V3 Blog
Is it Time to Cancel the Church Service?
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church service, Leadership, mission, missional, missional church, Missional Church Place-based Church Culture, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, missional ecclesiology, Missional-Incarnational, rohadiThere’s a story from American folklore that Henry Ford, after launching the Model T, declared consumers could pick any color they wanted…so long as it was black. To me this sounds like the same approach Christian worship has taken. It ...
The Planter’s Life: Ben Atkins
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, church planter resource, Church Planting, podcast, the planter's lifeWe are thrilled to feature Ben Atkins on this episode of The Planter’s Life. Ben Atkins is an innovative and compassionate Planter all the way from Canning Town, UK with Saint Matthias Canning Town. You can watch here, listen on...
On Stopping
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, missional church planting, sabbathDo you practice a regular rhythm of Sabbath? Do you “Sabbath”? What does it even mean when we use “Sabbath” as a verb? In fact, what is Sabbath? Something Important Generally speaking for many of us, when we hear the word “Sabbat...
Missional Metrics
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, church planter resource, Church Planting, Leadership, metrics, missional, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional culture, missional ecclesiology, missional metrics, Missional-IncarnationalA couple weeks ago I woke up, ate breakfast with the family, and walked my son to elementary school. From there, my 3-year old daughter and I walked to the local cafe, as we usually do. After properly caffeinating, I responded to a few e...
Brave Church
Uncategorized, church history, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, missional, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional culture, missional ecclesiology, Missional-Incarnational, Rowland SmithThe year was 250 CE and Rome found itself facing, invaded even, by a different kind of enemy. It was not an army it could simply defeat on the battlefield, but a plague that swept through parts of the empire. Most historians think the in...
Ten Favorite Books for Church Planting 2019
Uncategorized, books, church planter, church planter resource, Church Planting, church planting resources, Leadership, missional church, missional church planting, missional resource, recommended booksThe V3 Movement has been raising up and releasing men and women church planters, from across the theological spectrum, all over the country, that are focused on locally-rooted presence, tight-knit community, life-forming discipleship, an...
Unlocking Neighborhood Presence
Uncategorized, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, Leadership, missional, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional culture, missional ecclesiology, Missional-Incarnational, neighborhood, Neighborhood ChurchIn a previous post I discussed why new plants (or any church for that matter) should have neighborhood presence as a central identity piece. Easier said than done. There are challenges to make this reality including: leaders who are figu...
Invitation to Transparency: Part 2
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, church planter resource, Church Planting, church planting resources, community, Community Formation, Leadership, missional church, missional church planting, missional communityFor part one of this series click here So, what is transparency? Perhaps it’s easier to start with what it is not. Transparency is not brutal honesty or the lack of a filter. It is not living like you’re in a real-time confessional. ...
Mutual Movemental Leadership
Uncategorized, APEST, church leadership, Church Planting, church planting resources, Dan White Jr, Discipleship Missional Leadership, five-fold gifting, Leadership, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, post-christian leadershipRe-imagining New Scaffolding In planting a missional-incarnational church you will collide with the big question “How do we do leadership in this new but old way of being the church?” Re-imagining and reconstructing leadership scaffo...
