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Posts made in November, 2007
I spent the morning with Eugene, who heads up our missional communities at Kaleo. One of the challenges we've faced as a church centers on discipling people and seeing leaders emerge to give their life to be on mission. The following idea struck me from our conversation:
We often need structures to overcome our lack...
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Last night, David Fairchild and I spent the evening with Bob Roberts. He had just returned from Hanoi to speak at a conference here in San Diego. He laid out a vision for how he believes churches will truly change culture, grabbing a piece of paper and pen he began to draw different diagrams of how this connected. ...
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Session: Things that make (Steve Timmis) go 'Hmmmm…'
The first thing that makes Mr. Timmis go hmmm is the fascination with new ways of 'doing church'. It doesn't take much to see a number of new books, blogs and conferences speak to the changing nature of the church. (In fact, it's a...
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Session: Elders & the Local Church
One of the sessions Steve Timmis led at the Total Church conference centered around the challenge to plant missional churches and develop leaders fast enough to plant additional churches. The Crowded House, Timmis' said, like many churches is leader hungry. One of the Achilles...
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I returned last week from the Total Church conference in England. (I wanted to post earlier, but was having some technical difficulty). In attendance there were 50 church planters from around the world, many were hybrids, traditional churches looking to become more missional or house church movements. The central...
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