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missional living // part the fourth

In actuality, I think there is only one answer to “why more people don’t live missionally,” but we’ll get to that later. Here’s an idea I’m kicking around right now about the reason why. Bear with me:
In Exodus, God leads the people out of Egypt. As they journey in the wilderness, on day one, they [...]

missional living // part the third

I really don’t know how long these posts are going to go on, but I’m going to keep throwing them out there for now. I’ve finished reading Deep Church, but I keep running back through it because there was so much good stuff in there. Here’s a quote from this mornings review:
Out greatest priority, particularly [...]

missional living // part the second

The gospel should affect us. Every part of us. As soon as I disallow this, I quickly forget my sin and my saviour’s sacrifice.
I wrote a post the other day about segregating Christ to a corner of my life. For a year and a half before I joined the staff at Cornerstone Church in Auburn, [...]

missional // living

First, if you’re tracking with the conversation on the ‘missional church’ or ‘missional living’ then some/much of what you read below might be familiar to you. I’m just pulling together the conversations I’ve been having and the teachings that have been shaping me. Second, you might suggest, ‘missional’ is just a hip term for living [...]

deep church // the third way

I’m reading a book right now called Deep Church. I’m loving it. Its playing with my mind and my assumptions of the traditional church as well as the emergent church. One of the issues dealt with in the book is how we allow to people to be a part of the community of believers. It [...]

family // this week

On the last blog post I received a comment that said, “What does living missionally even mean?” (or something like that). I immediately started thinking. Perhaps this concept is just foreign to a lot of people and therefore the reason why more people aren’t living this way. So, we’ll address this in the next blog [...]

living missionally // or not

On Wednesday of last week I had the opportunity to sit in a room with about 20 very missionally minded people and have a conversation with Don Golden, co-author of Jesus Wants To Save Christians. It was a pretty weighty conversation that revolved mostly around our theology. My spirit was wrestling. God is clearly taking [...]

insecurity // my hope

Removing a mask. I struggle with insecurity. There. It’s out there.
After processing this for quite some time, I think it comes from several places.
The first is that I have a very works based mentality when it comes to relationships because of my understanding growing up of how I related to God. I felt like if [...]

if // listen

Haiti. Can’t quit thinking about it. Can’t stop my mind from running about what will be next. Hope that this stays in front of people and that we don’t go back to normal. I think about things to joke about with people or things to say to people, but it seems more often than not [...]

Haiti // needs an answer

A quick update about Cornerstone Church’s response to Haiti.
1) We are giving financially to the situation because that’s one way to immediately help, though it is only a start. More on this at a later time. For now, know that yesterday we focused hard as a body of believers to be responsible in this first [...]