lifeasmission

The word missional, as I was sure it would, is becoming increasingly popular. I am hearing of more and more mega (and non mega) churches who wish to embrace this idea of what it means to be missional. On the surface I think this is great. I am convinced that the missional [...]

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(this cross-posted from over at meremission)
I finished my last post by saying that suburban contexts pose a unique challenge to church communities in terms of their having any sort of public witness with their gatherings.  The reason for this challenge is that suburbs have various segments for housing, offices, shopping, schools, etc., and that cars [...]

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My girlfriend was telling me the other day how she had had a conversation with a couple people around this question.  For reasons of language (Norwegian) and context (country with a Lutheran State Church), the question apparently didn’t mean the same thing within their conversation as it did my ears, but it got me thinking [...]

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It wasn’t until I moved to LA to go to Fuller that I really started thinking seriously about the concept of cities and how different they are than suburbs and rural areas. It was at Fuller that I was awakened to the whole idea that while God’s action in the world began in a [...]

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