One of the major challenges of leading a church is kicking your people out of it. If they are spending all of their time within the church and with other Christians, they’re not out there engaging culture and making disciples. Engaging culture simply means living...
By guest blogger Gary Reinecke, www.infocusnet.org Part 1 of a 3-part series on liturgical churches For the last 20+ years I’ve been working more frequently with liturgical churches. By liturgical, I mean those churches that are trying to incorporate the...
One highlight I remember from my time as a foster parent was a particular conversation– brief but meaningful. Heather (not her real name, and not pictured here) was a 14-year-old girl from the inner city and had been with us for less than a year. One evening we...
Many years ago, Janet and I were foster parents for to a 14-year-old girl from the inner city. At that point, she had spent more time in foster care than she had with her mother. I felt like Janet and I were giving and giving and giving… and not getting...
Over this past week, I’ve introduced you to the latest resource developed by myself and Dave DeVries, the Cultivating Missional Movements implementation guide. One of the things I particularly like about this guide is that it begins with numerous...
Note: this is the fourth entry in a series on the Cultivating Missional Movements implementation guide. God is not done with you yet. The last of the four stages in cultivating a missional movement is called “keep growing” because we never truly arrive. Using...
