Geoffrey Holsclaw

  Is your church pushing your pastor toward a fall like those found on Ashley Madison?  What does the Ashley Madison scandal tell us about our churches? In the aftermath of Ashly Madison, churches began picking up the pieces after their pastors fell (see these posts by Ed Stetzer). But David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw take […]

  A worship “experience”? A time for “teaching”? Is the time on Sundays for our heads or our hearts, or something else? Fitch and Holsclaw talk cast a different vision for the worship gathering as a time of corporate spiritual formation. The best way to support “Theology on Mission” is to write us an iTunes […]

We don’t live in an oral culture. Not even a written culture. We live in a visual culture. So why preach from a text in an image driven culture? What good can a Sunday sermon have when everyone is bombarded by other messages all week long? What is preaching for anyway? With these and many other […]

“A justification for our own sorry existence as evangelicals.” Or, why We don’t fit in anywhere. Dave Fitch and I make a first attempt at articulating another way, a third way, for theology and mission for evangelicals, beyond the conservative/progressive dichotomy. We talk about some historical roots for this dichotomy and hint toward an alternative […]

Is being a bi-vocational pastor a necessary evil or a positive opportunity? In the new episode of “Theology on Mission” David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about bi-vocational ministry, how it is an opportunity to rethink pastoral vocation and church ministry, all wrapped in personal stories. Follow and Subscribe: Please follow “Theology on Mission” on […]

Here is the complete series: 1, 2, 3a, 3b, 4, 5, 6. Taking our cue from the angelic announcement that Jesus is “Emmanuel”, God with us, we have been asking about the “Presence of God” from Genesis to Revelation, and how this help us understand the story of God and our mission within it. Last […]

“Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.”  ~This is a LIE. I never say this to my boys at home.  And I never say this to members in our church. The truth is, words do hurt. They wound and break us just as much as they heal and build […]