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How do we disciple within existing bodies of Believers – churches, whatever the form – to establish the DNA of disciples, who make disciples, who make disciples? When discussing movements, establishing new communities is emphasized often to the exclusion of conversations about what we do with existing communities. Working within existing churches is very...
It isn’t that the existing bodies of Believers in the Western World do not bear fruit – they do – it’s that the fruit they bear often does not have the capacity to become a fruit-bearing vine. Our bodies produce a higher volume of seedless grapes than grape that have seeds. A major part...
When you say ‘church,’ most people have a picture in their head of what church is. That picture is really a snapshot of a moment of time in the life of a particular body of Believers in a particular culture. ’What is Church?’ is a difficult question because church is organic…what it looks like...
Talking about church isn’t easy. In the USA, we have a culture that has a picture of what church is and opinions about what it should be. Our conversations about church already have a cultural context. The accuracy of that context is really not the point…the context is a reality we have to acknowledge...
Adjectives can be helpful. I admit it, I like knowing the culture of a gathering of believers, especially if it is my first time to be with that gathering. Words like ‘Baptist’ and ‘Simple’ help me understand the culture of the people in the gathering and that is nice. But when we set out...
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