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Church Coaching Leadership Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

March 5, 2019

Proactive Leadership Development for Multiplication

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. How do you get ahead of growth? How do you get new leaders ready in order to multiply your missional communities?…

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Church Foundations Gospel Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

February 21, 2019

What Surprised You in Your Transition

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. Coming from Soma Tacoma to Doxa, you had a lot of experience as a leader in a missional community. What was…

by Brad Watson 0

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Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Mission Missional Community Resources

February 14, 2019

Where Do I Go from Here?

Your missional community walked through the Field Guide laying the foundation for being the church and you then made a covenant filled with practical next steps to grow up into faithfulness and obedience . . . but what’s next? …

by Duke Revard 0

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Church Coaching Foundations Leadership Pastoring Resources

February 12, 2019

The Orientation of a Strong Team

Read part one, two and three of this series. Once you have understood yourself and your leaders, assessed your church's seasonal needs, and have hired the right complimentary team members, you are ready to establish the new team in strength. Beginnings matter.…

by Todd Engstrom 0

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Church Coaching Gospel Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

February 7, 2019

Moving Toward Mission without Division

This is an excerpt from a live Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. How do you continue to move your church into the missional mindset when thirty percent of your church doesn’t want to…

by Duke Revard 0

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Coaching Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Pastoring

February 5, 2019

Finding the Right People

Read part one and two of this series. Once you have established the giftedness of the first leader or first few leaders, begin to assess what's missing. Do you have a strong teacher and shepherd, but no evangelist? Do…

by Amy Lathrop 0

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Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring Resources Transitioning

January 31, 2019

Get Started – Moving from Sunday to Everyday

Where do you begin when transitioning your church from Sunday to everyday? What small shifts are essential? Has anyone tried to move their churches from attractional or traditional models of discipleship toward missional communities? What are their stories? What did…

by Duke Revard 0

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Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring

January 29, 2019

Building a Strong Team

Read part one of this series here. Leaders with a shared definition of team leadership are now prepared to build a strong team. Strong teams must account for the following. . . Self-awareness The strongest teams are not pre-existent. There…

by Paul Whaley 0

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Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Holy Spirit Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

January 24, 2019

How Transitioning Impacts Sunday Morning

This is an excerpt from a Question + Response session in our newly launched Missional Church Transition Starter. Question: As you transition towards missional groups, how has that affected what you do on Sunday morning? Ah, that's a great question.…

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Church Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring

January 22, 2019

Redefining Team Leadership

Most established churches in North America speak of the value of team leadership, yet the outworking, from church to church, varies widely. In one church, “team leadership” is what Jim Collins has aptly termed “a-genius-with-a-thousand-helpers.” Here team leadership means…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Church Discipleship Gospel Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

January 14, 2019

Why Missional Community Pilot Groups?

This is an excerpt from our newly released, Pilot Group Guide. This resource is available through the Missional Church Transition Starter. If you are a church of missional communities that is growing numerically through Sunday attendance or…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

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Church Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Gospel Identity Missional Community

December 13, 2018

Better than Christmas

At heart, I’m a nostalgic sentimentalist. Growing up, It’s a Wonderful Life was not only my favorite Christmas movie but my favorite movie in general. Seriously. Almost any holiday song by Nat King Cole or Bing Crosby still fills…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

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Discipleship Gospel Gospel Shepherding Identity Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Spiritual Growth

December 4, 2018

We Need “Good Shepherd” Theology

During our family meal last week, my five-year-old son Caleb perched attentively on the arm of the padded chair in which I sat––my Bible sprawled open on the coffee table in front of us. “What does it mean for…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Gospel Shepherding Pastoring

November 16, 2018

Give Them Jesus

The apostle Paul, in his letter to the church in Ephesus, states: “And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body…

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Church Current Events Domains of Society Gospel Identity Missionary

November 13, 2018

Reconstructing Our True Identity

This is part two of this two-part series on deconstructed Christianity. If you haven’t read the first piece on the roots and ramifications of deconstruction, go back and do that first. The True Story Could it be that the…

by Charlie Meo 0

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Church Current Events Domains of Society Gospel Identity Pastoring

November 8, 2018

Hope for Deconstructed Christians

Our hope is that through embracing the Bible as the True Story, followers of Jesus are given three new identities that reconstruct a flourishing faith. In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed pipe bombs sent to prominent…

by James Grout 0

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Church Everyday Rhythms Foundations Mission Missional Community Youth & Teens

November 6, 2018

From One Generation to the Next

A Shaky Foundation Several years into my career as a youth pastor I had a crisis of purpose. I loved what I was doing and believed developing people and programs to support teenagers in their faith journey was one…

by Brad Watson 0

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Bible & Theology Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Pastoring Spiritual Growth

October 25, 2018

Words Lived Out

I broke down last night. Hunched over our kitchen sink and weeping, my wife told me it wasn’t silly to grieve a person I never personally met. On Monday one of my heroes had died. As a sixteen-year-old preacher,…

by Nathan Cedarland 0

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Bible & Theology Church Discipleship Foundations Leadership

October 18, 2018

Speaking with Caution

I love the Church of Jesus, and I have no desire to criticize her or stir up strife between my brothers and sisters. In my first few years of church planting, I certainly lacked an awareness of how critical…

by Charlie Meo 0

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Community Current Events Discipleship Domains of Society Gospel Gospel Shepherding Pastoring

October 4, 2018

The Disciple and Trauma

As Americans watch the unfolding drama of the Supreme Court hearings, you can almost hear the nation collectively sigh in frustration, sadness, and disbelief. In many ways, these hearings are a culmination of many cultural currents: partisan politics, Trump…

by Charlie Meo 0

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Church Current Events Discipleship Gospel Identity Missional Community

