Here are the Top 10 most popular posts from the month of August: 1. 30 Simple Ways To Be Missional In Your Workplace 2. 25 Simple Ways To Be Missional In Your Neighborhood 3. This Is Discipling | VIDEO 4. Faith Of Leap | BOOK GIVEAWAY 5. Faith Of Leap: Alan Hirsch interview | VIDEO… Read More »

Francis Chan delivers this inspiring message at the Exponential: On The Verge Conference 2011. The church in the west in on the verge of either disappearing or a missional movement. A new apostolic movement will occur when every Christ follower and church gains missional “movementum.” This occurs through a process of three moves in which… Read More »

Verge recaps the Top 5 most viewed posts from April 2011.

If you’re a church planter, you’ve probably seen the stats: 15% of Gen X and 4% of Gen Y are in a church service on any given Sunday. Furthermore, less than 38% of people are even remotely open to ever checking out a church service (and that group is shrinking with each passing year). That means…

For the City Book Preview with Darrin Patrick Darrin joins Stew with the Verge Network to talk about his and Matt Carter’s upcoming book, For The City, and what we can expect at Exponential 2011: On the Verge – BOOK GIVEAWAY! This giveaway ended April 21st This giveaway was for 10 copies of Darrin Patrick… Read More »

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Question 7: What are some stories of hope and struggle you’ve encountered with Missional Communities?
Stew interviews Jo Saxton about stories of hope and struggles that are common to Missional Communities.

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Question 7: What are some stories of struggle and success that are common to Missional Communities?
First, I think we have to fight as much as we can against what we would view as success because at the end of the day…

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Question 7: What are some stories of hope and struggle that are common to Missional Community?
The biggest struggle for us has been the whole process of helping our people completely rethink church. We’ve been on that for probably…

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Question 6: What do Missional Communities do?
Missional communities will vary across contexts, but they must be rooted in gospel; identity first, then methods and theory. What we’ve found is that if Christians love the gospel, they’ll be willing to do incredible things for the sake of making Jesus known to those around them. At The Austin Stone…

TOP 5 ARTICLES OF MARCH These are the five most viewed articles from the last month 1. JR Woodward: How to Train Leaders Developing and training leaders for missional communities begins with cultivating a discipleship ethos. We need to look at discipleship holistically, beginning with those who have yet to self-identify as Christians, and then… Read More »

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Question 6: What Do Missional Communities Do?
That’s a really good question. Sometimes, people are trying to make it look more intense than it is. All it really means is that you have some friends that you live fairly close to, sharing spontaneous life together. In our environment, we try to coach three aspects…

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Question 6: What do Missional Communities do?
If you look at what is happening in the church in the West, in terms of cultural proximity, best estimates say that we are within cultural proximity to 40 percent of the population. In other words…

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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
The way we’ve come at this was, first, through missional communities in India. We’ve been a part of an indigenous church-planting movement there for about 10 years, and it’s not the typical approach…

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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
In training leaders of missional communities our approach is to go easy on the leader-speak while concentrating on the “follower”-posture of being a good news or, gospel person. We want to help potential leaders carve their doing out of their being. This eliminates undo pressure and distraction on…

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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
The first line of training is to actually model the behavior. So, within our church here and, what we help other churches do is to identify some existing leaders you have in your church that tend to…

Jason Dukes’ Live Sent book giveaway winners announced!

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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
The single biggest theme in training is apprenticing so that people do it, and then they learn from it. In some cases, they’re actually assigned coaches who are very serious and…

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Question 5: How do you train missional community leaders?
We’ve changed how we’re training and discipling our leaders. We’ve taught them, and we’re teaching them, to be self-feeders versus consumers only. We’re teaching them how to be self-feeders versus consumers because today in most churches, if you’re a typical American Christian…