In upstate NY there is a beautiful region for climbing called “The Gunks”. They are one of America’s premier climbing areas. It’s just minutes from New Paltz, a funky college town, and 85 miles from New York City. Climbing here is characterized by huge rock roofs that shoot over the trails, big traverses, and waterfalls peppered throughout the route. Thinking …
The V3 Movement is pleased to host this guest blog from our Praxis 2023 Partner, Seminary Now. Thank you for your support! I spent the first 20 years of my pastoral journey insisting I did not need bible college, seminary,or any formal training in theology. As far as I was concerned, I went to the seminary of hardknocks, where I …
The V3 Movement is pleased to host this guest blog from our Praxis 2023 Partner, Reliant Mission. Thank you for your support! Planting a missional church is a calling rooted in faith and vision. It’s about believing that the good news of Jesus is often experienced through presence, reaching people where they are, demonstrating God’s love, and creating a faith …
The V3 Movement is pleased to host this guest blog from our Praxis 2023 Partner, Parish Collective. Thank you for your support! Take the 5 Signs quiz from Parish Collective to gauge your level of engagement in your neighborhood. “The Parish Movement is not just about how we worship together. It’s not just about what songs we sing together. It’s …
The V3 Movement is pleased to host this guest blog from our Praxis 2023 Partner, Missio Alliance. Thank you for your support! You’re a church planter, and you care about the way the church shows up in the world. You understand that church is about so much more than what does or doesn’t happen on a Sunday, whether it’s in …
We (Eun Strawser and I) are excited to host this church planting pre-conference at Awakenings 2023 in Chicago, IL in April. Together we will look at the following shifts to help us imagine a new way to plant in our current cultural moment. Rethinking Leadership: From solo leadership to leading as a community Leadership in the church was never meant …
How have church gatherings changed as a result of the global pandemic? I am making an assumption here, of course, that your community has changed in some manner in an effort to connect to the needs of marginalized people, particularly the disabled/immunocompromised community (a post for another time). But most of us have not recovered the “old normal” entirely. Many …
The well-known idiom, “if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door” is often attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. What he actually said was, “If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will …
As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him. When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother …
When I ended my previous ministry, I took up the spiritual practice of baking bread. It wasn’t entirely new to me; I had made bread plenty of times before. This time, though, I had a strong sense that the Spirit was inviting me to experience something new as I transitioned out of old rhythms and into new ways of being …