Category: Missional Church

Missional People

Posted on August 22, 2009

Some friends are running a website called Missional People. It is devoted to:

“giving people ideas of what it really looks like to live as a missionary in whatever context God has placed you.  We will provide insight,  stories, and examples from people and churches who are engaging in the mission.”

Training a Missional Core Team

Posted on August 21, 2009

Here are the Stages of Growth we followed as a Missional Core Team (see separate document Stages of Organic Growth for further explanation)

  1. Meals & Mission: time spent cultivating community over shared meals, missional conversation, and being on mission together socially and evangelistically.
  2. Vision & Mission: time spent in community discussions around vision and values, while continuing to practice mission.
  3. Commitment Night: an evening in which I gave a charge, we prayed for our city, had first communion over a meal, and celebrated God’s work in our Core Team.
  4. Bible Study & Mission: spent time teaching through Luke-Acts, identifying the themes and challenges of gospel, community, mission.
  5. Strategy & Missional Community: time spent in more strategic conversation and planning to be a church in the city and for the city through what came to be called City Groups (aka Missional Communities).
  6. Low Profile Public Gatherings: our first public gatherings which included preaching and primarily built up the existing Core Team
  7. High Profile Public Gatherings: our first attractional, public gatherings in a city centre location
  8. City Groups Multiply: existing City Groups multiply through mission and leadership development

Total Church Resources

Posted on August 21, 2009

If you haven’t read Total Church, buy it today. If you’d like some more resources on Total Church, check out the following:

My Series of Posts on Total Church. – excerpts and reflections on the book from when we were in Core Team stage. Also check out Three-Strand Evangelism

Total Church study guide. – This is a good tool to use when Building Missional Core Teams for church planting, and for helping re-orient existing churches around the gospel, community, and mission.

Resurgence Resources – includes helpful teaching videos by Steve Timmis and other blog posts.

My Fall Speaking Engagements

Posted on August 20, 2009

In case you are interested, I will be speaking at a few conferences this Fall. I’m honored to speak along the other speakers.

September 15-16: Acts 29 Bootcamp

October 9-10: LEAD ’09

November 10-11: Missional Network Gathering

North American Mission Board (NAMB) we will be hosting a Regional Missional Network Gathering on November 10-11, 2009 in Kansas City. The conference will focus on the topics of Missional Church and City Networks. It will begin on Tuesday, November 10 at 1:00pm and conclude on Wednesday, November 11 at 4:30pm. The two primary presenters will be Eric Swanson and Jonathan Dodson.