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 »
Coaching for Discipleship
Posted in Discipleship, Leadership, Storyline on September 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Storyline’s first Coaching Group had its initial meeting last Wednesday night. This Coaching Group represents an evolution in my approach to discipleship and leadership development within our community. I used to wonder how to describe myself and the work I do with Storyline (see here for an old blog post about Church Starter vs. Spiritual [...]
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 1 of 3
Posted in Adaptability, Church Planting, Leadership, Life Change, Prayer, Story of God, Storyline on March 22, 2011 | 5 Comments »
When Storyline began, we committed ourselves to live out a value for adaptability in mission, knowing that times would come when we need to adapt and flex because of changing circumstances. I’m so thankful that this value has not remained at the aspirational level. We have indeed practiced it. For instance: We thought we were [...]
Storylines: Darcey
Posted in Life Change, Storyline on May 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
It may seem strange after watching this video, but Darcey’s story is one of the most important stories Storyline can tell. Her story demonstrates that our community belongs to people who have questions. People who have doubts. People who don’t have it all figured out yet. People who are on a journey. In fact, Darcey’s [...]
Storyline Turns 2
Posted in Storyline on April 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Hope you’ll join us for our second birthday party! We’ll even have cake and balloons! Click on the invite below for more details from the Storyline website.
Open House Update
Posted in Storyline, Videos, Worship Gathering on February 12, 2009 | 11 Comments »
What a great weekend! It’s almost surreal that Open House has come and gone. We had anticipated and planned for the day for many months. 120 people showed up to celebrate with us. Some came from our partnering churches and resource organization. Some responded to the postcard invitations we sent out into Uptown. Still others [...]
Open House
Posted in Church Planting, Storyline on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s hard to believe we’ve been at work in Uptown for almost a year. God has been more than good to us. We want to invite all of you to join us for Storyline’s Open House event, a way we’re “opening our doors” to many of our friends. We’ve intended for this event to serve [...]
New Church Shower
Posted in South Mac, Storyline on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A couple years ago I heard a great idea for launching a worship gathering in Stan Granberg’s Church Planting class at Harding Graduate School: throw a baby (church) shower! So that’s what we’re going to do. We want to give our supporters a tangible way to help us start our worship gathering, much the same [...]
Be Fruitful and Multiply
Posted in Church Planting, House Churches, Mission, Reproduction, Storyline on September 15, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Starting a new church is certainly full of challenge and struggle. In the words of Earl Creps: “Church planting is the art of surviving disappointment.” I’ve lived that statement on more than one occasion. At the same time, new churches also provide times of intense joy and excitement. Just as we marveled when Ryan was [...]
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