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Postures That Bring us Closer to our Neighborhood, the City, and the World
Pains are being felt today that didn’t happen overnight, they were brought on by decades and decades of poor posture. The stories of the decline in the institutional, brick-and-mortar church complex likely hold some water and don’t need to be proven here. My guess is that you’ve read the polls and articles or are possibly feeling these realities yourself….Models of church do not accomplish or fail at God’s mission. Our postures, or posture problems, toward participation in what God is doing cause that.
The Emergence of a Church Network
The limitation of one physical location also reduced the kingdom impact in the Bay Area and beyond. Members longed to live out their unique calling of God in their circle of influence. Still, the existing church model at the time promoted the idea of complacency rather than missional living. Hence, God’s people were not released as disciple-makers and kingdom multipliers in their own context. For this reason, Channel Church transitioned from a traditionally structured church to a disciple-making, kingdom multiplication movement
The Advantage of Being a Minority: An Immigrant’s Missional Narrative
If God is as sovereign as the Bible says, then I have to wonder if God brought us here to North America for more than just the “American-Asian Dream.” Those of us who are minorities often ask ourselves, “Why am I in North America?”
Microchurch Leaders: who can lead and how do they emerge?
From middle schoolers among their classmates to families and single people in their neighborhoods, from victim survivors among addicts and women in the sex industry to professionals in places of business. Wherever Jesus is at work calling people into his mission, microchurch leaders can emerge.
10 Thoughts After 10 Years of Planting & Directing Microchurch Networks
This summer marks ten years of planting microchurches, developing microchurch networks, and collaborating with other network directors around the world.
Getting Movement Out of Your Head and Into Your Church
To help you understand how we visualize the problem we face in the predominant church paradigm, and the solution we think we need to appropriate, here is the key visual we use to describe and frame the movement leaders process