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Coaching Discipleship Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth Transitioning

November 9, 2016

Transitioning Community Groups to Small Groups

Post two in a short series on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people by Todd Engstrom. Read part three here. In the last post, we looked at…

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Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Identity Leadership Mission Missional Community Prayer

November 7, 2016

Prayerful Planning for the Extrovert (and Introvert)

In the world of missional communities and church-planting, there’s a real misconception that to be effective you’ve got to be blowing the doors off your house every week. I wasn’t born a planner, but out of necessity I’ve gotten…

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Bible & Theology Church Coaching Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth Transitioning Uncategorized

November 2, 2016

Turning Group Culture With The Same Group of People

Post one in a short series by Todd Engstrom on how to turn a "small group" culture into a "missional community" culture with the same group of people. Read part two here. Community Group: The primary need of people in…

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Church Discipleship Foundations Leadership Missionary Pastoring Prayer Resources

October 24, 2016

Train, Model, Send

It’s one thing to teach people what to do and how, but it’s an entirely different experience to give them the equipment to do it on their own. When I was 16 my grandfather invited me spend the summer working…

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Arts & Culture Bible & Theology Community Discipleship Family Leadership Mission Missional Community Missionary Servant

October 17, 2016

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas

Cultural celebrations are not man-made institutions. Like much of God’s creation, holidays can be—and have been—distorted for all sorts of less-than-holy purposes. But what if “Santa” really isn’t an anagram for “Satan”? What if we can we redeem this…

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Bible & Theology Discipleship Domains of Society Foundations Leadership Mission Missional Community

October 12, 2016

Reactivating Authentic Discipleship

(Part three in the Recovering Missional Moxie series from Alan Hirsch. Read part four here.) That people all across America (and the Western world, for that matter) think that Christians are fundamentally unlike Christ is a serious problem! An absolutely central issue…

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Apologetics Arts & Culture Bible & Theology Church Community Discipleship Ethics Faith and Work Foundations Gospel Leadership Mission Missionary Spiritual Growth

September 28, 2016

Awaken the Sleeping Giant

(Part one a new series from Alan Hirsch. Read part two here.) The way we think of ourselves and conceive our most basic purposes in this world make a massive difference in the way we behave. I really do believe…

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Community Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Kids Leadership Mission Missional Community Youth & Teens

September 23, 2016

Kids? Here’s what we do . . .

Have questions about student ministry, serving the marginalized and protecting our kids, and logistics ... get your answers here. Last week's blog post about how to care for, disciple, and include kids during small group or missional community meetings…

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Family Gospel Kids Leadership Missional Community Missionary Servant Spiritual Growth

September 16, 2016

What Do We Do With the Kids?

Guest post by Jayne Vanderstelt. Keep in mind, when we think about children and our missional community, we ask: How can our children join us in the overall mission? How do we disciple them all week long? How do…

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Community Discipleship Family Gospel Gospel Shepherding Identity Leadership Missional Community Missionary Prayer Servant Spiritual Growth Women

August 26, 2016

Leading From Your Own Need for Jesus

We need people who have access to our lives, ask us hard questions, probe our motivations, and remind us of the freedom we’ve been given in Jesus. In a post I wrote a few years ago, I discussed how the…

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Church Church Planting Coaching Holy Spirit Leadership Missional Community Multiplication Pastoring Transitioning

August 23, 2016

But . . . How Do We Do It?

(You can read the next part in the How Do We Do It series here.) The problem is that most people aren’t asking, not to mention listening. When I became a part of the Soma Family of Churches, I…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

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Bible & Theology Church Gospel Holy Spirit Identity Leadership Pastoring Prayer Transitioning

August 19, 2016

Is It Okay To Leave My Church?

Have we finished the work you have for us to do in this place? Recently I was asked this question: How do you know when/if it's okay to leave a church? (My husband is a pastor on staff.) The…

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Church Discipleship Identity Leadership Pastoring Spiritual Growth

August 15, 2016

Multiple Single personality disorder?

