Geoffrey Holsclaw
Ok, yes, it might sound extreme. But let’s be sober-minded. As Todd Hiestand (and the comments) notes in his great post, “10 Suggestions/Thoughts on Bi-vocational Ministry”, being a missional bi-vocational pastor is hard, it takes commitment, it takes faith. But in this post-Christian context (or at least outside of the ever shrinking Christendom pockets), the […]
Evangelism In The Missional Church: How The Kingdom Breaks In Among Us Missional Learning Commons 2014 November 7 @ 7:30pm – November 8 @ 3:00pm | $25 (Wait for the 1:08 mark to learn what Fitch really thinks of Geoff, and evangelism…) This year’s Missional Learning Commons will focus on the oft forgotten member of the 5-fold gifts: […]
It seems there was a bit of confusion and concern about proposing communal discernment. And that’s OK, it is a difficult thing to understand and from what I can tell it is even less often practiced. On top of all of this are the countless instances of spiritual abuse, if not outright physical and sexual […]
The one of the things, several years ago, that concerned me about the Emerging Church Conversation was that for all its concern for the body (exhibited in holistic medicine, organic food, and even body prayer), I saw a gaping exclusion of, dare I say, the literal ministry of healing prayer (not of just emotional healing) […]