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Jesus told his disciples, “For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them” (Matthew 18:20). The gathering together of believers in Jesus Name is one of the most common structures of worship. However, it is missing a most exciting and important theological lesson from Scripture: God’s Presence. The church has […]
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Joel B. Green is an author and professor working in the area of biblical interpretation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Seized by Truth identifies an issue in the field of biblical interpretation: does the fact this is Christian Scripture affect how we read, approach, study, and interpret the Bible? Green takes the reader on a journey of understanding […]
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Joining God, Remaking Church, Changing the World by Alan Roxburgh is a book concerning ecclesiology, specifically on the subject of the missional church movement. His writing is a critique of ecclesiocentrism, or being too focused on fixing the church rather than on the mission of God (p. 48). Roxburgh writes about his journey over the past […]
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Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood edited by Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes is a collection of stories from church plants that are missional. The stories are not patterns to be mimicked, but rather case studies exemplifying the framework Branson and Warnes present as the Missional Change Process (Mark Branson, and N. […]