Category: Missional Church

Seattle Acts 29 Bootcamp

Posted on March 9, 2009

I’ll be at the Acts 29 Bootcamp this week to help with assessing church planters, to connect with some other pastors, and get some helpful training. I am especially looking forward to Steve Timmis’ community training. More than anything will be some away time with my wife in Seattle.

A number of my cronies will be speaking at this bootcamp. If you aren’t going, you’ll definitely want to check out some of the audio on missional communities and redemption groups.

Tim Chester on Change

Posted on March 6, 2009

“The secret of gospel change is being convinced that Jesus is the good life and the fountain of all joy.”

Read the rest here.

New Books

Posted on March 6, 2009

I got a U.K shipment today with some great titles:

  1. You Can Change, Tim Chester
  2. The Busy Christian’s Guide to Busyness, Chester
  3. Justification: God’s Plan and Paul’s Vision, N. T. Wright
  4. Clusters: Creative Mid-sized Missional Communities, Hopkins and Breen

Money and Mission

Posted on March 5, 2009

As I prepare for Sunday’s sermon on money and mission, I found several good resources and quotes:

  • “Money follows mission… focus on mission will shift the language of the conversation from “fundraising” to identity and creativity. The irony is that mission can become clearer in a crisis, and undiscovered resources emerge to fulfill that mission.” – from Rendering Unto God

  • “You Philippians did not, because you were entrusted with one city, he says, care for that city only, but you leave nothing undone to be partners of my labours, being everywhere at hand, and working with me, as if taking part in my preaching.” – Homilies on Philippians, no.1
  • But there is something uniquely American about our craving to be told what to do, at least if the number of TV shows and radio programs and books and magazines devoted to doing just that are any indication. We’re a people who like to maximize – our wealth and our connections and our potential – and in recent years the message has been delivered, ever more loudly and clearly, from more and more sources, that if we buy X or do Y or follow the example of Z, then maximum happiness will indeed be ours. – Joe Lovell, “The bottom line? Non of the financial experts know what to do either”