Saturday, May 30,  Christians from the Dallas-Fort Worth area will show up in Lancaster Texas to help the elderly with their yard work.
I talk alot about missional living.  I believe that every Christian is supposed to live in a missional context whether it is on the job,  in the neigborhood or in the store.
Most people [...]

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Matt Carter on Missional Small Groups
In the video (see link above) from the Leadership Network program, THE SHOW, Pastor Matt Carter of the Austin Stone Community Church  in Austin Texas discusses their failure at developing community through small groups…and what they did about it.
Key point: When we focused on community, we got neither community or mission. [...]

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Recently, I learned that the church used to attend,  Cross Timbers Community Church in Argyle is undergoing some changes.  I was excited when I heard the things that were happening.  As one long time member told me,  things are really changing.
Cross Timbers was a phenomonen.  It started out on the second Sunday of January 2000 [...]

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Up until a year ago,  I had spent a lot of time with people who are homeless.  I led a Street church and we saw great things happen.  People came to faith in Christ, people were baptised, people got jobs and people got off the streets.  It was rewarding and exasperating all at the same [...]

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“Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.”This is attributed to St. Francis of Asissi and I hear this quoted often. It seems to be an attitude that is prevalent in the missional movement. We talk a lot about incarnating Christ - which is necessary. But the part of the discussion that [...]

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Pleas for help — spiritual and financial — are flooding U.S. churches, from tiny congregations to megachurches, as recession woes seep into the pews, a new survey finds.
Pastors say they’re giving out benevolent funds in record numbers, increasing ministries to the unemployed and the financially fearful, even reaching into their own pockets more to [...]

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Last September my friends Adam and Diana Clay spent a weekend at a bed and breakfast in Fort Worth.  As they talked the owners who are Christians  found out that Adam is a church planter.  They had purchased an old Church of Christ building and set it up as a wedding chapel (Lockhart Chapel). 
They had [...]

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