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?
Here is V3's Method That is Helping Church Planters to Grow a Movement
Ask anyone who has ever started something from scratch and built it from the ground up and they will likely tell you it was one of the most challenging things they have ever done. Church planting is no exception. It is rewarding, but quite challenging. By definition, you are breaking new ground, and this means venturing into the unknown. Most …
Meet JR Woodward and Tim Catchim at Fresh Expressions
Are you headed to Fresh Expressions this Friday and Saturday? We’d love to meet you! More and more, Christians recognize that their place in society is shifting. The story of God’s people living in captivity in Egypt has begun to feel very familiar. Fresh Expressions is an opportunity to catalyze renewal and reimagine a Church for the 21st Century. V3’s …
How to Break Free from the Numbers Leash and Cultivate Gardens
The Most Difficult Things to Count Starting from the small church of my youth, winding through my last 20 years of vocational pastoring, I have had a decent vantage point on the church growth narrative. When I was in a booming attractional church, we took pride in our voluminous of felt-needs programs. When I was in a liturgical church, there was …
The Missional-Incarnational Journey
One of the defining characteristics of missional communities is how they organize their rhythm of life around being on mission to a particular neighborhood or network of relationships. A missional community is, after all, a community with a mission. That particular mission, however, can (and should) look different for every missional community. In time, disciples, leaders and missional communities multiply. …
Missional Minimalism
In my first 10 years as a pastor I became accustomed to resources. I worshiped and served with a charitable portion of resources as unidentified supports around me. I had great worship facilities, great budgets and decently funded programs to suit any need or stage of life. I had on-hand artists to paint canvases for my sermons and quality writers …
Discipleship and the Four Spaces of Belonging
In my most recent book, I ask, “What would the church look like if everyone in the church used their God-given gifts and talents to equip the rest of the church in such a way that the entire church became more like Jesus?” For if the whole church looked and lived more like Jesus, how much more would our neighborhoods …