Month: June 2013

Someone recently pointed out to me that it was others, not Jesus, who referred to him as a “friend of sinners.”  He never used those kinds of labels in referring to the people-in-need that he hung out with. In fact, Jesus did not classify them at all, except perhaps when he called them ‘sheep without…

Videos and More Running around Africa earlier this month, I ran into some of the people from I Am Second who are regularly doing good things in the least likely places. If you are not familiar with their videos and materials, this stuff is good and useful in every context for reaching, discipling, and gathering…

Discipleship is critical. Discipleship is the means by which it all happens. Unless we get discipleship right, whatever we intend to achieve through the rest of what we achieve in missional movement is never going to happen. If we fail in discipleship, it fails”Alan Hirsch. Defined correctly, I would even go further: Discipleship is the…

Imagine all of the creative energy that has gone into developing church programs and presentations over the past 30 years: music, dramatic presentations, video clips and movies, stadium events, amazing venues, stunning programs, and much more. Now, imagine that we take all of that creative, entrepreneurial energy and turn it loose outward on the needs…