I have not posted for a while as I’ve been recently tending to areas in my life that I need to grow in. It’s been a time of self-examination. And in this time, I’ve realized that I have much to learn still about life in Christ and its relationship to apostolic mission. In particular, [...]
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Part of what the apostolic is to do is to help prepare the foundation for the church. Some will hear this and think it sounds esoteric, if not a bit quasi-self-important. In truth, it is neither. When we look at the book of Acts and ALL the N.T. letters, we see apostolic foundation laying at work. [...] I’ve been challenged lately in how I parent by the modeling and example of my friend, Bryce, here in Gl0be. We often spend much time together outside with our kids for homeschooling P.E. or just hanging out with our kids. And seeing him in action has helped me realize more about how I parent and how [...] (A continuation of a previous post that ponders the need to develop the apostolic theme of durability) The Church Planting Movement (CPM) conversation has been centering around the issue of discipleship/disciple-making — rightly reminding us that Jesus never told us to plant churches, but rather to make disciples of all nations FROM WHICH (when properly done and [...] So as some of you may know, I am in the throes of an independent study for a graduate school class (and seriously behind on my work). I created this eight unit course around something I naturally wanted to look into: what in the world is apostolic ministry? I’ve been on board for the case for [...] Lately, the Lord has been teaching us the foolishness in clinging to methods and strategy that worked in the past and in searching for the “silver bullet” that, when properly discovered and employed, will vanquish any foe. Here is some great perspective along those lines from a mentor of mine in seminary, Marty Schoenleber: January 02 In my last post, we painted in broad strokes a picture of a church that is missing key foundational pieces in its development. With this post, we want to start filling in some color: just what has the church been missing over the last two millennia? Here are some gaping holes we see in today’s church through [...] It’s been said among those in our organic movement: if you want good answers, you need to ask good questions. In our journey out of inherited evangelical culture and conventional pastoral ministry, there were a slew of good questions with which God had us wrestle (for a fuller set of the questions we asked, you can click here.). [...] Note well: it would be easy to conclude from this post title that I did not enjoy the last eight years at the church we planted, baylight church community. This is FAR from the truth. This post is in no way a slight to my spiritual family here. It is actually a testimony to their forbearance, [...] |
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