Category: Connecting to Culture
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Throw a party!
glocalnet t-lounge: Throw More Parties!: “One of the best pieces of advice that I received early on was simply put, ‘Throw more Parties.’ Church planting really comes down to meeting people and connecting those people to one another. They may connect with you early on but if they don’t connect with one another they will […]
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Michael Frost on what it means to be missional
It’s a 51 minute talk, but it’s absolutely worth watching …
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Connections happen when we rely on others
In this post, Darren Prince tells about how asking for help instead of fixing a bike tire on his own brought a small – but significant – breakthrough with a neighbor… As people on mission, if we are the answers to our own problems, we probably miss out on bonding opportunities with our neighbors. Why […]
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There’s power in sacrifice
A woman is walking around at the CIA command center somewhere overseas. They’ve been tracking a rogue agent and are hot on his trail. Her cellphone rings. “Pamela Landy,” she says. “This is Jason Bourne,” the caller says. They go on to exchange important spy-like details and cleverly written dialogue. He wants to meet. She […]
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A power trifecta of amazing posts!
Every once in a while you need an over-the-top title, don’t you? But seriously, there are three bloggers who have has some amazing posts recently. And in my goodness, I’m going to point you right to them. First, recording artist extraordinarre Shaun Groves tells a story in three parts (one, two, and three) you’ve got […]
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A network church – diversity and unity
When Grete and I fly into LAX from a trip, we typically take the Metro train back to Pasadena. Although it’s a much longer trip than taking a car, I love the experience. The crowd riding the Metro is incredibly diverse. You have high schoolers hopping on and riding one stop down together, men and […]
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Learn from people with different perspectives
Maybe it’s not right to “rate” churches. Maybe it seems consumeristic. Maybe one visit to a service can’t get the feel of a community. But what if a view from the outside, from an atheist, shed some light on a few of your blind spots? What if it caused a little conversation? What if it […]
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Do two things well
In one way of looking at it, church exists for two things: a message – to tell the world of God’s love. To share they have a way, a hope. a movement – to be the incarnation of that love in the world. Here and now. An exciting thing has happened over the past […]
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Don’t Hide – links to the sermon
If you’re interested in hearing the sermon I preached last month, you can hear it here. If you’d prefer, you can also search for “Glenkirk Church” in iTunes and pull it up through their podcast. And here are the visuals if you want to follow along. Enjoy :). I also used a video the folks […]
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My next steps (part four)
Here’s my final “next step” thought from the class I took with Alan. I’ll process more of the ideas from the class later, but these are simply a few of the things I need to apply from the time personally. As with any classroom environment, it’s easy to get stuck in the theory and never […]
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My next steps (part three)
The third post in my series of next steps I’m taking after a class with Alan Hirsch. Read the first two here and here. Gospels – Most of the communities we talked about centered most of their learning around the Gospels. We get most of what we know about God from Jesus, so we need […]
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My next steps (part two)
Continuing from the last post, here’s another next step I’m taking after finishing up The Forgotten Ways. Practices – The Western church is all about knowledge. If we KNOW enough, we’ll start DOING the right things, right? It hasn’t really worked, has it? I love how some churches we discussed have embraced practices instead of […]
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My next steps (part one)
So I haven’t blogged much about The Forgotten Ways since last Monday’s class. The week flew by! But I will be writing more about some pieces soon. We finished with the classroom portion last Friday. I’ll just say it was a powerful week – listening to Alan, processing the ideas, hearing other people’s stories and […]
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More traffic?
(This post originally ran here in May of last year. It’s re-running because it fits with some of the recent conversation. Consider it a “Best of.”) Check out these excerpts from Seth’s Blog: “So, here’s your choice: You can have a billboard in Times Square (seen by 2 million people a day), or you can […]
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The Forgotten Ways – Day one, part one
Here’s a quick list of a few things that stood out to me from the first day of class. Before you read, know this: I can’t include everything, so you’re getting a limited context. Read the books! Also, Alan is great at helping a group understand a problem so they see the need for a […]
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