Geoffrey Holsclaw
Evangelism in the Missional Church: How the Kingdom Breaks in Among Us NOVEMBER, 7TH-8TH This year’s Missional Learning Commons will focus on the oft forgotten member of the 5-fold gifts for the church (Eph. 5): the Evangelists. While the Attractional Church focuses mostly on Pastors and Teachers, the Missional Church often gravitates toward the Apostles and Prophets. But what of the Evangelists? On Nov. […]
For the poor you will always have with you, and you can show kindness to them whenever you wish: but you will not always have me. (Mark 14:7) From crude realism to hopeless resignation, this quote from Jesus is confusing at best and disheartening at worst. What? So poverty and inequality are just a fact […]
The middle can be messy and misunderstood. It can also be apathetic and atrophying. It all depends on whether this “middle” is merely ignoring and hiding from important issues, or taking a reasoned stand in a different place. A recent study by Baylor University suggests that the “messy middle” among evaneglicals is growing, specifically in regard […]
(Luigi Anzivino via Compfight) So right now I’m in the middle of a grading wave for Northern Seminary (Missional Leadership), but soon I’ll be posting again regularly on various and sundry topics. I.e.: The Problem of Evil Where is Jesus? And What about the Spirit? The Word of God **What topics would you like addressed?***
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 […]
(Reposted from last year). Last week I attended a conference in D.C, missing the Ash Wednesday service at our congregation in Chicago. Instead I attended one offered by the conference. The service was beautiful and well thought out. Some words were offered by Dallas Willard, but the only phrase I remember is when he said, […]
Too often the efforts of church planting and evangelism in unreached places, goes by the term ‘missions.’ But when a group of believers is sufficiently gathered, we then say that a ‘church’ has been established. The linking of terms in a before-after type of relationship has often been propagated by mission agencies themselves. But is […]