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The New Normal … Ain’t Going to Be Normal
Reggie McNeal • Good Cities
[Note: See an exclusive P.S. from Reggie at the conclusion of this article]
Waiting on the world to snap back into place on the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic promises to be
Read more…#ReimagineSUNDAYS...
One of the changes taking place across the world, is the approach to how we educate people.
Media (TV, radio, social sites, video access) has blown past the lecture-by-expert mode if the Industrial era ... for which we built sc
Read more…Designing a #ReimagineCHURCH Journey
Every congregation/ministry/group must "be transformed by the renewing of their (corporate mind-set) ...
So that they begin to pray with and make-disciples who live according to the good, totally-fulfilling, pe
Read more…The Strange Fire that May Be a Church
19 enero 2020, Iglesia Bautista de El Cielito
Buenos días. La gracia y paz del Señor sean con ustedes.
Me pidieron que hoy no infliga mi español en ustedes. Van a escaparlo por la traducción hábil de mi esposa. S
Read more…On November 29, 2019. A discussion was posted to this Web site through me https://discipleshipnetwork.ning.com/forum/topics/logically-re-imagining-the-commemoration-of-the-birth-of-christ. The topic was re-imagining the date the Universal Church Co
Read more…Christmas wasn't widely observed until after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Western Christians officially began celebrating December 25th as the birth of Jesus in 336 AD. Several Internet sources indicate, that around the year 273 A
Read more…“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
Read more…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
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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
Read more…From “In Search of the Common Good” by Jake Meador
@IVPress
https://www.ivpress.com/in-search-of-the-common-good
Read more…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,
Read more…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
Read more…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
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
| 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 |
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
Read more…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
Read more…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
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