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Family Gospel Kids Mission Missionary Uncategorized Women

January 25, 2018

On Mission with Us

While I do want to fully treasure these years I have with my children, more than anything I want them to know without a doubt who I treasure and to come to treasure Him themselves. Last night, my eight-year-old…

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…

Church Community Mission Missionary Servant Youth & Teens

January 18, 2018

Proactive Mission to Vulnerable Kids and Families

Our longing should be for vulnerable kids to encounter the love of the Father through our community, for parents and kids who have been separated to get a picture of the reconciliation that comes through Jesus, and for those…

Discipleship Leadership Missional Community Pastoring

January 4, 2018

Leadership in Community

A leader welcomes people into the mess of it and works with a community to figure out how they will do it together. Leadership is such a strange thing, especially in the West. The position of leadership is idolized…

Church Community Domains of Society Mission Servant Youth & Teens

December 21, 2017

Foster Care and the Church

A City-Wide Missional Focus As I’ve shared briefly in some previous articles, a small but growing number of pastors in our community have joined forces to tackle the issue of foster care and to unite around the mission of…

by Jeff Vanderstelt 0

Foundations Leadership Missional Community

December 19, 2017

God’s Grace to Us in 2017

In the early 2000's, my family and a small team of disciples planted a church of missional communities in Tacoma, WA—a venture which seemed to many to be just another church plant. Except, word got out about this church that…

by Rachel Swartley 0

Discipleship Family Gospel Identity Missional Community

December 14, 2017

Unshakable Joy

We were created to declare His goodness; to revel in the depths of how satisfying He is. God has given us a mission to be family, missionaries, and servants. He calls us to be full of thanksgiving and constant…

by Sondra Chamberlain 0

Discipleship Everyday Rhythms Mission Missional Community

December 7, 2017

A Beautiful Mess

At times it feels like a hot mess but it truly is a beautiful mess of people loving Jesus and one loving another. When we started leading a missional community in 2004, we had absolutely no idea what we…

by Ben Connelly 0

Discipleship Gospel Holy Spirit Leadership Mission

December 5, 2017

Go… But First, Wait

And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with…

Community Gospel Identity Missional Community Resources

December 4, 2017

Holiday Guide in Action

Guest post by Rusty Langford, pastor at Matthew's Table I believe even the process itself of thinking together of how to grow in our love for God, one another, and our neighbors is formative as people seeking to be…

by Donald Zimmerman 0

Church Everyday Rhythms Gospel Leadership Mission Pastoring

November 30, 2017

Beginnings Matter

Check out part one of our Gospel Liturgies series here. A single mom stumbles through the foyer, dragging a sobbing infant who’s sick for the third time this winter. A pair of empty-nesters stroll in smiling after a silent…

by Marvin Olasky 0

Faith and Work Gospel Mission

November 28, 2017

A Christian Journalist’s Vocation

When we talk about Gospel Saturation we are talking about the truths of Jesus changing everything - every person and every place. As followers of Jesus this means that our places of work are saturated with the gospel through Christ…

by Amy Lathrop 0

Church Discipleship Gospel Missional Community

November 27, 2017

Gifts for Gospel Saturation

Give a gift that makes a difference. We know your inbox is likely full of sales, coupons, and advertisements this week so we don't want to add to that noise, but we do want to share with you some incredible…

Church Discipleship Gospel Leadership Mission

November 21, 2017

Are Missional Communities the Key to Church Unity?

Equipping believers to partner together as gospel communities and commissioning them to be missionaries in the everyday places where they already work, play, learn, and live will lead to a much more sustainable path to unity over time. In…

by David Achata 1

Discipleship Foundations Gospel Holy Spirit Identity Mission Spiritual Growth

November 16, 2017

The Call & The Power

Apart from God’s miraculous intervention, my teaching will only go so far. Our methods alone are dead ends. We’ve got to pray for this power. “For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine…

Missional Community Saturate Podcast

November 15, 2017

Episode 025: What Missional Community Do

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney talk about the often overlooked questions...

