Missional Conversation (Part 1)
Here’s an interesting video of a conversation between Ed Stetzer and Dave Fitch — two guys who both love Jesus and both love the church. It’s a little long-ish, but I think it’s very worthwhile. They talk about some of the stuff we’ve been talking about around here lately. A Missional Conversation (Part 1) Here are some of my thoughts (in no particular order): I love Ed’s perspective that missional isn’t about our own preferences but about getting on board God’s mission. I love Dave&

Missional Church
We took a stab at trying to define “attractional” church. Personally, I wonder why we feel the need to add -al to the end of everything these days, but there it is. Attractional. Missional. Incarnational. Anyway…. The term “missional” is being used a lot nowadays, but very few people know what it means. It’s become kind of a junk drawer for everything people would like to see fixed in local churches. Some people talk about adding culturally relevant music to their Sunday morning gatherings and say it’s important because they’re trying to be “missional”. Others talk about serving the poor as a way of being “m

Attractional Church
We covered this territory back in March of 2007 when I was reading a book called The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch. It’s come up again in light of our recent conversation. Plus, we’ve added so many new readers to this blog in the last two-and-a-half years, it might be beneficial to revisit topics like this every so often. JamesBrett has been hinting around this thought, but let’s go ahead

The 52 Greatest Stories of the Bible — On Sale
My heads up agent just alerted me to the fact that Christian Book Distributors has the book on sale for $11.99 now — which is almost as cheap as I can get it from my publisher! Here’s the link if you want to get some early Christmas shopping done. Oh, and if you order it, you can mail it to me before December 11. I’ll sign it and send it back before Christmas. How about that for a deal?

In Search of a Silver Bullet
Every generation it seems wants a silver bullet. They want the secret formula for instant church growth. Do this. Say that. Play these songs. Preach those sermons. And…voila! You’ll be doing four Sunday services just like the big boys do! Yeah…it doesn’t work like that. The most effective strategy (ironically, it’s the most biblical strategy as well) for evangelism will always, always, always be one-on-one, one person telling another person what God has done in and through his life. Sorry. Jesus told his followers to be witnesses — to just get out there and tell folks what they’d seen and hear