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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
The way we've come at this was, first, through missional communities in India. We've been a part of an indigenous church-planting movement there for about 10 years, and it's not the typical approach...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
In training leaders of missional communities our approach is to go easy on the leader-speak while concentrating on the “followerâ€-posture of being a good news or, gospel person. We want to help potential leaders carve their doing out of their being. This eliminates undo pressure and distraction on...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
The first line of training is to actually model the behavior. So, within our church here and, what we help other churches do is to identify some existing leaders you have in your church that tend to...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
The single biggest theme in training is apprenticing so that people do it, and then they learn from it. In some cases, they're actually assigned coaches who are very serious and...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
We've changed how we're training and discipling our leaders. We've taught them, and we're teaching them, to be self-feeders versus consumers only. We're teaching them how to be self-feeders versus consumers because today in most churches, if you're a typical American Christian...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
I think this is a huge and really, really important question right now. First, I think we have to understand that part of being missional is thinking movemental. If we miss that, we’ll be on mission but we won't...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
Start with a commitment to consistently live the ways of Jesus together while you converse around four bottom-line questions for the purpose of drawing some...
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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
Developing and training leaders for missional communities begins with cultivating a discipleship ethos. We need to look at discipleship holistically, beginning with those who have yet to self-identify as Christians, and then all the way across the continuum...
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Over the coming weeks, we will be asking some of the leading thinkers and practitioners to answer 7 of the...
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Question 4: How do you transition your small group to missional community?
Hugh Halter answers our question and looks at calling people to mission from the start. Listen to the interview and join the conversation!
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Question 4: How do you transition your small group to missional community?
Dave Ferguson explains how his church took on the daunting task of changing more than the name of their groups.
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Question 4: How do you transition your small group to Missional Community?
Matt Smay joins us for Question 4, and discusses discipleship in the context of community. Join the conversation!
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Over the coming weeks, we will be asking some of the leading thinkers and practitioners to answer 7 of the...
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Question 3: How do you transition your group to be more missional?
Hugh Halter answers our question and looks at tithing your people rather than taking everyone with you.
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Stew sits down with Dave Ferguson to discuss the challenges of transitioning his church to be more missional. Dave explores everything from story telling and hero making to identity and scorecards.
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We asked some of the leading thinkers and practitioners to answer 7 of the most frequently asked questions about missional...
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Matt Carter answers the question: What's the Difference between a Missional Community and a Bible Study? This is the second question of our 7 Questions Series leading up to the Exponential Conference. Hear what Matt has to say about challenging our people and releasing them to go on mission.
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JR Woodward answers Question 2: How is a Missional Community different from a traditional bible study?
What do you think about JR's definition? Does it leave you with any additional questions? Join the conversation...
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Listen in as Stew interviews Hugh Halter on Question 2 of the 7 Questions Series: How is a Missional Community different from a traditional Bible Study? Hugh will also be joining us for future questions in the series, so stay tuned!