Category: Missional Church

Interview w/ Steve Timmis (Total Church)

Posted on January 10, 2009

9 Marks is running an interview series with the British, insightful Steve Timmis, co-author of Total Church. Steve’s quotation of David Fairchild regarding the pastoral advantage of dialogical preaching is worth the whole interview:

Extended monologue can cause me to think about the sermon more than I think about the gospel and the people the gospel is for.  If I think of the people, I think about how I’m going to communicate the gospel to them.  If I think of the gospel, I think about how I am going to communicate the gospel to a particular people.  If I think about a sermon, I don’t much think about either of them at worst; at best I think about them as a sort of homiletical box to check.

Plant & Thrive: Acts 29 Conference

Posted on January 9, 2009

Plant & Thrive looks like it will be an immensely practical conference for guys checking out planting or already several years in. Check out the speaker line-up and topics:

Track 1 – For all potential A29 church planters

  • Mark Driscoll
  • Wayne Grudem – Gospel Centered Reformed Theology
  • Danny Akin – Preaching the Gospel
  • Scott Thomas – The Biblical Mandate on the Man
  • Andreas Kostenberger – The Effects of Planting on Family & Self
  • Mark Driscoll & Wayne Grudem – Q & A
  • Tyler Jones – Mission Rises out of Community
  • Ed Marcelle – Mission Rises out of Discipleship
  • Daniel Montgomery – Our Mission
  • Mark Driscoll

Track 2 – For planters in years 1-4

  • Jason Roberts and Chris Atwell – Coaching Introduction
  • Elliot Grudem – Leadership Development: Elders, Deacons, Volunteers
  • Mark Driscoll – Q & A
  • Jamie Munson & Nate Williams – Systems & Structures
  • TBA – Strategic Planning
  • Jamie Munson, et al. – Q & A
  • TBA – Small Groups
  • Chris Atwell – Assimilation to Membership
  • Wayne Grudem – Q & A
  • TBA – Children’s Ministry / Funding / Holistic Justice
  • Jason Roberts – Debriefing: Long Term Implementation
  • Mark Driscoll

Feb 4-5. More info here.

Hirsch vs. Stetzer on Ecclesiology

Posted on January 8, 2009

Here are a couple graphics that Ed and Alan use. They are helpful in clarifying their respective understandings of how christology, ecclesiology, and missiology relate. By the way, these guys are friends not foes, so I’m not trying to make them enemies (see Ed’s recent interview with Alan). I know you’ll appreciate that. Great discussion on the previous post.

Ed Stetzer

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Alan Hirsch

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