imagining how the church can reorient around mission

"Missional means actually doing mission right where you are. Missional means adopting the posture of a missionary, learning and adapting to the culture around you while remaining biblically sound."

Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer

 I am reading a book right now entitled, Finally Comes the Poet, by
Walter Brueggemann. It’s not a new book. It was actually written in 1989, but
so far it has truly captured me. Brueggemann writes with such elegance and
fluidity that it seems like I can’t read enough of his stuff.  The book is about the daring and
important work of preaching the word of God.

A couple of days ago while Robi and I were driving to
Seattle, I read a portion of the book to her out loud.  It was a strong experience – I
literally was gushing as I read, being moved by the ideas.  In the book he talks about the need for
the poetic in preaching. When he says poetic, however, he is actually referring
to the idea of being prophetic. He relates the poet to the idea of the prophet
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These are some reflections of a middle man.  I have as many friends now who would consider themselves outside of the church as in – or outside of the Christian world view in a sense.  It is strictly 50/50.  So, I can understand and in a sense, advocate for two sets of people.

 

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Here is a talk I gave yesterday at New Community.  We were commissioning Ryan Miller and David Von for 

 church planting.  Ryan is starting Branches and David is starting Emmaus.  It is such a joy to be able to watch a dream happening before my very eyes.  

The mp3 is of the whole service (worth listening to), but my part starts about the 28:30 mark. read more

Missional Smishional, Moosinal Smooshinal

 

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Here is another awesome quote from Francis Chan… read more

I love this quote by Francis Chan.  He writes, “I don’t want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit." Forgotten God read more

Well…thanks to Glenn Beck…today, America begins turning back to God. I find that to be a phenomenally presumptuous and arrogant thing to say on the steps of the Lincoln memorial on August 28th, the anniversary of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream” speech. In today’s religionized America it doesn’t matter what “God” we turn to…as long as its the one that will serve us and defeat our enemies. read more

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