lifeasmission

Quote from Christianity Today article, “A Deeper Relevance“…
It is precisely the point of the liturgy to take people out of their worlds and usher them into a strange, new world—to show them that, despite appearances, the last thing in the world they need is more of the world out of which they’ve come. The world [...]

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I have been sitting on this post for a while, but thought it related enough to the previous one to go ahead and throw it out there.
Recently, some friends here in Memphis have been discussing the possibility of moving towards engaging in a lifestyle of intentional community.  This is an unfamiliar topic to most, so [...]

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Update: Just after I posted this, I happened to come across a few relevant posts on this subject.  Be sure to check out David Fitch’s - “The Middle In: The Unique Missional Opportunity,” and Joe Thorn’s, “I Love the Suburbs” on a brand new blog about the gospel in the suburban context, SubText.
I hear people [...]

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This blog post is part of a SynchroBlog - below you will see the names of about 50 folks who are all posting today on the question, “What is Missional?” This is an effort launched by Rick Meigs to try and help people get a handle on where others are coming from when they [...]

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Besides being a gratuitous reference to Dupree’s Self-Help spiel in “You, Me and Dupree,” it’s the best title I could come up with for a post full of randomness and fun linkages. You’ve been warned, no coherency is to be found here!
Listen to this song, it’s awesome.

I hurt my knee last week and it is [...]

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I turned 29 this past Sunday. I had the opportunity to visit my family in California right at the end of February and got to celebrate with them. Then, this past week my brother Alex came in from NYC to see me, or maybe it had something to do with his girlfriend down [...]

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I got to spend this past weekend in Chicago.  I was there for a few reasons.  I got to visit my cousin Gwen and her fiance Rob - here’s us in the Bean at Millennium park.
(more Chicago pics here)
I was attending a mini-seminar on “Seeding Missional Communities” with David Fitch and others at Life [...]

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I think the way we speak about Scripture, justice, church and salvation, and the way we practice preaching, community and sanctification as communities has everything to do with the way the Spirit shapes us as people.
David Fitch said that on a blog post I read the other day.  I felt compelled to pass it on [...]

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My friend Todd Hiestand recently posted, A Holy (Suburban) Discontent.  It is partly a review of Tim Keel’s, Intuitive Leadership, and partly a reflection on the trappings of the suburban life style - something I have been feeling all too painfully since moving back from LA.

One of the most ironic parts of the post [...]

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Back in October I posted on the REVEAL project that Willowcreek has been working on.  Part of the project involved a humble repentance of much that they realize has been wrong with their ministry philosophy.  David Fitch, who wrote, The Great Giveaway: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer [...]

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