Tag: adaptive change
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How to train key leaders as disciples and leaders
Last week I joined staff and area directors from sixteen campuses, along with our executive coaches, for training in ministry building. It was the best training of my ministry career. One of the things that made it powerful was the synergy that emerged from sharing the experience with one of my direct reports and our […]
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You cannot have mission without discipleship
As we engage in mission, it is critical that our minds and hearts be connected God through a life of vital piety.
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Milbank’s critique of some missional church expressions
John Milbank offers a biting critique of Fresh Expressions, a missional church movement in the Church of England. As ever, Milbank’s words are insightful and a helpful challenge to some problematic elements of missional praxis. I’ve embedded the article below and recommend that you take a read. By way of a brief response to Milbank […]
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26 Time management lessons…for pastors
This series of slides contains a wealth of knowledge about how pastors can work more effectively. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to start thinking of pastors as “non-profit executives” (this is a part, not the essence, of our calling). The critical work of pastoring–prayer, study, counseling–requires time. And in order to make time […]
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Is missional the church’s Vietnam?
If the church insists that all we need to do is keep doing what we have been doing for the last fifty years, but harder or with better style, we will miss the great opportunity this present moment is giving us to move mission from the periphery of the life of the church to its very core.
Jeff Gissing 