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The Big Red Tractor
From Francis Chan:
Excellent!
How does your community of faith compare? Are you trying to push the Big Red Tractor with your own strength, or putting its true power source to full use?
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The Missional Church video
A great simple explanation – in the spirit of Common Craft videos
Thanks to Jonathan Brink for the heads-up.
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God of this City
Love this version of God of this City by Exodus and Lifechurch.
Love the diversity!
HT Jason Kovacs
Reminds me of the challenge Scott Williams (pastor of NW OKC Campus of Lifechurch.tv) gave during #thenines :: Church Diversity Sucks…
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Hey church — come on out!
via The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus
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Alan Hirsch shares during #thenines
Enjoyed listening in on #thenines today (put on by leadnet.org). Hopefully you all didn’t mind my flood of Twitter updates.
The whole basis of the idea is 70+ leaders were asked, “What would you tell the church leaders of America in only nine minutes.”
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Nine practices of the emerging church
A couple weeks back I shared a series of posts on on what I saw as the defining characteristics of the emerging Christian movement.
And Wednesday, I found that Urban Theologian (HT @knightopia) shared nine practices of the emerging church, according to Eddie Gibbs and Ryan Bolger in their book “Remembering Our Future: Explorations in Deep [...]
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What is emergent? Missional
Read Part 2 :: What is emergent? Centered set
While there seem to be countless folks in the Church who are more than happy to avoid being labeled emergent, the exact opposite seems to be true for the term missional. More and more folks are rushing to use the term to define their ministries. Some have [...]
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God’s heart for the poor
As noted earlier, God has a huge heart and love for YOU – but he also has a huge heart for EVERYONE ELSE – including the poor, the marginalized, the hurting, the oppressed. And if we’re to be on the side of God – we should be on the side of the poor.
As a refresher, [...]
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Doing it all wrong
Shaun Groves just returned from a week+ long trip to India with a group of bloggers for Compassion International (read their thoughts here).
As part of their trip, Shaun he met with a couple different pastors who are choosing to do church outside of the norm.
Shaun writes…
This guy’s doing it all wrong.
He’s the pastor of [...]
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Does it matter?
My friend Briana sent this to me this evening relating to my message yesterday.
Had to share it here. Not exactly sure of the origin or author. If you know, please feel free to share so I can give credit.
I was hungry and you formed a humanities club to discuss my hunger.
Thank you.
I was imprisoned and [...]
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