Time is Running Out to Get the Best Price for The Praxis Gathering!

Prices go up for The Praxis Gathering at midnight on July 1! We’ve designed this unique gathering for church planters and missional practitioners to learn directly from others like them. Here’s what our very own JR Woodward had to say about it over at the Missio Alliance blog. Reasons I Would Attend The Praxis Gathering You will not only hear from, but …

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Stop Doing Church Better

Around the world, in churches big and small, ministry leaders are challenged by the growing reality that their churches are losing influence in their communities and losing the interest of their congregants. Over coffee or around conference tables these leaders are asking questions like – What are we missing? Who are we missing? What needs to change? How can we …

Meet Praxis Gathering Speaker David Fitch–Pastor, Professor, Missional Coach

There are a lot of events for Church Planters these days. The Praxis Gathering stands out by creating space to interact with fellow practitioners. Each presenter is currently at work in grounded missional practice in different contexts throughout North America. David Fitch is one of the 27 practitioner presenters you’ll get to spend quality time with at The Praxis Gathering. He is the founding pastor of Life …

Grudem and Newbigin Chat About Election

The following excerpt comes from JR Woodward’s new eBook A Missional View of Election: How a Robust View of Election Leads to a Holistic Gospel and Meaningful Missional Engagement. Download the Entire eBook Here!   Grudem holds to the historical Calvinist view of unconditional election. It is unconditional election because “it is not conditioned upon anything that God sees in …

A Historical View of the Missional Church

As one who just a few years ago wrote a book entitled, Creating a Missional Culture, I think it is important for us to understand an overview of the history of what is called the “Missional Church.” Craig Van Gelder and Dwight J. Zscheile in their book, Missional Church in Perspective, published recently in the last couple years, are just …

Beau Crosetto: Beyond the Discomfort of Inviting Seekers to Church

The ever-passionate Beau Crosetto joins us here at The V3 Movement once again! This time he shares some practical ways of getting past the discomfort we may sometimes feel when inviting the unchurched to church! Three minutes and four seconds from now you’ll see why Beau is the apt author of the book, Beyond Awkward! As you heard in the video, contact Beau with your questions–he loves answering …

Yes, It's Ok to Be Christian and Model Success

I don’t know about you but I am sick and tired of everyone telling me their 5, 10 or even 50 tips for success, aka fame and fortune. As Christians I think that our view of success should be totally different from that of the secular world’s, yet often we buy into the same values. And as we plant churches …

Three Important Ingredients that Produce a Thankful Community

A careful reading of the scriptural story reveals that gratitude is an essential virtue that defines the people of God. Gratitude is written all over the Psalms, for instance, as well as interwoven into the Apostle Paul’s letters. Although many of our churches celebrate the Eucharist on a weekly basis – a celebration of gratitude for the gift of Christ …

The Dwelling, Dining & Doing of Missional Community

In Luke Ten’s paradigmatic text followers of Jesus are instructed to “Remain in the same house…” The work of the church is not a “bait and hook” strategy, a onetime service project, short term mission or volunteer opportunity in a space. We’re being sent to a place, to become part of the very fabric of the neighbourhood; to take up …