by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Missional, Ministry
Steve Addison has put together a wonderful paper on how Methodists and Baptists reached people in the frontier during the early days of the United States.‚ By the way, if you don’t put Steve’s blog in your feed reader, you are missing some great stuff.‚ ...
by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Missional
What the?‚ You read right folks.‚ The good folks at Lifeway are working to train people in “The Missional Sunday School.”‚ Ed Stetzer (why is his name coming up so much today?‚ Maybe it’s the calf fries.) and Bruce Raley, Director of Leadership...
by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Leadership, Ministry, Books, Feature Articles, Missional
To Love and To Cherish From This Day Forward…A Portrait of a Healthy Church by Randy Millwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars Synopsis In the pages of To Love and To Cherish From This Day Forward, Dr. Randy Millwood sets out to paint a different picture, a new picture...
by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Culture, Evangelism, Missional, Glocal
I want to do a few posts, now that I am getting back to some degree of health, about what I learned by spending a week in Spain as it applies to ministry in the US. Western Europe is post-Christian, maybe better stated post-christendom. People do not view the church...
by David Phillips | Jun 1, 2011 | Books, Missional
Introduction: Here the authors lay out their intent in the book. ¢â‚¬Å“This book will assist you in being able to think through your context, apply universal principles in your mission setting, and then identify and apply strategies that will make you more effective...
by David Phillips | May 26, 2011 | Missional, Culture, Formation, Communications
I was talking recently with a young college student finishing his first year at a community college. He was doing a paper and I asked how the paper was going. He told me he was about half way through, it was due in a couple of days and he had run out of resources. I...
