Having kids in the Life Team meeting can be a challenge. They learn on a different level than adults. Their short attention spans make them antsy. Even though it can be uncomfortable at times, including them in real church communicates to children that they are full fledged Christ followers. At our most recent meeting in … Continue reading On the Front Row
More Farmers
Neil Cole astutely observes that when Jesus instructed his disciples to pray for more workers they were the only believers at the time. The request was not that God would stir the hearts of apathetic church goers but rather that God would capture the hearts and minds of people who were yet to believe the … Continue reading More Farmers
A Field to Plant
Years of life and ministry in a traditional church context had atrophied me into a missional paraplegic. Strapped to my institutional chair, I looked out into a wider world longing to engage with it yet finding no means to do so. When I read about the "Pockets of People" concept in Neil Cole's Organic Church, it … Continue reading A Field to Plant
The 5 Harvest Needs
As a person with an apostolic bent, I traffic in strategies. I don't just want to know that I'm supposed to go out into the world and make disciples, I want to know how and I want to show others how. The 5 PoP's which I first encountered while reading Organic Church by Neil Cole, immediately … Continue reading The 5 Harvest Needs
The Best Reason Not to Evangelize
Here it is: People are a mess. It's a temptation to stay within our small circle and not borrow trouble. I actually knew a pastor who readily admitted that the messiness of broken people was the reason he did not evangelize. But we've not been given that option. Jesus left the only ideal environment to … Continue reading The Best Reason Not to Evangelize
Pleasant Street is Gone 