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Your Identity and Calling Are Not What You Think
Uncategorized, Calling, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, community, following jesus, Identity, imago dei, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, Vocation“Who am I and what on earth am I doing here?” “What is my identity and what is my purpose or calling?” “What is God’s will for my life?” These are just some of the many questions most of us have at some point in our...
Discipleship During Lockdown
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, Discipleship, listening, missional church, missional community, Missional Leadership, pandemic, pastor care, shepherdsThe Church has never had so much access to great online content about God, but what makes people part of your congregation is their connection with each other and with you — the way you live life with God together as people: disciplesh...
You Are a Soul
Uncategorized, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, coronavirus, covid-19, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, integration, missional discipleship, Missional-Incarnational, nephesh, pandemic, Rhythm and Rule of Life, rhythms, soul care, spiritual health, spiritual practices, spiritualityI started becoming interested in soul care and contemplative spirituality when I was in college. At the time, I was a youth pastor at a rural church, an undergrad student, a roommate, and living in a low income neighborhood. Life was bus...
Decolonizing Church Planting
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, decolonialism, distributed leadership, intercultural, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resourceWith rising gentrification, wealth disparity, and the decline of organized religion, often along racial lines, planting churches requires power analysis. This webinar will use a basic framework of decolonialism to reconstruct a vision of...
It’s Time to Re-imagine Worship and How We Gather
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, Community Formation, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, remissioning, rohadi(Note: This article was originally written before COVID-19. The ideas contained are now applicable to a time, whenever that may be, when we all can gather again.) In my previous post, I introduced my church plant Cypher Church, and discu...
The Great Pause
Uncategorized, coronavirus, covid-19, emotionally healthy practices, Growth, pandemic, reflection, self awareness, self care, solitude, soul care, spiritual practices, Spritiual PracticesLike everyone else around me, I am struggling to make sense of what the new reality facing us in the coming weeks as we return to work and a semblance of normalcy, could look like. This has not been an easy time for any of us, but in the...
Pandemic Partners Having an Impact
Uncategorized, coronavirus, covid-19, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resource, neighborhood, pandemicRev Morgan Schmidt, a Presbyterian pastor in Bend, OR, has created an innovative online group called Pandemic Partners so that people in her community can help one another in these tough times. Morgan essentially found a creative way to ...
Re-Connecting with Your Neighborhood After a Pandemic
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, Leadership, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, missional resource, Missional-Incarnational, neighborhood, pandemic, Place-based Church, Place-connectorsThere is a haunting scene at the end of the apocalyptic disaster film Deep Impact (1998). After the water recedes from mega-tsunamis caused by a comet crashing into earth, civilians wander back into the streets with trepidation, groggine...
Wishing For Not Normal: Erasing the Deep Darkness Within
Uncategorized, church planter, church planting resources, coronavirus, covid-19, discernment, emotionally healthy practices, Growth, pandemic, reflection, Resources, self awareness, self care, solitude, soul care, spiritual practices, sustainable rhythmNormal. What is normal? After all, what seems normal to some is abnormal for others. When my work takes me out of town, I try to stay with friends, family, or colleagues as often as possible. Not only is it more cost-effective, b...
