Inspired by Steve McCoy’s series, I’d like to know what your top 5 books on ecclesiology are. I know this is a broad topic, but just feel free to choose the 5 most influential books on the church that you have read.
Category: Missional Church
Tim Chester: Narrative Statement of Faith
Tim Chester and Steve Timmis have developed a new narrative statement of faith for the Crowded House. This is something I have been working on for Austin City Life. The Crowded House offers a good one.
Simple and Missional are not Church Models
Loved this from Ed Stetzer’s new article, “Simply Missional”:
There are so many unaddressed issues in our books (intentionally so) that prevent “missional” and “simple” from being comprehensive church models…
All types of churches should be simply missional. What we are advocating is for church leaders to distill their ideology of what church is to the irreducible minimum that defines a church as God’s gathered people, sent to a particular community as His redemptive gift to that community.
We need all types of missional churches–big, small, traditional, contemporary, with country music (did we say that?), hip-hop, some with guitars, some with organs. We need churches in homes and churches in well-marked buildings.
The container is not the issue. The issue is not staying contained.
Austin Stone Building Project
Austin Stone Commuity Church has a killer building project going on.