Latest Articles
Heading for Cleveland!!
Blog Tour For Prodigal Christianity: Begins Monday
The 3, the 12 and the 120
Making Peace with the Bridge … for Now… by Geoff Holsclaw
Writing from Within Your Life: Each Year 3 Million Books are Published (by David Fitch)
Is the Kingdom Outside the Church? Yes and Here’s Why: My Take on Matt 25 by David Fitch
My Pushback on APEST: A Retrospect by Ty Grigg
Frank Viola’s Unpredictable Next Book
Sentness Extends Authority: Exploring what it means to be sent.
Me and Mr (Tony) Jones: We Got A Thing Goin On
Why Saying “Emergent is the New Protestant Mainline” Is Really No Big Deal: Labeling is Good For Theological Discourse by David Fitch
Looking For Church Planter Training that is Missional?
On Becoming Political Organizers for the Kingdom: The Missional Phobia of Gathering A Crowd
Being a Pastor Does Not Have To Be a Death Sentence by Ty Grigg
APEST: Not So Fast! : A PushBack on APEST as a Model For Church Leadership by Ty Grigg
Working Out the Anabaptist View on Same Sex Marriage
Initiating People Into the Kingdom: Catechism at Life on the Vine by Cyd Holsclaw
Is Tim Keller a Closet Niebuhrian? Post #2 on Center Church by David Fitch
Here’s Some (Cheap) Events Worth Going To In the Midwest
Feel Good Justice?:The Problem of Starbuck’s Logic in the Church by David Fitch
Going Beyond The Current Polarities: An Immoderate Proposal
Is the church a place to hear good preaching? or more “prodigal” than that?
Robert Farrar Capon on Confession of Sin by MattTebbe
The Example of Lawndale Christian Community: Four Lessons to Learn for Every Missional Leader
The Challenge of Being The Church in the World by David Fitch
Three Ways to Keep Your Sheep From Getting Stolen by Chris Morton
Ignore Ideology at Your Own Risk: One More Look at the LGBTQ Debate.
The Doctor of – Missional Church – Ministry Continues to Grow
I Quit… by Ty Grigg
Mega Churches Steal Sheep: My Ongoing Debate With Ed Stetzer
Missional? Not Another Program At Your Local Church
What we HOPE ‘Missional’ Could Mean by Geoff Holsclaw
The Grace to Do Nothing: On Social Justice in the Neighborhood
Prodigal Christianity: Why We Wrote This Book
Gary Nelson on Canadians, Mission and the Missio Alliance
Is the Gospel the Center of the Church or is Jesus? Dialoguing with Tim Keller’s Center Church
“Hugging the Cactus” As Gateway to the Gospel by Matt Tebbe
Bruxy Cavey, the Anabaptist Vision and Mission
Mission Statement or Shared Imagination? How We Gather by David Fitch
Mission Hidden in Plain Sight: The Gospel in Everyday Life by Cyd Holsclaw
Fresh Expressions Coming to the Midwest
Me and the Ideology of Sex: Some Reflection on Yesterday’s Post
“Regarding LGBTQ, What is Your Position?” “I Don’t Have One”
Contextual Theology and Why Seminaries Should Do It by David Fitch
Are the Neo-Reformed/Evangelicals Niebuhrians? and therefore ill equipped for Post-Christendom?
Missional Church Needs More Substantive Theology!
Do We Still Need “Home Visitations” in Post-Christendom? by Ty Grigg
“God Used You To Destroy My World”: Preaching and Spiritual Formation
Taking This Blog to The Next Thing: Announcing Changes for The New Year 2013
3 Signs You Are Not A Leader (in the Kingdom)
When Nihilism Visits the Shopping Mall: A Brief Word to Missional Communities During Advent
On Going to the Sick (in the Neighborhood)
The Groucho Marx Theory of Church
Lance Ford’s “UnLeader”: Deconstructing what “leadership” has become in the N. American church.
Learning a “Way of Life” Is Step One in Planting a Missional Community
Proclaiming Gospel: Preaching on Sunday as Practice for the Rest of the Week
Proclaiming the Gospel as Reality-Creating Event: or 3 reasons why this is not your parent’s evangelism.
D. Min Missional : Announcing the New Cohort for 2013 ( and Scot McKnight Joins Us!)
Proclaiming the Gospel in The Neighborhood