In the “What’s New?” department, here is a new 24/7 video streaming network from Elevation Church. Watch the short intro video. They are going to stream all things “Elevation” (preaching, worship, teaching & training) 24 hours a day. This is a little different approach than simply creating a repository of resources from the church.
This looks like a fascinating new project. Watch the short video as an introduction, and then check out what Aaron and friends are working on.
N.T. WRIGHT part 2 (by ETS Productions)
This is part 2 of a series that New Testament scholar and church leader, N.T. Wright did recently at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. (Part 1 is below.) Here Prof. Wright discusses his book, Simply Jesus.
N.T. WRIGHT part 1 (by ETS Productions)
N.T. Wright is one of the great New Testament scholars and church leaders of our era. The combination of scholarship and his ability to communicate to a popular audience is unusual. Here he is in a lecture to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago.
[I use ‘missional’] to describe the wholesale and thorough reorientation of the church around mission, a mission that includes evangelism but more: a mission that is anchored in alerting people to the rule of God through Christ and which can never be reduced to the recruitment of new attendees at our meetings; a mission that hopes in the ongoing work of God to redeem all things and set everything right in accordance with his will; a mission that by its very nature must be lived out incarnationally, in close proximity to those to whom we’ve been sent; a mission that is cross shadowed and calls its followers to the disciplines of sacrifice, service, love and grace; and a mission that delights in beauty, flavour, joy and friendship, that lifts us up and fills us with the same fullness of life we see in Jesus.
– Michael Frost, The Road to Missional: Journey to the Center of the Church. This concluding paragraph indicates why, despite the current overuse of the word “missional,” Micahel Frost will continue to use it.This looks like an important new book for those interested in exploring a Trinitarian view of mission. Here is a quick review by Len Hjalmarson, who follows the current missional reformation and missional spirituality.
Here is a great example of Gospel storytelling. It is John 1 in parabolic form—a story by New Testament scholar N.T. Wright.
(Source: youtube.com)
Dan Kimball, pastor of Vintage Church in Santa Cruz, has recently taken a new role as Professor of Missional Leadership at George Fox University. As a part of his recent research, he has been following up on his book,They Like Jesus But Not the Church, by doing interviews with students in Oregon about what they would hope to see in the church of the future. Dan’s full article will be published in the forth-coming issue of Outreach Magazine but here is a large chunk of that very interesting discussion.
Ed Stetzer’s “musings” here include links to various sections of the Manifesto, along with Ed’s commentary blogs. Good stuff—and worth reviewing from time to time.
Here is the link to the new Pew research report on global Christianity, including interactive maps and sortable data tables.
Ed Stetzer summarizes the new Pew research on global Christianity — and provides a link to the full report.
This is a meaningful Advent reflection on waiting and racial reconciliation, which include a story about Columbia alum Franklin Golden, pastor of St. John’s Presbyterian Church.
Technological development and cultural adaptation are happening rapidly. Ministries of all sorts need to be attentive!
Early this autumn, Rob Bell announced that he would be leaving Mars Hill, the church of 10,000 or so that he founded in Grandville, MI, and would be moving with his family to California to pursue new creative adventures, including a television show. This is Rob’s unedited text of his final letter to the church.
Jeff Vanderstelt of Soma Communities talks about how missional communities (mc’s) do mission. He talks about every member mission, how and why mc’s write their own covenants after choosing a people group they intend to reach together, how the church commissions them for the mission, the coaching mc’s get, and more. The covenant answers: “What would it look like for us to radically reorient our lives on a daily, weekly, monthly basis to reach those people together?”
(Source: vimeo.com)
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