Geoffrey Holsclaw
(originally posted on Missio Alliance) Imagine this preposterous exchange. At a party, I enter a conversation when I hear that someone else is a Giants fan. “I love the Giants,” I say. “Yes, I love how the Giants hit,” comes the response. “And how they get after the ball,” he adds. “I really like their […]
Does the Reformation though help us engage in mission? Does typical protestant theology have a power problem and a context problem which work against mission? And what does it matter anyway? PLEASE WRITE US A REVIEW AND SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss two different problems facing Protestantism and […]
What does complimentarianism and equalitarianism have to do with church planting? Is there a third way concerning women in ministry? And what is the role of the Holy Spirit in all this. Fitch and Holsclaw tackle the tangled issues of openness to the Holy Spirit, openness to women in ministry, and “opening” a new […]
Dread? Fear? Hope? Optimism? All words people are feeling about the current presidential primaries. But the truth is, whoever is in the White House is not the savior, nor the destroyer, of the world. Fitch and Holsclaw talk about different options for understanding politics (the Lutheran “Two-Kingdoms” view and the “Kuyperian” view), and ask […]
“Tools of Engagement: Church, Incarnation, and Exile” Join with Michael Frost as he casts a vision for the church as an Exile people practicing Incarnation. Being away from our home as Exiles tells us where we are. And practicing Incarnation tells us who we are. The intersection of Exile and Incarnation reveals how to be […]
“Enjoy the Show!” and other things that shouldn’t be said about a worship service. David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about whether 1) a worship service is a central, peripheral, or complimentary part of a church (plant), and 2) if it matters whether people come to your worship service or not. What ya Reading? […]
What is the core of discipleship? Does information + action = discipleship? Is there something missing from this equation? Fitch and Holsclaw discuss the important aspect of “seeing yourself in another story” in the process of discipleship. Only in the conversion of our imagination, immersed in a different story and seeing the world and […]
Have we lost the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr? Have we assimilated him into the American Dream, losing the Dream he had for America in the process? David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw sit down with local pastor Pierre Keys and student-activist Josiah Daniels to talk about the past and future of the Civil […]
What makes your community tick? What is the glue holding you together? Is it what you THINK of God or what you DO with God? Kicking off the New Year David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about how church’s can no longer merely gather around common beliefs but around common practices (practices that promise […]