Category Archives: The Gospel

Geography and Theology are Biblical Bedfellows-Eugene Peterson

In the Christian imagination, where you live gets equal billing with what you believe. Geography and theology are the biblical bedfellows. Everything that the creator does, and therefore everything that we do, since we are his creatures and can hardly … Continue reading

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What does the church look like Monday-Saturday?

Missional Community – Luke’s Story from The Austin Stone on Vimeo.

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Incarnational Presence in Suburbia

The excerpt below was taken from “A Mortgage, a Motor-Mower and a Mission: Following Jesus into Suburbia” by Simon Carey Holt. I would consider this required reading for anyone who is attempting to follow Jesus in suburbia. In my view, the … Continue reading

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Making Your Neighbors Your Family-Jeff Vanderstelt

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Jimmy Needham-Clear the Stage

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Hunger Games: Protecting Our Kids?

Just got back from seeing The Hunger Games. Loved it! One of the primary storylines is that there is a group of affluent people (the Capitol) who live the good life while people in outlying districts live in severe poverty.  What … Continue reading

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Mission and Stability in a Transient Culture

My argument here is rather simple, stability is the pre-requisite to greater mission. We can’t have one without the other. “Stability” in the sense that we stay in one place, with one group of people, for a long period of … Continue reading

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The Hole in our Discipleship

“Your system is perfectly designed to get the results you’re getting.” There are a few primary ways that discipleship happens in the context of church: Sunday Morning Worship Small Groups Ministry Programs One On One In these different discipleship venues … Continue reading

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Deprogramming Cultural Christians

For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died; and he died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for him … Continue reading

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The Greatest Challenge to Missional Community

We have lived inside a caricature of the church for so long that we fail to know what it means to be the body of Jesus Christ. People in a Missional Community share a few important things in common. 1)  … Continue reading

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