Tag: commission
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Disseminating Diaphoris: Toward a Participatory Christian Education
Folks, this Diaphoric Participation—where the student actively lives into union with Christ, not just learns about it—is an intriguing remedy for our overly Platonic schools. Thoughts?
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Relational Space: Navigating Everything Jesus Commanded Us to Do
– Father Son / – Self Other / – Kingdom World // This is how divergence ultimately leads to converge and transformation (and vice versa — if we follow hard enough)…
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A Postmodern Dwelling: Bethel’s Gospel to the Pirahã (ChatGPT on Missions)
Ana: I’ve been preparing for years. I studied anthropology and Indigenous oral traditions because I wanted to understand how people experience truth outside of written frameworks. And I’ve spent time in cultures where trust and relationship matter more than doctrine or structure. I believe the only way to reach the…
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9/30 Limerick: Co-Mission-Ed
Q. What’s the trait you value most about yourself? A. My willingness to be co-educated by Christ into His mission
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3/2 Limericks: By His Side
Since Jesus called us His Bride / We long to be by His side // Yet there’s so much more to this vow…
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TGR-S4E2: ChatScaling
This week on The Great Reset the Biastes* (and Biasta) try the “Critical Community Protocol” to address an urgent local problem, which might also solve an important global problem. Question: What would it take to focus the whole Body of Christ on fulfilling His Commission and Commandments, by prioritizing the…
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Fixing Saint Paul, Scene 1: Awakening Barnabas
The Story Acts 13:13 Paul and his companions then left Paphos by ship for Pamphylia, landing at the port town of Perga. There John Mark left them and returned to Jerusalem. The Backstory Scene 1: Awakening “Barnabas? Are you awake?” Barnabas rolled over on his cot to gaze at the…
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Toward a Discipling Church
Vision Becoming, Making, and Gathering Disciples of Jesus Who do Better than Us
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Make Us Like Jesus: Discipleship in Five Syllables
A proposed process for fully fleshing-out the Six Syllable Gospel: as part of an accidental series on Childlike Theology: Join together to ask God to make us like Jesus. Interpret everything that happens as God answering that prayer. There is no step 3.
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PRO Church
I belive the primary reason the church in America is not impacting the culture is that we expend most of our time, energy, and money doing many things badly instead of the right things well. We are amateurs competing against professional culture-makers. To address this imbalance, I believe the church needs to…
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LEAD! B.9 From Sloth to Fruitfulness
The dangers of laziness, and the rewards of perseverance.
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LEAD! A.5 God’s Tri-Unity
In Which We Discover The Persons Who Make up the Godhead, and How They Relate to Us We believe in one God, consisting of one substance — one name, one identity, and one character — sometimes called the Godhead. Yet, that name is expressed through three distinct persons, as illustrated…
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LEAD! A.4 God’s Character
[Renumbering so we can start at 1, instead of 0] In Which We Discover What God Looks Like, And Why Moses Wants to See More of Him Continuing our discussion of God’s name — which we are supposed to be baptized into — we turn from the incommunicable aspects of…
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LEAD! Syllabus for “Theological Foundations”
In thinking about it, I realized I should take my Curriculum one step further, and actually identify the passages and key learnings for each lesson. Not only will this help ensure I’m on the same page as my pastor, but it would enable others to write some of the lessons…
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LEAD! A.1 God’s Word
[Based on feedback, this study will actually become the first lesson, prior to God’s Commission] In Which We Discover How God Speaks to Us, and Why We Ought to Listen to Him [Updated Sunday, August 3rd]
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LEAD! A.2 God’s Commission
In Which We Discover God’s Call For Us As Leaders, And What Theology Has To Do With It
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ESS is More: Essential Skills for Serving
For the third part of my trilogy on leadership development, I want to focus on practical skills. Here’s my short list (twelve, again) of the key abilities I believe leaders need to cultivate. Anything you would add or subtract?
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