Flowing naturally from the idea that God has an overarching mission for mankind, thus rendering that mission God-centered, is the assertion that the church, as… Read More »The Missionary Imperative of the Missional Church – the Church as Sent
The first principle that drives the missional church is what it considers the biblically-mandated missionary imperative. But while the evangelical church has traditionally considered evangelism… Read More »The Missionary Imperative of the Missional Church – Missio Dei
In order to understand the driving impulses behind the North American evangelical missional church movement and its impact on worship, I will begin with a… Read More »A Brief History of the Missional Church Movement
Most church leaders readily recognize that God has tasked the church with several different purposes, yet how those purposes work together has equally mystified them.… Read More »The Influence of the Missional Church on Worship
I’ve been doing some reading on the missional movement, and one of their big arguments is that we live in a post-Christendom West, and therefore… Read More »Alan Hirsch on cultural distance
A missionary cannot properly evaluate the differences among cultural expressions until he has understood their universals. At the root of the most thoughtful defenses of… Read More »Differences and Universals in Music Across Cultures
In my handful of posts this month, I want to give some anecdotes from church history to inform us as to how missionaries, attempting to… Read More »A Humble Request and Prolegomena
I thought I’d post a helpful discourse by Dave Doran in his journal article on “Market-Driven Ministry,” which answers well recent justification of a neutral… Read More »Multiculturalism veiled as "Missional"