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• Missional Mondays: Introducing Linda Bergquist February 8, 2010
  Today I want to introduce you to Linda Bergquist. She will be speaking at the missionSHIFT conference this summer. We are also excited to have her voice as a part of framing the Missional Manifesto. Linda and her husband Eric live in San Francisco, California. She is a New Church Starting Strategist and the co-author of "Church Turned Inside Out" f […]
• Building News! February 7, 2010
  The picture on top is our building before construction started. The one on the bottom is about one week into construction.This whole process is so intimidating. Construction has to be complete by our opening Sunday on March 14th...please pray!Featured on newchurches.com […]
• John Burke on What is Really Missional February 6, 2010
  John Burke of Gateway Community Church (Austin, TX) discussed what is really missional during Verge Conference's 5th session. Here is what he said: If your unchurched friends are not finding faith and becoming the church, you are not missional. You aren't really living on the mission of Jesus. If the world is not coming to Christ, can we really say […]
• Hugh Halter on the Power of Posture February 6, 2010
  Hugh Halter of Missio discussed the power of posture during Verge Conference's 5th session. Here is what he said: Posture is about nonverbal communication. It is a powerful thing. You must be missional and incarnational. Christian leaders living in excess is a posture problem. Think about how often you have done things nonverbally that make people unint […]
• Dave Ferguson on Creating an Apostolic Environment February 5, 2010
  Dave Ferguson of Community Christian Church (Naperville, IL) discussed creating an apostolic environment during Verge Conference's 3rd session. Here is what he said: Over and over again, God's own impulse to the lost is to go and to send. I think there is something stirring within us just to bring people in. A big part of this is to start apostolic […]
• Meet a Church Planter: Kevin Galloway in Michigan City, IN February 5, 2010
  Briefly describe your story of your call to plant a church I was called to help lead a large existing church into and through the deep change needed to help transform it into a missional church. What were the biggest challenges you faced in planting your church (and/or currently facing)? The biggest challenges faced were that of folks resisting changes to an […]
• Five Tests A Church Planter Will Face – Part Two of Two February 5, 2010
  Continuing yesterday's post… #3 – The Faith Test Hebrews 11:1 says that faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:6 says that without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God. SO…if your vision seems “impossible,” if failure is absolutely certain unless God somehow gets involved…then I would say that you are proba […]
• Stand Up ... and Get Out February 4, 2010
  Most of you know that in addition to starting a brand new church for the people who work on and live around the Las Vegas Strip, I've also been trying my hand at stand-up comedy. It began with open mic nights, and then last month I was asked to audition for a professional comedy troupe, and was chosen. Last week was my first time performing as a real co […]
• Five Tests A Church Planter WILL Face – Part One of Two February 4, 2010
  I love being able to chat with/dream with church planters…and one of the questions often asked by them is, “What is the one thing you would have wish you had known before you started?” My answer is simple…I wish that someone had told me that the decision to launch the church was actually going to be the easiest decision in the process, that during the next y […]
• Meet a Church Planter: Jared Ayers in Philadelphia, PA February 3, 2010
  Briefly describe your story of your call to plant a church I had been a staff pastor in mega church settings for 8 or 9 years. For the last couple of those years, several wise mentors and friends encouraged my wife Monica and I to consider planting churches in a center city context. We spent a couple of years praying, wrestling, discerning, seeking guidance, […]