Posts Tagged ‘Missional’

Missional v. Conventional – Who’s in and Who’s Out?

**RETRO POST** Originally posted last January 2009 with updates.**
There's endless debate going on in the blogosphere about the missional church vs. the 'attractional' or conventional church. 'Missional' supporters bash modern attractional churches for their seeker sensitive 'sit, be served, and consume' approach to church. Conversely, attractional churches offer their rebuttal questioning the effectiveness of missional [...]

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Preaching: An Impediment to the Missional Church?

Does a Post-Christendom World Care for 40 Minute Opinions Expositions?
Updated February 20th, 2010.
(**NOTE: For this post the terms preaching or sermon are distinctly referring to the act of one person talking at length about their perspective of a particular topic which is treated as the apex of the particular worship expression of a given church [...]

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When You Don’t Know What You Know

Attractional Church Pastor Slams Missional Church
I was debating on whether to toss out a response to some questionable comments made by an attractional/mega church pastor in the States. I don't know much about him nor his church, and simply be blogging gives the issue more attention, but the comments forced me to offer something brief.
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How to Prevent the Emergence of Cranky Organic Church Leaders

Mark Galli wrote a piece in Christianity Today musing about the future of the organic church movement. Although he's on the outside looking in (would have been better coming from someone who's actually participated in the movement), he does raise some interesting questions about the viability of the movement. I noticed in particular his thoughts [...]

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Doug Koop – Christian Week Video

Doug Koop, editor of Christian Week in Canada, offers his perspective on the emerging discussion surrounding the missional church. This is one of many videos on the missional church dialogue taken from the Renov8 congress in Calgary back in November.

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