Sermon Preparation is different in the Missional Church My favorite day of the week is Sunday. Our young church, Austin Mustard Seed, has been doing Sunday liturgy for six months. We are blessed to have a meeting space that is mostly setup so we can focus on relationships over tasks. We are new enough that we have little to no baggage, and …
Learn from Tim Catchim at Exponential!
Next week is the one and only Exponential Conference. V3’s very own Tim Catchim will be presenting throughout the event. There are four chances to learn from Tim, including: Preconference: Missional from the Ground Up Hosted by Title: Missional from the Ground Up Hosted by Missio, Forge & GCM Collective Session 2: The Permanent Revolution: how the fivefold ministries of …
[Video] Dan White Jr's Two Questions Your Church Community Should Be Asking
Are you heading to Inhabit Conference? Be sure to say hi to JR Woodward and Dan White, Jr. Hear’s a taste of what you’ll get at their talk “Subterranean: a relational rhythm for submerging into the neighborhood.” DAN WHITE – THE TWO QUESTIONS YOUR COMMUNITY SHOULD ALWAYS BE ASKING from The House Studio on Vimeo.
Organizing Principles for Selecting a Church Planting Community
Sure, everyone wants to hear from God about where or among whom He is calling them to plant, but people seem to hear Him through various lenses. In recent years, this seems to be shifting. Affinity For most of the 30+ years I have worked in church starting settings, planters have gravitated towards affinity. They look for people and places …
Meet JR Woodward and Dan White, Jr. at the Inhabit Conference
Are you headed to Inhabit Conference next week? We’d love to meet you! The conference will break down the false dichotomy between being locally rooted and globally linked. V3’s JR Woodward and Dan White, Jr. are both leading workshops at Inhabit. JR and Dan will be speaking on the topic “Subterranean: a relational rhythm for submerging into the neighborhood.” They describe …
Hirsch & Catchim's "The Permanent Revolution": A Review
An article by JR Woodward In this literary review of Alan Hirsch and Tim Catchim’s The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church, I will give my understanding of the basic thesis of the book, then share my thoughts, highlighting the parts of the book that I found helpful and want to remember. Following will be my critique, and …
Illusions in Church Planting
An illusion is an error in perception. Over time we subtly rename perception, “reality.” And it is not uncommon to believe we are living in God’s reality when we are actually steeped in personal illusion. The tragedy is that church planters are equally as susceptible to living in illusion as anyone else. I know I am. The 20th century, Serbian …
Five Environments For a Thriving Missional Community
This article is based on my book, Creating a Missional Culture. Download a free chapter here. One of the most overlooked elements to making missional disciples is recognizing how the culture of our group shapes us. It either pulls us down toward our base instincts or lifts us up to our redemptive potential. We create culture and culture in turn …
Challenging the Current Forms of Leadership
V3’s Tim Catchim teamed up with Alan Hirsch to write The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church. The book challenges the status quo of church leadership forms. Have you read the book? What do you think of their approach?