? What does that say about your mission?

Edgar Schein, Professor of Management at MIT, says that whatever an organization measures and how...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

The Mission of God and the Missional Church

According to Alan Hirsch in The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church, a missional reading...

February 21, 2013

Missional Living in Our Daily Work

At one of the Missional Church’s most read websites, David Fitch’s Reclaiming the Mission, Cyd Holscaw...

February 05, 2013

Ten Ways to Encourage Vocational Stewardship in Your Church

- 1. During corporate worship services, pray for members by vocation. This could take a...

November 2012

November 28, 2012

The People of God or The Corporation of God?

Is the local church an institution that does the mission of God, or is it...

October 2012

October 10, 2012

Is Full-Time Vocational Ministry the Highest Calling?

I recently wrote an article for our friends over at The High Calling. The High...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

The Church’s Mission for the Sake of the Kingdom of God

God’s Mission and Our Mission of Reconciliation The Church functions for the sake of the Kingdom...

September 07, 2012

The Tension between the “Pastoral Context” and the “Missional Context”

Having planted a church, I’ve become convinced of something. New churches in North America must...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Dualistic Christianity and the Church

In the Western Church, we’re trapped in a worldview that assumes that we live and...

August 27, 2012

Missional or Attractional?

The “Missional Model” of church ministry sees mission as the mode of operation for Christianity. Mission means...

August 27, 2012

Missional: Who God Calls He Sends

A look at the Moses Paradigm of "Called and Sent" [image source_type="attachment_id" source_value="2260" align="right" width="140"...

August 27, 2012

Reggie McNeal: The State of the Church in North America

Here's a video from Fuller Theological Seminary in which Reggie McNeal explains the exciting change...

August 23, 2012

When Evangelicals are Missional, Their Witness to the World Gets a Hearing

Even The New York Times notices The evangelical church is finally turning the corner. For most of...

August 23, 2012

Missional: To be Called and to be Sent

A look at the Abrahamic Paradigm of "Called and Sent" In his book, The Word...

August 23, 2012

Local Churches as Missional Training Outposts

God’s Mission and Our Mission of Reconciliation In light of the mission of God (to...