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My other job at Gordon College has been busy lately, so I haven’t had time to blog with Advent coming up, so I thought I would repost Fitch’s article since it was quite thought provoking. What do you think about his post? From Why Missional Leaders Need To Get Over White Man’s Angst: Young white ...
Why Plant Churches? – Towards a Missional Ecclesiology
This is a series on church planting in the city. While I am no expert, I hope this series will ask the hard questions about consumerism vs. discipleship, money, contextualized mission, race and the future of American cities. Every Monday a new topic will begin with further posts on that topic posted throughout the week. You ...
The Boston Shuffle
This is a series on church planting in the city. While I am no expert, I hope this series will ask the hard questions about consumerism vs. discipleship, money, contextualized mission, race and the future of American cities. Every Monday a new topic will begin with further posts on that topic posted throughout the week. You ...
Consumerism, Competition and Celebrities
This is a series on church planting in the city. While I am no expert, I hope this series will ask the hard questions about consumerism vs. discipleship, money, contextualized mission, race and the future of American cities. Every Monday a new topic will begin with further posts on that topic posted throughout the week. You ...
Sex in the City: Do We Still Need Urban Church Plants?
This is the beginning of a series on church planting in the city. While I am no expert, I hope this series will ask the hard questions about consumerism vs. discipleship, money, contextualized mission, race and the future of American cities. Every Monday a new topic will begin with further posts on that topic posted throughout ...
Marking New Friends Part 2: Mike Breen
On Monday I wrote about the importance of listening and learning from other church planting movements and how hard it can be to be aware of innovative and effective ministry outside of our networks. I want to continue by introducing you all to Mike Breen. Mike is considered by many to be one of the ...
Making New Friends Part 1: Let Me Introduce You to Trinity Grace
There is a lot of good work going on in church planting these days and some especially good work happening in urban centers. However, those of us who are in the trenches don’t often have enough time to look and see what exciting and innovative things are going on around us. This is especially true ...
Out of the Great Silence
It has been 176 days since I last blogged. 176. That is 48% of a year. And it’s not only my blogging that has been silent, but Facebook and Twitter too. My wife actually asked me if I even checked Facebook anymore (the answer is yes…if you are wondering). So why the silence you may ...
Why We Must Reach Our Cities With The Gospel
What is God’s Global Urban Mission? from Redeemer City to City on Vimeo.
Epic Christianity: The Vigil
Epic. Is that word still in vogue? I remember a few years back when everything was epic…that song, that band, that t-shirt, that cup of coffee: EPIC. While cups of coffee could indeed be epic, most of the times we use the word epic to describe something larger-than-life. Something dramatic and exciting. Something that when ...
