I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the parable of the sower. Jesus said, “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It...
If you’re a practitioner wanting to understand more about the nuts and bolts of missional community life and structure, the Launching Missional Communities Field Guide by Mike Breen and Alex Absalom can point you in the right direction. Within its pages you’ll...
Missional community is happening all over the place. A story from Brian Williamson: “Last Friday, I was asked to come and share some time and encouragement with one of our missional communities. As I looked around the room here’s what I saw: Two women who are...
A story from Adam Trambley, who has begun some work in the recovery community: “One of the interesting places I stumbled across while prayerwalking around my church during some lunch hours was a drop in center for folks with mental illness. A couple months later, I...
I’m at the Missio Intensive today in Portland with Hugh Halter and Matt Smay—pictured here. In case you’re not clear on what an Intensive actually is, it’s an event designed to help you rethink your assumptions about church and move your current church in a...
Be the feet of Jesus Be the hands of Jesus Be the voice of Jesus Serving others may be the most versatile of all 12 of the areas we’re looking at in this series. Jesus said it best: “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me...
