Category: Mission

New Jon Shirley Album in 2012? Well….

I feel like every day someone asks me if I have plans to record a new album. Heaven Hear Us released in 2006. All of a sudden, it’s 2012. It’s a worthwhile question without an easy answer. Am I still a recording artist? How often do you have to make a record to still be one? [...]

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Songs That Cut Through Cultural Cynicism

We are doing a series on the book of Acts at the GN right now. It’s been pretty rockin. I’ve recognized one distinguishing characteristic of the early followers of Jesus – they were incredibly tenacious. By that, I mean they clearly had a message, and they weren’t afraid to bring it. Their witness was so [...]

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This is Where You Come In!

We wrapped up the Sentralized conference this weekend. What an amazing time. God is certainly doing amazing things. So many people left with their hearts burdened for the world. Such evidence that God was at work. His heart is burdened the same way. I had a chance to gather the worship leaders for a brief [...]

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What is the Missional “Context”?

I promised last week that I would attempt to answer this question: “What is the missional context?” It only matters because I’ve been dropping that phrase a lot in the past few posts – and I hope to finally get to talking about worship in your missional context, and mine – so I’m doing some [...]

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What is “Missional”?

At this point in the conversation we’ve been having it’s probably worth it to go back to do some interpreting. For instance, what is “missional”? Add to that, what is the missional context? Great questions, eh? I’ll attempt to answer the context question next week. First, to clarify some confusion on the subject – missional [...]

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You Know You Have a Discipleship Problem When….

Reposting this from Mike Breen’s blog earlier today. This explains the need to awaken the “missional impulse” that lies latent in Jesus followers today. This will set the context for more to come… By Mike Breen: “Here are some recent stats from the Barna Research group: 4,000 churches will close this year Only 1,500 churches [...]

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Covenant and Kingdom – a theology of significance and adventure

This conversation has been the fruit of all the stuff that has become somewhat of a “game changer” for me over the years. For a while, I’d been seeing how my gifts both encouraged the body of Christ to experience a relationship with Jesus, as well, at times I could see how certain ways that [...]

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