by Rich McCaskill 0

Discipleship Foundations Mission Prayer

November 14, 2017

The Beauty of Rest

Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and the tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in…

by Tim Parlier 0

Everyday Rhythms Gospel Mission Missionary

November 7, 2017

Transitioning to a Spiritual Conversation

“God has placed you — deliberately, with intentionality — in proximity to people He is seeking to restore to Himself, people He wants to be developed to their full potential, so they can take part in His plans for…

by Rich McCaskill 0

Everyday Rhythms Gospel Mission Missionary

October 31, 2017

The Work of an Evangelist

His rescuing love is the trustworthy seed that our friends need. When shared sincerely, it will change them as it has changed us! The calling to “do the work of an evangelist” (2 Timothy 4:5) has been put to…

by Amy Lathrop 0

Church Discipleship Foundations Gospel Kids Leadership Missional Community Pastoring

October 30, 2017

The Story of God for Kids

Guest Post by Justin Kuravackal for Saturate My three year old daughter loved looking at the pictures as I read from her children’s book of Bible stories. She knew the stories so well that in one sleepy moment when I…

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…

Missional Community Saturate Podcast

October 25, 2017

Episode 023: How Artists Engage Community and Mission

In this episode of the Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson talks with writer and Saturate Podcast editor Ben Fort about serving artists, comedy, and creating within the framework of creation, fall, and redemption.

by Brad Watson 1

Church Discipleship Gospel Missional Community Spiritual Growth

October 23, 2017

Gospel Fluency Handbook

Jeff Vanderstelt and Ben Connelly, wrote Gospel Fluency Handbook: A Practical Guide to Speaking the Truths of Jesus into the Everyday Stuff of Life for those who’ve realized they disbelieve God, His goodness and His gospel in areas of…

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 Coaching Discipleship Missional Community

October 17, 2017

How to be Coached

Coaching is essential for a sustained missional community movement. If you are committed to decentralized discipleship, you must make ongoing investments in leaders. We call this coaching—a process of pulling out what the Holy Spirit has already put inside…

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…

Gospel Missional Community Uncategorized

October 11, 2017

Episode 021: How Does the Gospel Motivate Us?

In this episode of The Saturate Podcast, Brad Watson and Jared Pickney discuss how the gospel motivates them for living a life in community and on mission. They also discuss ways to remind ourselves of the gospel daily and pitfalls…

Church Community Gospel Missional Community

October 10, 2017

Taking Practical Steps Towards Unity

You’ll want the prayer, support, and encouragement of your church family if you’re going to move in this direction, and in order for that to happen, they will need to see Church unity as an integral part of your…

Church Leadership Missional Community Pastoring Transitioning

October 5, 2017

Empowering Others to Act

Catch part six of this series here! One of the greatest barriers to the vision becoming reality is leaders not providing a simple, understandable way to live out the vision for missional communities. If you follow these steps and…

by David Achata 0

Discipleship Gospel Shepherding Missional Community Spiritual Growth

October 3, 2017

The Call & The Wilderness

Scripture shows consistently that when God calls someone, he sends them to the wilderness. If it’s an important enough category for God, then we need one too. Moses, Israel, David, Elijah, the Apostle Paul, even Jesus all were sent…

Church Leadership Missional Community Missionary Pastoring Transitioning

September 28, 2017

Communicating the Vision for Missional Communities

Catch part five of this series here. Simply because everyone can articulate the same core values does not mean the vision has taken hold. After working hard to craft a vision for missional communities, you’ve got to start thinking about…

Church Leadership Missional Community Missionary Pastoring Transitioning

September 21, 2017

Crafting a Vision for Missional Communities

Catch part four of this series here. It isn’t just about having a catchy phrase and some branding but having a fully-formed understanding of why you are making a transition and communicating it in a variety of different ways…

Church Missional Community

September 19, 2017

Making Unity a Priority

The temptation is to give up and think that this kind of unity would never work, but we believe that this vision is near to the heart of God and that we can move forward with confidence in his…

Church Leadership Missional Community Missionary Pastoring Transitioning

September 14, 2017

Forming a Strategic Team to Lead Transition

Catch part two and part three of the series. This team you build needs to be more captivated that your church would become something, rather than simply excited about implementing a new strategy! After you have created a sense of urgency and convinced…

Church Leadership Missional Community Missionary Pastoring Transitioning

September 7, 2017

Creating a Sense of Urgency

Catch part one and part two of the series. What is most important is open, honest and convincing dialogue about what is true from the Scriptures and where your church simply doesn’t match up. For change to happen, it helps…

by Tim Parlier 0