Sentences with word «missional»

Milfred Minatrea indicates Van Engen is the first in Shaped By God's Heart: The Passion and Practices of Missional Churches.

I am excited about seeing the ideas of missional living in a small group format.

Second, it was to show love as a primary motivator for missional living as it is within the revealed character of God.

In missional terms, I had lost my voice.

But I am convinced that the churches that will be most effective in recapturing their life as missional communities will discover their identities at the margins.

Second, in late May, I had the privilege of leading a week of missional conversations.

As many of you know he is the pastor of Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, California and has been one of the leading voices for the emergent / missional movement.

I really think this paradigm shift could really help many churches become more missional in what they do and how they interact with others who don't agree with them doctrinally.

At a time when many churches around the country are defaulting on their current mortgage, most churches probably do not want to hear that one way to redeem their buildings for missional purposes is to double their church mortgage.

Missional engagement in such a world means embracing the consequences of today's incidents, the events to be related in tomorrow's newspaper and other chronicles.

But we don't really see the arts as missional — a way of impacting society and changing lives.

But deep theology and missional ideas are painted with words in nearly every song.

We probably need to pay the word missional extra for all the work we make it do.

About Blog Missional Women exists to help women live on mission for the glory of God.

(In the years since then, I've learned a bit more about postmodernism, and post-Christian culture, about missional church, about the contextualization of the Gospel, all of that stuff.

I think in my post starting tomorrow, I can get back on track with some of the positive ways of praying, and how churches of all types can allow prayer to lead them into missional involvement in their community.

The fact that the term missional church is now en vogue is a disappointing pointer to the fact that we, as the Church in general, have stopped being God's sent out ones.

The more I began to interact with missional moms, the more I discovered that motherhood was not a phase in one's life that you had to just tolerate and survive.

More on that later... but let's review and go back to Hoekendijk, as he will help us later to understand Newbigin, McGavran, and much of then conversation we call missional today.

I thought StoryHouse, our new missional coffee shop, was good at this, but now I realise we're still amateurs.

All of these sites have great resources as well as more links to other missional leaders, websites, and blogs.

Dear Naked — I'm starting some new missional activity for our denomination soon... I'm happy to be part of your growing tribe!

Tomorrow we will look at two other groups who might buy a church building, and then we will look at what you can do if you want to keep your building, but use it in a more missional way.

Some have expressed concern that the focus is becoming, «what missional means to me.»

Actually, Guder's missional focus for North America is one of the reasons I went into missiology instead of Church Growth... and soon found Bosch, Newbigin, Van Gelder, Van Engen, Dubose, and others as part of my Ph.D. at Southern Seminary.

I thought StoryHouse, our new missional coffee shop, was good at this, but now I realise we're... More

Churches are aware of the trend, Kinnaman says, and many have adopted a more missional mindset, especially in the last five years.

The extra money would then go toward missional work and service in the community and around the world.

As an active member of Kingdom of God since I was a kid, I have been fortunate to have been personally mentored by some great leaders of today such Reggie McNeal (a published church leader who teaches on missional leadership) and Louie Giglio whom I volunteered for at Baylor University during my college years and was sent by his group to England to do evangelism.

The project is part of the Church's renewal and reform programme which aims to build on the three goals - set by General Synod in 2010 - to address some of the deep - rooted missional challenges facing the Church of England.

As we embrace a more missional stance to our culture, we will start to see some staggering results (more on that tomorrow).

The kingdom of God needs missional entrepreneurs who will see the segments of our world that are getting overlooked and passed by and will step out in faith and courage to see that these other people also are shown the love of Jesus.

About Blog Missional Women exists to help women live on mission for the glory of God.

Third, Square 1 is about planting Missional Churches.

It is easier to just say, «Well, that's not missional» rather than to understand the deeper thinking behind much of that conversation.

Mothers are typically the most missional people in the church.»

Hiebert terms this «doing missional theology.»

It is the number one question on the minds of most missional thinkers and leaders today.

Spiritual growth, emotional growth and missional growth.

Does our enthusiasm to grow our churches lead us to overlook the benefits, beauty and unique missional potential of the small church community?

It guarantees that missional involvement will always be a top priority.

To be clear, I believe missional living is not just important, but fundamental to understanding the calling Scripture lays out for believers.