I admit it, I am one of the over 20 million people who have purchased “The Purpose Driven Life” and read it. Not only did I read it, but our church joined other churches in organizing our small groups and Sunday gatherings around its message for 40 days. Was it life changing for me? No. [...]
Archive for November, 2008
The Mission Driven Life and Vehicles to Get You There
Posted in Missional, church, faith, paradigm on November 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Futility and Fugacity or Future Hope?
Posted in Book Reviews, Missional, church, faith on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Crazy Ones
As I continue my study of missional, I often wonder if there is any real hope for the church in the West – will we see God moving and people responding and choosing to follow him more than we are now? If we just change in the right ways, will God then show [...]
Missional Evangelism
Posted in Uncategorized on November 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
This weekend I am helping out at a Conversational Evangelism Conference while I am in the midst of studying things missional and have some questions for those interested in the missional conversation. The context of my questions is the ambiguity and variability of the usage of the term missional these days. Here’s the questions:
Do missional [...]
Would Missional by Any Other Name Sound So Sweet?
Posted in Missional, church, faith, gospel, paradigm on November 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Last fall I took a hybrid-course from Leonard Sweet called, “Global Mission of the Church” at George Fox Evangelical Seminary. In the first few minutes of our face to face time, Sweet refuted the title of the class saying it should be, “Global Mission of God.” In the ensuing hours we touched on the concept [...]
Physical Therapy AKA Pain and Torture
Posted in Uncategorized on November 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
OK, I know, it’s really not torture, but physical therapy on my shoulder is not fun. I’ve had some issues with my left shoulder for a couple months now and recently it got worse and the doctor says it’s “frozen shoulder.” I’ve read nothing good about this problem and and am only distressed by this [...]
