imagining how the church can reorient around mission

I am speaking this Sunday at a cool church in
the Tri-Cities, Washington.  It is
called the Living Room and is pastored by my son-in-law’s father, Monte
Igersoll. 

You can find their FB page HERE read more

• AND: The Gathered and Scattered
  Church – Hugh Halter and Matt Smay
• Lesslie Newbigin – Missionary Theologian – a
  Reader – Paul Weston
• Missional Church, Eerdmans 1998 – Darrell L. Guder et al.
• Mission Between Times – Rene’ Padilla
• The Forgotten Ways – Alan Hirsch

Here is a list of the recommended readings:

• A Community
  Called Atonement, Scot McKnight
• Light
  to the Nations, A: The Missional Church and the Biblical Story, Michael W.
  Goheen
• Believing in the Future – David Bosch
• Breaking
  the Missional Code, Ed Stetzer
• Celtic Way of Evangelism – George G. Hunter
• Foolishness
  to the Greeks – Lesslie Newbigin
• Generous Justice – Tim Keller
• Introducing the Missional Church – Alan Roxburgh and Scott Boren
• Journey to the Common Good – Walter Brueggemann
• Missional Spirituality: Embodying God's Love from the Inside Out – Roger Helland and Leonard Hjalmarson
• Permenant Revolution – Alan Hirsch
• Post-Christendom – Stuart Murray
• Salt, Light, and a City: Introducing Missional Ecclesiology - Graham Hill
• Transformation
  in Mission – David Bosch
• The
  Church Between Gospel and Culture – Ed. Hunsberger and Van Gelder
• The
  King Jesus Gospel, Scot McKnight
• The Open Secret (Revised Edition) – Lesslie Newbigin
• The
  Mission of God, Christopher J.H. Wright
• The
  Mission of God’s People, Christopher J.H. Wright
• The
  Missional Leader – Alan Roxburgh, Fred Romanuk, and Eddie Gibbs
• The
  Missionary Congregation, Leadership and Liminality – Roxburgh
• The Tangible Kingdom – Hugh Halter and Matt
  Smay

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I have taught a class at Whitworth University every year for
some time now called on the Missional Church. 
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I read this morning… read more

I have been in Russia for 7 days now and have found the experience
incredibly enriching.  Starting Friday Robi and I will be leading a
Marriage retreat with Christian Associates Board chair, Rita Warren and her
husband, Michael.  read more

A short prayer from my time at St. Gertude’s read more

Another lovely one from Mary Oliver – she is such a wonderful artist.

Logos (a poem of the bread and fish)  read more

Why is it so difficult to admit my brokenness…my neediness?  read more

This morning (my birthday) I was reading some poetry to my wife outside under our lovely birch tree in our front yard.  Sitting under this tree has been the launching pad for some of our most stimulating conversations.  With a cup of coffee or glass of wine, an endless line of wonderful friends have sat with us under this colossal tree over the years.  It reminds me of what Eden must have been like.   read more

This morning (my birthday) I was reading some poetry to my wife today outside under our lovely birch tree in our front yard.  Sitting under this tree have been the launching pad of some of our most stimulating conversations.  With a cup of coffee or glass of wine, an endless line of wonderful friends have sat with us under this colossal tree over the years.  It reminds me of what Eden must have been like.

Anyway, I stumbled upon this next passage, which captured my thoughts about aging and stirred in me a bit of an existential moment. read more