Neighborhood Connections
What does Neighborhood Connections look like, and what is the result? Learn about it here.
Read MoreMissional Community Development
Missional Community Development requires a reworking of our model for church. Instead of focusing the preponderance of our energy on bringing people into our buildings, we use our resources to empower and equip Jesus followers to be the Church where they are, living incarnationally, and discipling people into the church.
Read MoreIn the Incarnation, God Gets Personal
Transcript from talk at Concordia University student chapel on God's example of incarnational ministry.
Read MoreMissio Dei and Missional Living
Missio Dei is Latin and means "mission of God." It is God, in his sovereignty, glorifying himself by initiating and sustaining a plan of salvation that will reach all the people of the world, including your neighbor. As Jesus followers, we have an important role to play in Missio Dei because the sovereign Lord over all things partners with us to accomplish his mission of salvation. Consider the magnitude of this! If you have ever felt under utilized as a Kingdom person, feel that way no more – your role in Missio Dei is essential. While Missio Dei exalts God as the Creator and Savior of all humankind, it is we, the Church, who is the purveyor of his salvation message. You are welcome – you now have something to do.
Read MoreRelationships: the key to effective community ministry
For a church to develop from being a church “in” the community to being a church “with” the community, it must transform some of its characteristics with the intent of living in relationship with people in its sphere of influence. Take a look at the following table for a summary of these characteristics.
Read MoreWhich church would you like to be?
Early in my ministry career, I served at a church that was located in an under-resourced community. The church property was hard to miss as it was situated on a couple of acres and located on a busy road. If you worshiped there, you would immediately notice that the people inside the church on Sunday morning were very dissimilar to the people in the park, grocery store and other everyday spaces. In fact, this church was a fortress, not in architecture, but in the invisible and ever-present walls of a separatist attitude that stood as a barrier between “us” and...
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