Shifting Leadership So Everyone Plays
A look at Missional Communities, MicroChurch, Home Church, Dinner Church
In the past there was a need to make a theological, theoretical and practical case to move from attractional church, to missional church. For many this case has been made successfully and so today we can celebrate the mosaic of missional expressions of the church, be it the house church, microchurch, missional communities, dinner church, disciple making movements (DMM) and other fresh expressions of the church.
With such a rich array of offerings, a common question we hear is what kind of church should I be planting? Is there a helpful framework to consider with inherit freedom within that framework? How does our growing understanding of discipleship, worship, community, the neighborhood, and mission speak into this framework.
Join us for a webinar where we seek to appreciate what God is doing as well as developing a way to assess our current landscape.
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Jessie Cruickshank is an ordained Foursquare minister and nationally recognized expert in the fields of discipleship and neuroeducation. She has spent over two decades applying neuroscience research to spiritual formation, ministry training, and organization development. She is respected globally as a missiological thought-leader and neuro-ecclesiologist.
Jessie serves the body of Christ as a church and denominational consultant. She is the Founder of Who-ology, which seeks to equip all people to be disciplemakers. She is the Co-Founder of 5Q, which focuses on training teams around Ephesians 4, and a founding member of the Movement Leader’s Collective Jessie holds a Master’s from Harvard in Mind, Brain, and Education. She is a published academic, author, and serves on multiple boards internationally.
She currently lives in Colorado, enjoying the rivers with her family.
You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @yourbrainbyjess
Websites are WHOology and yourbrainbyjess
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JR Woodward has been passionately planting churches on the East and West Coast that value tight-knit community, life-forming discipleship, locally-rooted presence and boundary-crossing mission for over 25 years. He received his PhD from the University of Manchester (UK).
He is the author of Creating a Missional Culture (IVP, 2012) and co-author of The Church as Movement (IVP, 2016). He is working on his next book entitled The Scandal of Leadership, based on his Ph.D. research, which seeks to give a deeper diagnosis to the problem of domineering leadership in the church.
He co-founded the Missio Alliance and currently serves as the National Director for the V3 Church Planting Movement. He is the co-founder of the Praxis Gathering and writes for numerous websites and journals. He holds a Masters of Arts in Global Leadership from Fuller Theological Seminary. He loves to surf, travel, read, skateboard and new people. He enjoys photography and film and tries to attend the Sundance Film Festival whenever he can.
Learn the 8 core competencies of missional church planting
Today's leaders have been trained to draw a crowd and preach a good sermon, but few have been equipped for the future the church is facing. Many are starving for wisdom, guidance and grounded tools on how to cultivate new types of church bodies. When we explore doing this together within a learning cohort, it is a much richer experience than going at it alone.