…is missional discipleship aimed at three target audiences:
Prospective Missionaries, Missionaries, and Leaders.
We are necessarily expanding our focus beyond leaders to assure a convergence of missional discipleship across an entire body and to equip leaders to replicate execution of this curriculum. The media and delivery systems are diverse (Prezi, video, interactive exercises, toolboxes) and not all under a single printed cover to fit the learning styles and practical needs of a generation that thrives on visual sound bites, often taken in on the run of doing life and ministry. So while sometimes we sit for more traditional training, we emphasize more interactive, experiential elements and apprenticeship. . . . → Read More: Missional Living Curriculum Expanding
Do you appreciate that as leaders, you are stunningly unique? …and so are the people God planted in your congregations or ministries! You are perfectly ‘designed’ for significant roles in the Kingdom together. We offer this web seminar for your congregation to discover their individual and corporate ministry identities and callings. Several ‘exercises’ are included to develop clarity on who you all are, not in terms of accomplishments, but who God made you to be for His purposes. This is very powerful knowledge both individually and corporately in understanding your roles in ministry and your part in Kingdom building! When you look across your team, you will discover diversity that . . . → Read More: Discovering Ministry Identities and Callings
What would you think if the practices and lifestyles of individuals and entire churches reflected being both ‘the gathered and sent people of God’ ? What if the Church reflected the missionary nature of the Triune God?…the Father sent the Son, and the Father and the Son sent the Spirit, and the Father and the Son and the Spirit sent the Church. Remember Jesus was sent, but also is sending: “As the Father has sent me, I am sending you” (John 20:21). This would be what the missional Church is about: God’s instrument sent into the world to participate in His redemptive mission.
Seeking Apostolic Genius for Renewal of the Church
Activating Six Critical Missional DNA Elements
Sixty percent or more of the population will not likely be reached by the prevailing models. Solutions will involve the activation of all of Jesus’ people as transformative agents in his Kingdom, relying upon six critical elements of historical missional movements described in “The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church” by Alan Hirsch, Strand Publishing, Australia, 2006.
Future Travelers is an R&D / “skunk works” style initiative that is trying to pave the way for the church of the future with . . . → Read More: Seeking Apostolic Genius