As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.
January 16, 2026 at 1:07 PM
As missional leaders we need to see God as:Bigger than the problems we endure.Bigger than the pressures we experience.Bigger than the people who criticize us.Bigger than the pain we suffer.Bigger than the praise we receive.Bigger than the pride in our hearts.
Oh I’m not missional about this worldview
January 16, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Oh I’m not missional about this worldview
This autumn we will begin a conversation in Chelmsford Diocese about how we can be an enduring missional presence in Essex and East London in the times and context in which God has placed us.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
This autumn we will begin a conversation in Chelmsford Diocese about how we can be an enduring missional presence in Essex and East London in the times and context in which God has placed us.
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‘2026 will be the most spiritually open year in living memory,’ says UK missiologist: Research markers from the previous year (2025) suggest that the “tide has turned” in numbers of people attending church, says a missiologist for the U.K. Evangelical Alliance (EA). In a “Missional Trends 2026”…
‘2026 will be the most spiritually open year in living memory,’ says UK missiologist
Research markers from the previous year (2025) suggest that the “tide has turned” in numbers of people attending church, says a missiologist for the U.K. Evangelical Alliance (EA). In a “Missional Trends 2026” article, Phil Knox, Evangelism and missiology senior specialist for the national EA, shared five key missional expectations for churches to anticipate in the year ahead. These include more spiritually open people, unexplained spiritual experiences and events, gospel opportunities, deeper e
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January 13, 2026 at 5:53 PM
‘2026 will be the most spiritually open year in living memory,’ says UK missiologist: Research markers from the previous year (2025) suggest that the “tide has turned” in numbers of people attending church, says a missiologist for the U.K. Evangelical Alliance (EA). In a “Missional Trends 2026”…
The Missional Movement in the United States
How do we embrace the mission of God when traditional modes don't seem to be connecting?
How do we embrace the mission of God when traditional modes don't seem to be connecting?
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 PM
The Missional Movement in the United States
How do we embrace the mission of God when traditional modes don't seem to be connecting?
How do we embrace the mission of God when traditional modes don't seem to be connecting?
‘We’ve really enjoyed doing this, and it is very missional. It brings those on the margins of the church and in the community together.’
A rural Norman church has become the first to scoop the coveted Gold Eco Church Award in the Diocese of Worcester.
Read more at cofe.io/GoldAward.
A rural Norman church has become the first to scoop the coveted Gold Eco Church Award in the Diocese of Worcester.
Read more at cofe.io/GoldAward.
January 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
‘We’ve really enjoyed doing this, and it is very missional. It brings those on the margins of the church and in the community together.’
A rural Norman church has become the first to scoop the coveted Gold Eco Church Award in the Diocese of Worcester.
Read more at cofe.io/GoldAward.
A rural Norman church has become the first to scoop the coveted Gold Eco Church Award in the Diocese of Worcester.
Read more at cofe.io/GoldAward.
A United Methodist task force is dealing with the biggest change to setting the number of U.S. bishops in nearly 90 years. The group is focusing on missional needs while also facing the aftermath of church exits.
Group zeroes in on number, work of US bishops | UMNews.org
A United Methodist task force is dealing with the biggest change to setting the number of U.S. bishops in nearly 90 years. The group is focusing on missional needs while also facing the aftermath of…
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January 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
A United Methodist task force is dealing with the biggest change to setting the number of U.S. bishops in nearly 90 years. The group is focusing on missional needs while also facing the aftermath of church exits.
Power-Restrained Missions and the Temptations of Christ
I have sought to promote "Powerless" Missions. While this sounds strange to some people, it is not far from mainstream missions. Vulnerable Missions is a movement that is popularized and missiologists and missional theologians commonly…
I have sought to promote "Powerless" Missions. While this sounds strange to some people, it is not far from mainstream missions. Vulnerable Missions is a movement that is popularized and missiologists and missional theologians commonly…
Power-Restrained Missions and the Temptations of Christ
I have sought to promote "Powerless" Missions. While this sounds strange to some people, it is not far from mainstream missions. Vulnerable Missions is a movement that is popularized and missiologists and missional theologians commonly promote an avoidance of missionaries utilizing money or authority to control and manipulate. But I also get the problem. The term "vulnerable," although an awkward term certainly, probably has a better feel to it than powerless.
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January 7, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Power-Restrained Missions and the Temptations of Christ
I have sought to promote "Powerless" Missions. While this sounds strange to some people, it is not far from mainstream missions. Vulnerable Missions is a movement that is popularized and missiologists and missional theologians commonly…
I have sought to promote "Powerless" Missions. While this sounds strange to some people, it is not far from mainstream missions. Vulnerable Missions is a movement that is popularized and missiologists and missional theologians commonly…
Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
December 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
This is another way of saying that the extremely wealthy Southern baptist convention failed miserably in its missional work when the nations showed up on its doorstep.
December 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This is another way of saying that the extremely wealthy Southern baptist convention failed miserably in its missional work when the nations showed up on its doorstep.
Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.
Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Cultivating spiritual intimacy is essential for leaders to live a vibrant missional life.
Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Leading a missional church is not for the faint of heart. It takes courage to push yourself beyond your comfort zone and to lead the church beyond it personal limits.
The missional and nationalistic impulses in Christianity cannot coincide
Nationalist missions is merely colonialism.
Nationalist missions is merely colonialism.
