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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 [...]

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Church of Two

Posted in Dependence, Formation Groups, Life Change, Models, Spiritual Formation on April 8, 2010 | 5 Comments »

I’ve been enriched in the past few weeks by an emerging structure for spiritual formation called Church of Two. Church of Two – and you can read more about it at the CO2 Blog or Lk10resources.com – provides a rhythm for listening to God and others. It revolves around two spiritual practices: contemplation (listening to [...]

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House Church Gatherings

Posted in Church, House Churches, Models, Values on May 27, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Our house church gatherings are at the heart of who we are as a church. Church to us is less of an institution than it is a web of relationships formed around a common purpose. Church isn’t a place we go to; it’s a community to which we belong. The way of Jesus is a [...]

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National Community Church

Posted in Church Planting, Models, Next Generation on December 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I wandered across the website of National Community Church through a friend’s blog. It caught my attention for several reasons: 1) over 70% of its participants are single 20-somethings; 2) nearly 70% of NCC people were previously unchurched or dechurched (i.e., grew up with religion but left it behind); 3) they meet in movie theaters [...]

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Circle of Hope

Posted in Church Planting, Mission, Models on December 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »

One of the most frequent questions I get about our church planting project is, “What will it look like?” Church for the next generation will certainly take different shapes and forms than that of existing established churches. My first answer is almost always, “To be honest, we’re trying to be good missionaries, so we have [...]

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