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By Ed Stetzer Yo-Yos, newer churches, and established churches Missional effectiveness begins with a biblical understanding of the message and movement of the missio Dei, which hopefully leads a church to become a missional people who embrace a missional posture and who enact a missional program. So, how does this series about missional effectiveness apply... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer Go where people are, make disciples, plant churches. I’m in a series covering the topic of missional effectiveness. In the previous two posts, I have explained the marks of God’s mission. What I have sought to do is stress the major foci of each mark in an effort to build a visual... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer God’s mission involves sending. But what does God send His people to do? I’m in a blog series covering the topic missional effectiveness. In the previous post, I started to explain the marks of God’s mission, beginning with the missional mark of community. Today, I’ll cover the missional mark of sentness. The... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer Community is the vehicle of God's mission. In this blog series, we are looking at the topic missional effectiveness. Once again, missional effectiveness is embracing the totality of the missio Dei—including its message, movement, and marks—and enacting it in the life of a local church. So far, I have covered the message... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer The mission of God is attractional and incarnational. I don’t know why, but I have a fascination with yo-yos. Now, I can’t yo-yo. Nevertheless, I find it amusing and entertaining as a skilled yo-yoer (if I can use that term) cast the yo-yo out with great rhythmic force only to have it... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer God is on mission to glorify Himself. In the first post I explained that missional effectiveness is embracing the totality of the missio Dei—including its message, movement, and marks—and enacting it in the life of a local church. I don’t know about you, but I have been on many honey-do runs in the... Continue Reading →
By Ed Stetzer What is mission? What is missions? What is missional? Like most people, I want what I buy to work and be effective at what it was created to do. For instance, I have a smartphone that keeps track of my life. I call, text, surf the web, tweet, Facebook, use Maps to... Continue Reading →
By Scott Armstrong “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” – Dalai Lama XIV I’m a fan of Jim Collins, a writer and business researcher. Although the word may have been coined earlier, I believe Collins popularized the term “BHAG” in his book Built to... Continue Reading →
By Jeff Vanderstelt It all began in a boat on a lake with a few fishing poles. It was there, surrounded by the lazy water, my dad and I would have a key conversation that would change the trajectory of my life. My dad was giving me a simple update on his life and shared... Continue Reading →
By Ashlee Holmes It's time to get serious about diversity in the body of Christ. There’s a fine, gray-ish line between things in life that are nice and things that are absolutely necessary. Cable TV and Wi-Fi access? Nice, but not necessary. No-chip manicure with shellac polish? Nice, but not necessary. My iPhone 5? Nice—and... Continue Reading →
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