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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?…

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…

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 Amy Lathrop 0

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 Paul Whaley 0

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.…

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 Ryan LaTour 0

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 Ryan LaTour 0

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 Ryan LaTour 0

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…

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,…

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…

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…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 1

Discipleship Mission Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

June 26, 2018

Preaching Matters

This post is part of a teaching series on Catalyzing Mission through Preaching. Read part one here. I believe the goal of preaching must be mission; the mission of making disciples who make disciples. When you preach you have to…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 3

Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Mission Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

June 19, 2018

Sundays Matter

This post is part of a teaching series on Catalyzing Mission through Preaching. We Need Each Other Corporate worship gatherings matter for mission. We’re called to not give up meeting together, but to encourage one another and spur each other toward love…

by Brad Watson 0

Church Discipleship Leadership Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

June 12, 2018

Our Common Struggle

I was raised in a Catholic European city. My neighborhood was littered with cathedrals. They were statues of the past more than they were pillars of the present. Except for major holidays and the incredible buildings, it was hard…

by Sunee Hillyer 0

Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

June 8, 2018

Saturate Summer Reading List

With Summer just around the corner our team wanted to share with you a few of our current favorite books when it comes to leadership, missional living, and everyday discipleship. If you're on the search for something to read…

by Paul Whaley 0

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

May 31, 2018

Transitioning in the Bible Belt

This is a guest post by Paul Whaley. Paul is the Lead Teaching Pastor of Summit Crossing Community Church. He has helped to lead out in transitioning Sc3 community groups from primarily being inward focused to becoming missional communities over…

Coaching Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

May 24, 2018

From Vision to Reality

My name is Marshall Benbow, and I am the discipleship pastor at Grace Community Church in Greensboro, NC. We are a church of about 500 in a Bible Belt city of about 250,000 people. Over the years through the…

by Paul Dean 0

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

May 10, 2018

There is No Going Back

After experiencing the joy of life together on mission, there is no going back to an isolated life or a faith that only has an expression for a few hours on a Sunday. Eight years ago our church, Soma…

Coaching Discipleship Holy Spirit Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

April 12, 2018

Why Coaching is Essential to Movements

Getting the church to be what it was meant to be—a family on mission—doesn’t happen only through teaching and talking. People already have enough information; they need application. One of the first ministry opportunities I ever had was to lead…

by Todd Morr 0

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

April 5, 2018

Moving From Sunday to Everyday

Transition - noun: a movement, development, or evolution from one form, stage, or style to another. That’s our hope for the upcoming Transitions Conference in August! That every leader and church attending would gain clarity on how to effectively equip…

Church Coaching Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

March 27, 2018

When You’re On a Larger Team

This is a guest post by Aaron Kampman. Aaron has been part of a Saturate coaching cohort for a little over a year. As a former NFL athlete, Aaron has a lot of experience with coaching and its benefits. From high school through…

Church Planting Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

March 20, 2018

Coaching Like a Ninja

This is a guest post by Brian Mease. Brian is a husband and father of 3, has been in Pastoral Ministry for over 15 years. As a graduate of Liberty University and a seminary dropout, his truest ministry passion is…

Coaching Discipleship Foundations Leadership Pastoring Transitioning Uncategorized

March 13, 2018

You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

This is a guest post by Johnathan Schroeder. Johnathan is husband to Jill and the father of Judah (7) and Jessah (2). In 1995 God began a work in Johnathan, God showed Johnathan his useless pursuit of acceptance and…

Church Coaching Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

March 6, 2018

Revealing a Better Teacher

This is a guest post by Nick Crawford. Nick serves as the Family & Groups Pastor at Fondren Church in Jackson, Mississippi, where he works to see disciples made, matured, and multiplied across all generations. Nick came to Jackson from…

Church Leadership Pastoring Transitioning

February 22, 2018

Where Are We Now?

Where Are We Now? So we killed missional culture by assuming the gospel, by casting vision without practices, and finally by not loving consumers. Here’s what you can conclude from this series – The Austin Stone is one messed up church. We’ve made…

by Todd Engstrom 1

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

February 15, 2018

We Didn’t Love Consumers

So to this point, we’d committed two cardinal sins – we assumed the gospel, we cast vision without practices. But what about the final group of people we had, that 30% who stuck their heads in the sand when we cast…

Church Leadership Mission Pastoring Transitioning

February 8, 2018

Casting Vision Without Practice

The first way we killed missional culture was assuming the gospel. Keeping the gospel central also helped the 60% who were frustrated, but we learned another lesson with that group of people.

Church Gospel Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

January 30, 2018

We Assumed the Gospel

Read the first post in this series here. May I implore you to learn from our mistakes – don’t ever assume the gospel. In your pulpits, in your core team gatherings, in your elder meetings, or in any ministry environment…

by Todd Engstrom 1

Church Mission Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

January 23, 2018

Killing Missional Culture

We had the best of intentions, but had some pretty poor results. In our zeal for movement, we did some serious damage to the people God had entrusted us with. I have been a part of The Austin Stone for almost…

by Amy Lathrop 0

Church Gospel Missionary Transitioning

December 28, 2017

Saturation in Southern California

This is a guest post by Hunter Benson. Hunter serves as the Missions and Mercy Pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in San Diego. Hunter also supports Tim Keller’s church planting network, Redeemer City to City, as the City to…

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

October 26, 2017

Institutionalizing the Change

If there is one thing I have learned in the transition to missional community, it is “practice the art of assuming nothing”. Never assume that you, your team, your leaders, or your church have it figured out! To make…

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

October 19, 2017

Building on the Change

Catch part eight of this series here. More important than desiring the fruit of missional ministry is a core conviction that you can’t do ministry another way. At a certain point in the transition to missional communities, you have executed…

Church Everyday Rhythms Leadership Mission Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

October 12, 2017

Celebrating Wins

Catch part seven of this series here. If you simply report out percentages without stories attached, it is far too easy to forget that you are leading and discipling real people with real problems and the real Jesus is…