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Tag Archives: missional
How change Comes to the church
The title of this post comes from the title of Pat Keifert and Wes Granberg-Michaelson’s forthcoming book, with the capital C on “Comes” added by me for emphasis. The book isn’t out yet (we hope to have the first copies … Continue reading
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Tagged leading change, missional, missional leadership, missional theology
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Some implications of being startled
In my last post, I suggested that there is often a connection between the word “gospel” and being surprised. The good news is not the same old, same old, because it is truly startling. And I wondered if this might … Continue reading
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Tagged cruciformity, gospel, missional, missional theology, salvation
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Startled unto Salvation
I’ve been thinking a lot about gospel and salvation these days, and some things are falling together in ways that they haven’t before. Let me begin with the idea that the gospel is “news.” Shocking, I know. But we tend … Continue reading
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Tagged gospel, hermeneutics, missional, missional theology, salvation
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Tell a Story, Change the World
I’ve said in this space many times that information is a fairly weak instigator for change. We don’t change much, generally speaking, just because we receive new information. We tend to absorb new information into the frameworks we already have … Continue reading
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Tagged change, missional, missional church, missional leadership, missional practice, narrative
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Is your church becoming missional, or simply a more active version of itself?
We perform what we can imagine. That is, we make choices, evaluate consequences, and act in keeping with the world that we have imagined. And some of that imagination is shared, or social. We share narratives, or deep imaginative structures, … Continue reading
“Christian leadership” is not an oxymoron
Sorry for the long delay between posts. Since my last post, I got married, honeymooned in San Francisco, and took three weeks to recover from a nasty bout of bronchitis. Hopefully, I’m up and back at it now. My friend, … Continue reading
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Tagged leadership, missional, missional church, missional leadership, power, theology
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Missional living: longing for a new heaven and a new earth
Look, all you have to see is a West Texas sunset, or Mt. Hood on a clear day, or a Miguel Cabrera home run to know that creation is good. Whatever the results of “the Fall,” creation did not stop … Continue reading
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Tagged eschatology, missional, missional practice, missional theology, Romans 8
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Missional living: hospitality at work
In my last post, I suggested that being prayerfully attentive was the key to anything that passed as a missional life. I applied this first to our neighborhoods and suggested walking the neighborhood as a way to cultivate a missional … Continue reading
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Tagged Christian practice, missional, missional life, missional theology, workplace faith
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Three Smooth Stones for Ministry
Ministry is not a science, at least not the way I think about it. As my friends, Ryan and Jess Woods, put it. Ministry is about the two most unpredictable forces in the world–the Spirit of God and human beings. … Continue reading
Meaningful Christian Jargon
I have spent an extraordinary amount of energy around the word missional the past few years. I discovered the word through the GOCN while I was writing my DMin thesis. I was brought to ACU to teach in their seminary … Continue reading
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Tagged hermeneutics, jargon, language, missional, Nadia Bolz-Webber, Wittgenstein
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Dei-liberations 