Jeff Vanderstelt 1 min read
In this training session Jeff unpacks the Gospel and what it looks like to be fluent in the Gospel. In other words, the Gospel has to become second nature if we are to engage in the mission of God effectively.
Alan Hirsch 1 min read
In this video Alan Hirsch answers the question: “How do we truly build community?”...
Verge Network 1 min read
Innovation is the implementation of missional imagination and to do mission as Jesus does it. The goal in this move is for each individual and church to "do it." The outcome of every Christ follower and church living sent lives on mission is a missional movement.
Verge Network 1 min read
Imagination is key in order for God's people to see the mission as Jesus sees it. The goal in this move is for each individual and church to "see it." Once a follower or church is able to "see it" then a missional movement is possible.
Verge Network 1 min read
Lawson and Paul talk about how God is using their Missional Community from The Austin Stone to make disciples in their current context with international students at The University of Texas at Austin.
Verge Network 1 min read
Jeff Vanderstelt and his Missional Community at Soma share their heart for wanting to see Jesus glorified in their neighborhood and all of Tacoma.
Verge Network 1 min read
Leonce Crump and his Missional Community at Renovation Church talk about the joys and challenges of planting a church in a diverse neighborhood in Atlanta.
Verge Network 1 min read
We spent several months with leading thinkers and practitioners to answer 7 of the most frequently asked questions about missional communities. Join the conversation!
Verge Network 2 min read
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Question 6: What Do Missional Communities Do?
That's a really good question. Sometimes, people are trying to make it look more intense than it is. All it really means is that you have some friends that you live fairly close to, sharing spontaneous life together. In our environment, we try to coach three aspects...
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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...
Verge Network 2 min read
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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...
Verge Network 2 min read
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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...
Verge Network 1 min read
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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...
Verge Network 3 min read
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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...
Verge Network 4 min read
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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...
Verge Network 3 min read
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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...
Verge Network 1 min read
Over the coming weeks, we will be asking some of the leading thinkers and practitioners to answer 7 of the...
Verge Network 1 min read
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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!