September 19, 2018

Embodying a Justice-Saturated Gospel

This is the last part of this three-part series on the intersection of social justice and the gospel. If you have missed the last two posts, please go back and read part one and part two to give context…

by Charlie Meo 0

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Church Current Events Domains of Society Foundations Gospel Identity

September 18, 2018

How the True Story Reforms our Conversation

In part two of this three-part series we will explore how the Story of the Bible reforms our previously mentioned cultural lenses and the American church’s historical context. True Story N.T. Wright says, “The Whole Point of Christianity…

by James Grout 0

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Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Identity Mission Pastoring Youth & Teens

September 13, 2018

Teenagers Are Not The Future of The Church

If the kingdom of heaven belongs to children and adolescents, then the church must believe and behave as if their presence matters. Regrettable Words When I was in full-time youth ministry I felt part of my job was to…

by Amy Lathrop 0

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Church Mission Missionary Multiplication Pastoring

August 30, 2018

Both/And

This is a guest post by Chad Davis. Chad serves as Pastor of The Venue Church in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. The Venue Church is a diverse body of believers seeking to cultivate followers of Christ in Gospel-Centered Communities. He is…

by Tim Parlier 0

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Everyday Rhythms Gospel Leadership Mission Missionary Multiplication Youth & Teens

August 23, 2018

Saturating our College Campuses

Saturate's vision is to see a gospel saturation movement happen in North America and beyond. We want to partner with God, like-minded churches, organizations, and individuals as He brings about the vision of seeing every man, woman, and child…

by Ryan LaTour 0

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Church Gospel Identity Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

August 21, 2018

What Really Counts?

When your focus is activity, you can get people to do good things. But what happens when they are done doing those things? Our experience has been that they’ll come back for instructions on what to do next. In this…

by Donald Zimmerman 0

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Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Leadership Pastoring

August 16, 2018

Everyday Endings

If we are are a sent people, (which we are!), and we have been united with Christ (which we have!), then we undoubtedly can live as His sent people to bring the good news to those around us. A…

by Ryan LaTour 0

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Church Gospel Identity Leadership Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

August 9, 2018

He is Well Pleased with Us

Read Part One of this series here. I was sitting across the table from a sister in Christ, processing how life was going and how she was doing. During the course of our conversation, she shared a number of areas…

by Ben Connelly 0

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Church Church Planting Mission Multiplication Pastoring

July 31, 2018

Leaving an Enduring Legacy

A Sending Church By all accounts, the Church at Antioch described in the Bible was a “good" church, in a hard but rich mission field. The capital of Syria and a major Roman military and trade city by the A.D.…

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Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Mission Pastoring

July 26, 2018

It Starts with the Life of the Preacher

This post is part of a teaching series on Catalyzing Mission through Preaching. Read part one, part two, part three, part four and part five. You Must Be on Mission The only way to preach missionally is to have relationships with friends and neighbors who do not…

by Ryan LaTour 0

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Church Foundations Gospel Identity Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

July 19, 2018

Transitioning Church Culture

Our journey towards transitioning our church culture from activity to identity began over six years ago. Another pastor and I, both on staff at the same church, were wrestling through some troubling trends we each saw as we sought…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Church Discipleship Leadership Mission Missionary Pastoring Transitioning

July 17, 2018

Changing Your Preparation

This post is part of a teaching series on Catalyzing Mission through Preaching. Read part one, part two, part three, and part four. Preaching to catalyze mission requires the preaching to be thinking about the mission of God, the particular nature of mission in their church,…

by David Achata 0

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Discipleship Foundations Gospel Holy Spirit Identity Leadership Pastoring

July 12, 2018

Uniquely Positioned

“Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion… to his summons and service.” —Os Guinness, The Call In…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Church Gospel Leadership Mission Missionary Pastoring Transitioning

July 10, 2018

Preaching to Equip People for the Mission

This post is part of a teaching series on Catalyzing Mission through Preaching. Read part one, part two and part three. When you preach to catalyze your congregation toward missional effectiveness, you are modeling what it looks like to speak the gospel to neighbors, coworkers, and…

by David Achata 2

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Discipleship Gospel Identity Leadership Mission Pastoring Spiritual Growth

July 5, 2018

God’s Calling, Man’s Driving

If you’re a leader reading this, be encouraged: your mission is to teach people to be content with waiting on the Lord. “For consider your calling, brothers; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Church Gospel Leadership Mission Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

July 3, 2018

Preaching for Unbelief

This post is part of a teaching series on Catalyzing Mission through Preaching. Read part one and part two. Your church will never be more missional than its leaders. Your preaching will not be fruitful in leading people into mission if you’ve…

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Church Archives - Page 3 of 7 - Saturate

Proactive Leadership Development for Multiplication

What Surprised You in Your Transition

Where Do I Go from Here?

The Orientation of a Strong Team

Moving Toward Mission without Division

Finding the Right People

Get Started – Moving from Sunday to Everyday

Building a Strong Team

How Transitioning Impacts Sunday Morning

Redefining Team Leadership

Why Missional Community Pilot Groups?

Better than Christmas

We Need “Good Shepherd” Theology

Give Them Jesus

Reconstructing Our True Identity

Hope for Deconstructed Christians

From One Generation to the Next

Words Lived Out

Speaking with Caution

The Disciple and Trauma

Embodying a Justice-Saturated Gospel

How the True Story Reforms our Conversation

Teenagers Are Not The Future of The Church

Both/And

Saturating our College Campuses

What Really Counts?

Everyday Endings

He is Well Pleased with Us

Leaving an Enduring Legacy

It Starts with the Life of the Preacher

Transitioning Church Culture

Changing Your Preparation

Uniquely Positioned

Preaching to Equip People for the Mission

God’s Calling, Man’s Driving

Preaching for Unbelief

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