Storyline commissioned three Partners in Mission this weekend at our Community Gathering. Partners in Mission are those who want to make Storyline “their church” by aligning themselves with Storyline’s values (dependence on God; mission; life change; genuine relationships) and practices (mission; confession; devotion; community; generosity). Partners in Mission prepare for partnership through Storyline DNA (orientation [...]
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New Partners in Mission
Posted in Discipleship, Lifestyle, Mission, Storyline on January 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Post-Congregational Church
Posted in Church, Mission, Models on December 20, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Reggie McNeal has a new book out that I’d like to recommend called Missional Communities: The Rise of the Post-Congregational Church. McNeal’s purpose in this book is to describe from high altitude the growing phenomenon in North America he calls “missional communities,” an alternative expression of church in our time. The phrase “missional communities” suggests the [...]
“Prayer Drive” Your Neighborhood
Posted in Mission, Prayer on August 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Tonight several of us from the Rockhurst Church in Storyline got together and took our kiddos for a “prayer drive” of our neighborhoods. Perhaps you’ve heard of a “prayer walk,” where groups walk through a particular area and pray for God’s blessings on the people who live there. “Prayer Drive” is the Texas version of [...]
How Storyline is Changing – Part 3 of 3
Posted in Church Planting, Mission, Reproduction, Storyline on April 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Part one addressed how Storyline is changing in its approach to discipleship. Part two addressed how Storyline is changing structurally. This final post in this series addresses how Storyline is changing in regard to starting new churches and training church planters. My calling into church planting is not to plant a single church. It’s to [...]
How Storyline is Changing – Part 2 of 3
Posted in Adaptability, Church Planting, House Churches, Institutional / Organic, Mission on March 29, 2011 | 7 Comments »
The first post in this series addressed how Storyline does discipleship. This post addresses how Storyline is structured. I’ve always struggled to find literature and resources for methodology and structure that spoke to Storyline’s context. As a network of house churches that meets all together for a monthly gathering and every remaining weekend for house [...]
Light the Night Walk – Team Salomea
Posted in Justice, Mission on October 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Storyline, the Paezs, and friends got together this past Sunday night for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Light the Night Walk. We walked on behalf of the Paezs’ three year-old daughter, Salomea, who is in treatment for leukemia. Team Salomea collectively raised more than $4,400 for the Walk. For Storyline, this was a special night [...]
Starting New Churches
Posted in Church Planting, Mission, Mission Alive, Reproduction on October 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One of Storyline’s values is reproducibility. We acknowledge that healthy things reproduce: healthy plants drop seeds that create new plants; healthy animals mate and give life to new animals; healthy humans reproduce and give birth to babies. That healthy things reproduce is true all throughout God’s kingdom, particularly in the church. Healthy followers of Jesus [...]
MISSIO DEI Journal
Posted in Missio Dei Journal, Mission on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first issue of Missio Dei journal has arrived! Last summer I started working with several Harding Grad friends – Greg McKinzie (missionary in Peru), Nathan Bills (ThD Student @ Duke), Jason Whaley (missionary in Australia) and Danny Reese (missionary in Angola) – to create a journal that would make a contribution to the missional [...]
House Churches on Mission
Posted in Community Connection, Justice, Mission on July 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Below is an article by Patrick Cone, one of Storyline’s house church leaders (for the Victor Church), relaying some of the work they’ve done to get involved in the community and work for justice. I love the way working for justice attracts and connects us to those who are searching for God. —– As stated [...]
Engaging our Neighborhood
Posted in Community Connection, Mission on June 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Storyline hosted its annual City on a Hill retreat on May 21-22. The retreat is designed to equip people who are interested in participating in God’s mission to bless and restore the world. The focus of Friday night is, “What is God’s mission?” The focus of Saturday is “What do missional people do?” We answer [...]
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