You Are Called

And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” - Matthew 4:19

“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” - Matthew 28:19-20

We are all called to ministry.

Dreaming of Something New

I know that I haven't blogged in a while. We've been very busy building our new home and getting it ready for launching a new missional endeavor. I really appreciate everyone who has dropped by the blog over the last few months. I'm hoping to post more regularly and wanted to kick things off with some ideas that my wife and I have been thinking through the last few months.

The Need for Local Missions in Hometowns

We launched our MC (missional community) a few weeks ago and it has been a great experience so far. Our little tribe is going through The Tangible Kingdom Primer (TKP) by Hugh Halter and Matt Smay. To be honest, developing missional habits has been a little tougher than I had imagined. It really makes you seriously think about some issues that I thought had been set in stone from my traditional church background. It's good to grow, but it can also cause healthy growing pains.

Being Safe Will Kill Us

Alan Hirsch - Are You Stuck In A Rut? from Verge Network on Vimeo.

You can't be creative unless you risk failure. And we will never be able to achieve anything great if we don't take the risk. Let's step out and do something so crazy that God would be ashamed not to show up on our behalf.

Better Neighborhoods

Just like cells make up the body so neighborhoods make up a city. Think about that, if a cell becomes bad (cancer) it can bring down the whole body. Opposite of that, a good neighborhood can bring up the life of the whole city.

Needing some good ideas to help better your neighborhood? Or just want to meet your neighbors without seeming creepy?

Here's an article I ran across from GOOD magazine entitled: The GOOD Guide to Better Neighborhoods: A Neighborhood Manifesto

Defining our Missional Community

We're about a week away from launching our MC here in Ada. Our church has a great resource that we use to organize and communicate with each other called Church Community Builder. I used this tool to put up a description of our MC and when & where we get together each week.

Our church's vision is to move people in four direction: Upward, Outward, Inward, & Forward. I've integrated this vision into our vision for our MC.

Below is the description of our MC. check it out and let me know what you think.