There are few things which set the blood pumping as much as watching a team make a heroic charge to victory. Whether it's an underdog basketball team surging to an upset or a football team pushing down the field in the last two minutes of a game, such an effort is quite a thing to …
Go Global
Even though our global mission gathering is concluded, we will continue those themes with three more weeks of messages about global mission with our "Go Global" series. When we read the Bible, we find that God is a global God. In the Psalms we hear these words: “May the peoples praise You, God; may all …
10 Practices of a Missional Jesus (via Root 48)
My friend, Brian Hofmeister, recently posted this list of Jesus' missional practices on his blog, Root 48. He drew the list from Ed Stetzer and Thom Rainer's book, Transformational Church: Creating a New Scorecard for Congregations. With all the talk of what it means to be missional, I found Brian's list from the book to …
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Reggie McNeal on Missional Church (#Exponential 2010)
Reggie McNeal is the Missional Leadership Specialist for Leadership Network of Dallas, TX. He is the other of several books; his latest is Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church. Here are my notes from Reggie's plenary session. It was hard to take notes on this session simply because Reggie was uniquely all over …
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What I Learned from ‘Leaving Church’ (pt 3)
What if the church was ‘more like a way station than a destination’? When I first became a Christian, I read an article by J. I. Packer that introduced me to the idea of the church as a hospital. The gist of Packer’s thought, as I recall, was that church is a community where we …
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Matthew Erickson 