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Interview ~ #ReimagineCHURCH: Love Your (Immigrant) Neighbors

“When there is reason to fear, let’s be wise.”

What made you want to write a book about the immigrant and refugee crisis?

Kent Annan: For two reasons: the lives of people who are vulnerable are at stake, and our own lives are at stake as people who

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#ReimagineCHURCH : First “Nones” ~ Now “Dones”

From John Armstrong:

The baby boom generation inherited the benefits of the post-War prosperity and opportunity. We also inherited a Christianity that invited us into an easy commitment, a form of religion that feed our latent narcissism. The result

Started by Phil Miglioratti in #ReimagineCHURCH

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#ReimagineCHURCH ~ a Shift from Sunday Religion

We've Come to An Intersection

Some intersections provide multiple options. Others bring you to a stop and force you to make a choice. You have to choose. You have to decide which route you will take. An apostolic epoch, like the Refo

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Observations on Three Mega-Firings

Observations on Three Mega-Firings

For me, this past year has been the best of times and the worst of times.

The best? I’m a Great Commission-meets-Great Commandment guy who is radically blessed by a collaboration of nearly one thousand congregat

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Be Not Conformed To This World

From “In Search of the Common Good” by Jake Meador

@IVPress

https://www.ivpress.com/in-search-of-the-common-good

Started by Phil Miglioratti in #ReimagineCHURCH

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#ReimagineCHURCH ~ Neighborhoods Make Us Sick? {Excerpt}

This excerpt is from How Neighborhoods Make Us Sick: Restoring Health and Wellness to Our Communities by Atlanta-based authors, Breanna Lathrop and Veronica Squires.

They write:

“Being poor literally shortens your life span. When considering race,

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We Look More Like the Church BC than AD

Why did Jesus come when He did? Theories abound, but the state of the Church was likely, at least in part, behind God’s timing. Religious practices and teachings had gotten far off course, fueled by impure motives and metrics – and leading to cynic

Started by Jim Morgan in #ReimagineCHURCH

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#ReimagineChurch ~ Nine Best Practices (sadly missing from most congregations)

Nine Practices That Heal Our Broken Humanity

This book shows what it means to be the church, the new humanity in Jesus Christ, as Paul writes about in Ephesians 2:15. This is the biblical basis for our understanding of what it means to become new

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Build A Healthy Church Culture

7 STEPS TO BUILDING A HEALTHY CHURCH CULTURE

Your church culture is like a force.

Not like the (pantheistic) force you find in Star Wars.

But a force like a momentum that leads your church to do what you do and don’t do.

In a spin on Sam

Started by Phil Miglioratti in #ReimagineCHURCH

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#ReimagineCHURCH: New wine skin...same vintage wine

New wine skin...same vintage wine Mt 9; Mk 2; Lk 9

In the gospels of Matthew chapter 9, Mark chapter 2 and Luke chapter 9, Jesus made an illustrative spiritual point using a familiar first century material process of making wine. He said no one w

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Refocusing the Church

Your church won’t change its heart and mind, “take ground” or work together as effective parts of the church body unless it does this one thing – DISCIPLE.

How did we end up building “skyscrapers” that gather in but don’t disperse world-changing Chr

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Update on "Pew Warmers"

Just thought I'd post an update on our church's progress toward higher disciple participation. We are moving in a positive direction. We've been incorporating the Jesus Christ Disciplemaker model into several places in our ministry. We led works

Started by Ann H. LeFevre in #ReimagineCHURCH

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Moving from pew warmer to productive servant.

I'm looking for feedback from my fellow Discipleship Network friends on how you have encouraged, challenged and spurred others on to a more pro-active form of discipelship. So many people are content to sit in the pew and observe their faith rather

Started by Ann H. LeFevre in #ReimagineCHURCH

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7 STEPS TO BUILDING A HEALTHY CHURCH CULTURE

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