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Multiplying Disciples Over Spectators Immersion
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, Community Formation, Discipleship, discipleship pathway, Great Commission, immersion, missional church, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, Missional Leadership, missional resourceA 5-week Immersion on Constructing a Pathway that Multiplies Disciples Over Spectators w/ Eun Strawser. About this Immersion Are you a Disciple or a Spectator? Are you a Follower of Jesus or a mere Fan? Two of the biggest questions among...
Litany of Healing
Uncategorized, coronavirus, covid-19, Healing, pandemic, physical health, prayer, spiritual healthI wrote this litany of healing several years ago. However, this year I have adapted it to be more directly applicable to the time of COVID and have included contemplative actions that encourage us to reflect on the healing power of God i...
Glory
Uncategorized, Calling, church planter, Church Planting, glory, Identity, imago dei, missional church planting, missional community, missional ecclesiology, Missional Leadership, missional theology, Neighborhood Church, purpose, VocationGlory. It’s a word in the Christian tradition that most of us, if we’re honest with ourselves, skip right over. We sort of have a framework for what it means to “give glory to God,” which is akin to praise, honor, and worth, bu...
You Are a Soul: Crafting a Rhythm of Life
Uncategorized, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, emotional health, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, integrated life, integration, interior life, intimacy, mental health, mindfulness, Missional-Incarnational, physical health, relational health, rest, Rhythm and Rule of Life, rhythms, sacred, seasons, self awareness, soul care, spiritual direction, spiritual health, spiritual personalities, spiritual practices, spirituality, vocational healthI started getting serious about soul care when things in my life started to change. Living in a new city, getting married, and having a child within 3 years is a lot of change in a short period of time! And over the next few years, not o...
Dawn Settlement: A Vision of Church as a Business Ecosystem
Uncategorized, bivocational, business, church leadership, church plant funding, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, covocational, funding, learning cohorts, marketplace church, marketplace mission, marketplace planting, missional church, missional church planting, Missional Leadership, racial justice, VocationI was sitting in a “yoga café” on a cold January morning in Ferguson, Missouri with two young men. One was Taylor McCall, whom I’m writing this book with, and another was Jonathan Tremaine Thomas. If the name Ferguson didn’t initially j...
Discerning Your Way Through 2021
Uncategorized, discernment, gratitude, listening, pandemic, reflection, rhythms, sabbath, spiritual health, spiritual practicesHow seriously will you follow Christ in 2021? 2020 is over and most of us are thinking about what we want to focus our own lives and those of our congregations in the coming year. It’s hard because looking ahead is almost as uncertain ...
Structuring for Movement Immersion
Uncategorized, church leadership, church planter, Church Planting, church planting resources, Community Formation, Discipleship, Four Spaces of Belonging, immersion, Intimate Space, jr woodward, missional church planting, missional community, missional discipleship, missional ecclesiology, Missional Leadership, missional movement, Personal Space, Public Space, Social SpaceA 6-week Immersion in How Jesus Used the 4 Spaces of Belonging to Make & Multiply Disciples w/ JR Woodward & Eun Strawser About this Immersion Do you know if the life of your church helps to grow CONSUMERS or DISCIPLES? Have current chur...
You Are a Soul: Vocational Health
Uncategorized, burnout, church planter, church planter resource, contemplative, emotionally healthy practices, holistic health, Identity, integrated life, integration, interior life, Missional-Incarnational, Rhythm and Rule of Life, sacred, self awareness, self care, soul care, spiritual health, spiritual practices, stress, Vocation, vocational health, work, workaholicPaul Tournier was a Swiss physician and is widely regarded as the most prominent Christian physician of the 20th century. He published over 20 books during his career and was a prominent and captivating public speaker. But what made Tour...
31 Days of Delight
Uncategorized, delight, gratitude, holistic health, prayer, reflection, Resources, rhythms, solitude, spiritual health, spiritual practices, spirituality, worshipWe are invited to “delight yourself in the Lord” (Ps. 37:4a), but I have noticed that many Christians haven’t yet experienced God as actually “delightful.” The most enjoyable part of my entire life has been to discover new dept...
