By Brent Rood
The emerging church movement is not as new as it used to be. As with every movement, it has reached a point in its trajectory where as it matures, the ideals of the movement have given way to the reality of the movement. Theory birthed practice. The ideal was that good substance should replace good management. Gospel-centered preaching, authentic and transparent relationships, and incarnational ministry should replace synthetic programs, simplistic and linear discipleship processes, and cold task- driven business models. The emerging church set out to accomplish this and in many ways it has, but as the movement is maturing there is a large wave of disillusionment. On one hand, we are seeing the gospel restored to the pulpit. We are seeing true conversions taking place ...
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Matt Adair is replanter of Christ Community Church in Athens, Georgia. He wrote earlier this month on Embracing Your Unique Gifting and Leveraging it for Jesus’ Mission. Here he looks at the power source for the church’s employment of their gifts.
Entrepreneurial Aptitude - A Sacred Trust
Church planters are gluttons for punishment.
The spiritual soil of the cities we dig around in often feels like petrified clay. The first people to jump on the bandwagon as we plot world domination will most likely abandon us. The stress that comes from denominational agencies, our families and the deepest recesses of our souls is a force powerful enough to stop a charging rhino dead in his tracks.
And now I’m asking you to take another whack of the paddle by leading ...
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Acts 29 Boot Camps are church planting conferences open to the public that focus on the vision of church planting, calling of the planter, mandate to multiply churches and the theological foundation for gospel-centered church planting. The Seattle Boot Camp will be hosted by Mars Hill Church Ballard Campus in Seattle, WA
Boot Camp Location:
Mars Hill Church | Ballard Campus1401 NW Leary StSeattle, WA 98107
Cost: $149 EACH | $99 per couple for assessment
Boot Camp | Seattle September 29-30, 2010
Schedule subject to minor changes
Wednesday, September 29
8:00 am | Registration in Main Lobby9:00 am | Welcome & Worship9:30 am | Session #1: Overview: The Man, The Message, The Mission – Darrin Patrick10:30 am | Session #2: A Skilled, Shepherding, and ...
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At the recent Advance the Church Conference in Raleigh, NC, I sat down with Matt Carter, Pastor of Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, TX, to talk about something close to his heart–pastoring his family.
Matt shares some great counsel from the Scriptures and his own life to help us do just that.
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Pastor Mark Campbell | Lead pastor of Portico Church Arlington | Arlington, VA
Call to Plant
I came on the staff at Portico Church, an Acts29 Church plant in Charlottesville, VA, in 2005. The church consisted of our Lead Pastor, Chris Atwell and his family and myself and my wife and daughter. When I arrived, Chris was just finishing radiation therapy for tongue cancer. Needless to say, the road was going to be difficult, but God is faithful beyond our wildest imaginations.
After labor with minimal success for over a year, Chris was re-diagnosed with cancer in May of 2006 and had massive surgery to remove a large portion of his tongue and his lymph nodes. During the two months Chris was recovering, the church grew from 30 to 100. In the next two months, Portico would grow to ...
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