Latest Articles

World Vision and The Public Sport of Evangelical In-Fighting
Chastening the mantra “God is at work in the world”: Lessons from WW2
Membership Has Its Practices: Membership in Missional Communities After Christendom
The Failed Arizona Anti-Gay Legislation: The Lesson for Christian Mission
On Fundamentally Changing the Expectations of Church-Planting

“God Used You To Destroy My World”: Preaching and Spiritual Formation
Quit Sending Individuals Out As Missionaries: The Kingdom Starts With Communities
“I Don’t Like Singing”: What Don Miller Misses About Singing in Worship?
The Dynamics of the Way Congregations Form: My New Course at Fuller

Ecclesia Network and Me: A Personal Testimonial
We’re Excessively Confused About Love: The Grammys 2014 As a Liturgy for Our Time
Is the Church Jesus? Arguing for a Closer Relationship between Jesus, His Reign and the Church, and being alright with that!

In honor of Dr Martin Luther King
Zizek, the Space In-Between, and Mission
DMin Seminar Week: I’ll Be Back Posting The Week of January 13th!
Ten Best Theological Posts of 2013
The Lesson of Driscoll’s Plagiarism: A Rant On Rejecting Celebrity Leadership

What is Your Theology of Sexuality? 5 Questions
How Apologetics Hurts Our Witness
Can I Play God? The Temptation That Is In Andy Crouch’s Book

A Missional Community Diagnostic
Authority in The Kingdom is Different
Preparing for MissionaryHood
How Do Churches Choose Its Leaders?
No Twitter, No Facebook, No Blog. I’m on The Road To Indiana and Ohio

Discussing Shop – The Line-Up for Next Week’s MLC
5 Tips on Keeping Bi-Vocational Ministry from Imploding
Nothing is as important as “PRESENCE”

The Start-With-Twelve ‘Strategy’
The Space Between MLK and Malcolm X: What the Missional Church Can Learn about Racial Reconciliation
What the Missional Church is Missing: Proclaiming the Gospel?

Lost in Translation Part 2: The Gathering Function of Leadership
The Perils of Doing a Ph.D.: Be Forewarned
There’s a Nagging Disconnect Between Neighborhood and Church

Lost in Translation: 5 Over-reactions in the Missional Church

What’s Happening In The Weeks Ahead

The Holy Angst of Dislocation
Announcing Missional Learning Commons 2013: Coming Oct 25, 26th (A Non Conference for Mutual Colaborating in Mission)
“Knitting While Detroit Burns?”: The Reformed “Both/And” versus the Anabaptist “First/ Then”
OFF ON HOLIDAY!!
The UnKingdom of God: a book by Mark Van Steenwyk: Therapy for Living the Modern Life Under His Rule
Create a New ‘Order’ of Clergy: A Recommendation to Denominations

The Missional Movement is Mostly White and What We Should Do About it. Warning: Blog Post by A White Male

How To Avoid Becoming a Cult (or for that matter A Large Consumer Mega Church): Oikos versus Ekklesia
The State of the Missional Conversation is Not Good: Has the Neo-Reformed Quit Talking?
The Proliferation of Missional Roundtables: See You in the Twin Cities Next Weekend
Working on Site Redesign
Signs the Spirit Has Left the Building by Ty Grigg
Scot McKnight Starts a D.MIn Program in New Testament

Why Do American Christians Prefer Big? by David Fitch
The Three Biggest Fears We Face When Seeding a MIssional Community by David Fitch
Bi-vocationalism as guerrilla warfare: 5 thoughts by Geoff Holsclaw
Egalitarianism (feminism) leads to Liberalism: Why I’m for Abolishing the Whole Egalitarian/Complementarian Logic
The Church Gathering Should be Like a Good AA Meeting
My Interview With Frank Viola
Not Blogging This Week Because …
The Pain and the Opportunity in the SGM Scandal by David Fitch
