Comments on: Multiplying Missional Communities http://www.goodmanson.com/church/multiplying-missional-communities/ Church Technology, Internet Ministry & Church Planting Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Triperspectivalism, Leadership, and Church Planting « Provocations & Pantings http://www.goodmanson.com/church/multiplying-missional-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-209358 Triperspectivalism, Leadership, and Church Planting « Provocations & Pantings Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:41:53 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2008-03/15/multiplying-missional-communities/#comment-209358 [...] Triperspectival Leadership Diagram * The Church as Movement – Organizing Decentralization * Multiplying Missional Communities * Organic Movement – Reverse Church Planting * How Multiperspectivalism Shapes Church [...] [...] Triperspectival Leadership Diagram * The Church as Movement – Organizing Decentralization * Multiplying Missional Communities * Organic Movement – Reverse Church Planting * How Multiperspectivalism Shapes Church [...]

]]> By: D. Goodmanson http://www.goodmanson.com/church/multiplying-missional-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-168552 D. Goodmanson Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:03:59 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2008-03/15/multiplying-missional-communities/#comment-168552 Stew- I agree. What we are documenting is the intentionality toward leading missional communities and their replication. Much of what does happen is not as predictable as the organized charts we are presenting. For example, I met with one guy who recently became a part of our community and he ministers to people from Sudan in San Diego. He already has a community. So instead of going through our process how do we come alongside what God is already doing? Its all part of the beautiful mess we live in. Stew- I agree. What we are documenting is the intentionality toward leading missional communities and their replication. Much of what does happen is not as predictable as the organized charts we are presenting. For example, I met with one guy who recently became a part of our community and he ministers to people from Sudan in San Diego. He already has a community. So instead of going through our process how do we come alongside what God is already doing? Its all part of the beautiful mess we live in.

]]> By: stew http://www.goodmanson.com/church/multiplying-missional-communities/comment-page-1/#comment-168529 stew Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:26:13 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2008-03/15/multiplying-missional-communities/#comment-168529 Drew - this is a GREAT post that has some great ideas about multiplying missional communities. Our vision at the Austin Stone (www.austinstone.org) is to build a movement of missional communities, which obviously involves a heavy emphasis on multiplying these communities. I had one community last semester that multiplied into 8 communities - and I have 1 right now that is about to multiply into 5 new communities. We have close to 160 missional communities, which, I have to admit, is both a blessing and a curse. What I have found is that it is rarely as structured as the chart seems to imply. Sometimes God raises up apprentice leaders that start new communities, sometimes He brings someone to Christ who immediately starts a community with their friends, sometimes people already have their community and we just help them make it missional. It's unbelievably messy, especially when you add in sin, mistakes, apathy, indifference, goats and wolves. Have you found this to be the case as well as you have applied your chart to the communities you lead? I just hope I'm not the only one who, when it comes to missional communities, feels like I am stirring a pot of barf sometimes... messy, smelly, etc. Drew – this is a GREAT post that has some great ideas about multiplying missional communities. Our vision at the Austin Stone (www.austinstone.org) is to build a movement of missional communities, which obviously involves a heavy emphasis on multiplying these communities. I had one community last semester that multiplied into 8 communities – and I have 1 right now that is about to multiply into 5 new communities. We have close to 160 missional communities, which, I have to admit, is both a blessing and a curse.

What I have found is that it is rarely as structured as the chart seems to imply. Sometimes God raises up apprentice leaders that start new communities, sometimes He brings someone to Christ who immediately starts a community with their friends, sometimes people already have their community and we just help them make it missional. It’s unbelievably messy, especially when you add in sin, mistakes, apathy, indifference, goats and wolves.

Have you found this to be the case as well as you have applied your chart to the communities you lead? I just hope I’m not the only one who, when it comes to missional communities, feels like I am stirring a pot of barf sometimes… messy, smelly, etc.

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