If left to my own devices, the organization I lead would be fast-paced, effective, busy, and discontent. Because that’s how I am. Whatever shapes our yokes of leadership take, that truth adds weight as they sit on our shoulders.…

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Apologetics Arts & Culture Church Community Discipleship Faith and Work Family Leadership Mission Missionary Prayer Spiritual Growth

August 12, 2016

A Life on Display

I live unbound to the ideas of who I think I should be; instead I choose to be who God created me to be. “Let your light shine before others so that they see your good deeds and glorify…

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Church Domains of Society Leadership Missional Community Missionary

August 8, 2016

Communities on Mission … Around The World

Gospel saturation is happening across the globe. I have the privilege of traveling the world to equip everyday folks in the gospel ... from church leaders, young people, to ministries and organizations ... here are some of those stories. Australia: Learn…

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Church Community Discipleship Domains of Society Everyday Rhythms Family Gospel Holy Spirit Leadership Mission Missional Community Missionary Prayer Resources Servant

July 29, 2016

“Undoing” Wrong Thinking

Getting believers to obey God together in the midst of non-Christians is one of the most powerful witnesses to the gospel we have. I recently sat down with Brian Daniel from LifeWay's Groups Ministry blog to talk about helping churches and…

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Church Discipleship Domains of Society Gospel Identity Leadership Missional Community Resources Transitioning

July 25, 2016

EveryDay Seattle – Last Week for Early Bird Pricing!

Have you been tossing around the idea of coming to an EveryDay? Well, register now and take advantage of early bird pricing! But hurry; the discount ends soon! Or maybe you're still on the fence about whether or not this…

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Church Leadership

July 22, 2016

God Dreams (and a Giveaway!)

Is your team excited about the next big dream for your church? Will Mancini has graciously supplied us with five giveaway copies of his latest book, God Dreams. (See below to enter.) This book is not only a continuation of his…

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Bible & Theology Current Events Discipleship Domains of Society Gospel Leadership Life Issues Prayer Resources

July 8, 2016

Dividing Wall of Enmity – REMOVED!

Christians = ministers of the gospel. In light of the escalating racial tragedies in Baton Rouge, Minnesota, and Dallas, we as Gospel Ministers, have a responsibility to bring greater gospel clarity and comfort. The gospel makes it clear God…

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Gospel Shepherding Leadership Missional Community

June 30, 2016

Am I Called to Lead?

There are three more “typical” ways God calls people into leadership. Sometimes, people are led to start a missional community through, what most of us would call, the spectacular. They have a dream, and see seemingly bizarre signs, or…

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Church Family Gospel Shepherding Holy Spirit Leadership Prayer Spiritual Growth

June 10, 2016

Making Decisions in Community

Have you ever had to make a weighty decision on your own? It can be agonizing, wondering if you are going about it in the right way or not. Unfortunately, this is how most people make decisions in our…

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Domains of Society Everyday Rhythms Family Leadership Mission Missional Community Missionary

June 8, 2016

Start With a Common Mission

3 Ways to Share Mission The result of the church being sent is that we live as a community of disciples—not only devoted to Jesus and to one another—but devoted to our neighbors and our city, too. When we…

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Faith and Work Foundations Gospel Leadership Life Issues Missional Community Spiritual Growth

May 27, 2016

Speak of the Gospel, Part 2

So much of life is ordinary. In Part 1 of this series, I gave some practical ways to speak the gospel, focusing on core doctrines and implications. In Part 2, I would like to talk about some of…

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Church Coaching Discipleship Holy Spirit Leadership Missional Community Spiritual Growth

May 16, 2016

Why Are Questions So Powerful?

Think back to some of your most powerful times of growth. Maybe a friend or mentor challenged something you said by asking, “how can that be true?” Maybe a spouse confronted you by saying, “tell me more about what…

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Bible & Theology Community Discipleship Gospel Leadership Life Issues Pastoring Spiritual Growth

May 10, 2016

How does the gospel apply to THAT?

How would you respond to that question? Let me give you the context, and ask you again: you’re a night security guard, and presumably the only Christian in your workplace. Another guard suddenly sticks his head into your office.…

by Jordan Elder 0

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Church Coaching Holy Spirit Leadership Spiritual Growth

February 5, 2016

The Role of Coaching in the Church

Proverbs 20:5 tells us “the purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out”. Think about this word picture we are being given by the author. There is a deep…

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