December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The missional and nationalistic impulses in Christianity cannot coincide
Nationalist missions is merely colonialism.
Nationalist missions is merely colonialism.
In the Severnside Parishes, please pray for our missional work with young people, seniors and community groups across Kempsey, Norton, Severn Stoke and Croome D’Abitot. In particular our ministry team: Kat Mepham, Libbirty Webber, Owain Bell, Don Sloggett, Libby James, Kay Mason and Ron Rust.
December 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
In the Severnside Parishes, please pray for our missional work with young people, seniors and community groups across Kempsey, Norton, Severn Stoke and Croome D’Abitot. In particular our ministry team: Kat Mepham, Libbirty Webber, Owain Bell, Don Sloggett, Libby James, Kay Mason and Ron Rust.
Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.
December 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Missional leaders understand the power of connecting relationally in their community through personal networking.
I like to think that forcing someone in US border control to scroll through 5yrs of my social media would have a +ve influence on them, make them smile, introduce them to Jesus, missional theology & discipleship, help them admire my places of work, &make them jealous of my stylish &jaunty hats.
December 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I like to think that forcing someone in US border control to scroll through 5yrs of my social media would have a +ve influence on them, make them smile, introduce them to Jesus, missional theology & discipleship, help them admire my places of work, &make them jealous of my stylish &jaunty hats.
It's the same pride in being odd, outcast, rebelling, justice seeking, brave, or vindicated as liberation requires, but shoots off the wrong direction toward "just work harder": 7 Steps to Freedom and purity culture and Whiteness. "Missional" sucks on principle but WORKS for diverse, big audiences.
December 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
It's the same pride in being odd, outcast, rebelling, justice seeking, brave, or vindicated as liberation requires, but shoots off the wrong direction toward "just work harder": 7 Steps to Freedom and purity culture and Whiteness. "Missional" sucks on principle but WORKS for diverse, big audiences.
I was delighted to return home to this award in the mail:
"Winner: Christian Non-Fiction - Academic."
Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, is a "missional church" guide for post-Christian contexts. (I use the word "witness" rather than "mission" in the book.)
"Winner: Christian Non-Fiction - Academic."
Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, is a "missional church" guide for post-Christian contexts. (I use the word "witness" rather than "mission" in the book.)
December 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I was delighted to return home to this award in the mail:
"Winner: Christian Non-Fiction - Academic."
Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, is a "missional church" guide for post-Christian contexts. (I use the word "witness" rather than "mission" in the book.)
"Winner: Christian Non-Fiction - Academic."
Improvising Church: Scripture as the Source of Harmony, Rhythm, and Soul, is a "missional church" guide for post-Christian contexts. (I use the word "witness" rather than "mission" in the book.)
tl;dr - the Remote Revolution has been incredible, and, also, the ministry of the local parish is essential. But until and unless clergy and congregations are able to meet the missional needs of those who don't attend public worship, thank God there are remote resources to fill the gaps.
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December 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
tl;dr - the Remote Revolution has been incredible, and, also, the ministry of the local parish is essential. But until and unless clergy and congregations are able to meet the missional needs of those who don't attend public worship, thank God there are remote resources to fill the gaps.
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This week marked our first Tasty Tuesday &what a beautiful start it was! DCBC has committed to providing meals throughout the year for the young people living at the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) as part of our new glocal missional engagement efforts.
December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This week marked our first Tasty Tuesday &what a beautiful start it was! DCBC has committed to providing meals throughout the year for the young people living at the National Center for Children and Families (NCCF) as part of our new glocal missional engagement efforts.
Doug Powe says that missional congregations must be connected to their context, bound by a common story, open to innovation, and guided by a godly vision. https://ow.ly/C1la50PNw2i
4 Key Characteristics of Missional Congregations - Lewis Center for Church Leadership
Congregations that want to move forward and live more missionally need to understand and embody four key characteristics, says F. Douglas Powe, director of the Lewis Center and the James C. Logan Chair in Evangelism (an E. Stanley Jones Professorship) at Wesley Theological Seminary. Missional congregations must be connected to their context, bound as a
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December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Doug Powe says that missional congregations must be connected to their context, bound by a common story, open to innovation, and guided by a godly vision. https://ow.ly/C1la50PNw2i
I read a blurb online and it didn’t seem radically different from other missional approaches of the last 20 years (Kirk, Guder et al, and particularly ”Abide and Go” by Gorman re the ”love vs repair” thing). Which would be great! Does it have a go at anything like those?
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I read a blurb online and it didn’t seem radically different from other missional approaches of the last 20 years (Kirk, Guder et al, and particularly ”Abide and Go” by Gorman re the ”love vs repair” thing). Which would be great! Does it have a go at anything like those?
Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.
December 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.
Ways to Tell Missional Stories are Greater Than Ever
Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.”
— Habakkuk 2:2
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Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.”
— Habakkuk 2:2
open.substack.com/pub/georgebu...
Ways to Tell Missional Stories are Greater Than Ever
Local denominational organizations/judicatories empowering their congregations to serve from the base of their context. Based on Baptist associations in the Southern Baptist tradition.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Ways to Tell Missional Stories are Greater Than Ever
Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.”
— Habakkuk 2:2
open.substack.com/pub/georgebu...
Record the vision and inscribe it on tablets, that the one who reads it may run.”
— Habakkuk 2:2
open.substack.com/pub/georgebu...