September 27-29th 2018, Philadelphia The Praxis Gathering is a Conference for Missional Planters and Practitioners. Last year was our third annual Praxis Gathering in Phildelphia, PA. We enjoyed the rich diversity of our presenters speaking into the practice of Loving Our Neighborhoods. It was a thick environment teeming with brilliant ideas, raw stories, hard fought wisdom and tangible practices to …
The design of a space is never neutral; it always communicates some specific value. For example, what does it say about someone’s values if they set their living room T.V. off in a corner, while all the furniture is turned towards a window looking out into the backyard? The way a room is set up communicates certain values. Physical spaces …
When I moved to California to plant a church I knew that I needed to have some kind of goal. I didn’t want that goal to be one that measured how fast we would grow numerically because I felt like that would put unhealthy pressure to grow at any cost and, potentially, hijack the vision for the church. But I …
After taking some time to use the cultural web to exegete the neighborhood within the city, the same cultural web can be helpful to discern how to be the church in your context. In Creating a Missional Culture, I mention that if we are going to have churches where the community more fully reflects the character and ministry of Christ, …