By Rebecca Messman Christians often shy away from the use of the word “power” because it is seen as bad: power over, corrupted power, violent power, greedy power. Goliath bad! […]
Here are a few posts from the past NEXT blogs that are worth a re-read: Andrew Foster Connors suggests that good stewardship requires more than better preaching and shares how their […]
By Rocky Supinger The congregation I serve as an Associate Pastor has been working in earnest for a few years on community organizing. Last week my colleague wrote about the […]
Pastoral Prayer from the 2014 National Gathering Closing Worship Gracious God, as we prepare to go out from this place: Help us to remember. That is our prayer as our attention […]
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By Karen Sapio I’ll admit — when my congregation first began to be involved in broad based organizing, I was intrigued by it only partly because I saw its potential […]
By MaryAnn McKibben Dana I had an “aha” this weekend about why many of our congregations seem so stuck. I attended a “Building and Empowering Communities” leadership training sponsored by VOICE, a group […]
By Ashley Goff Why do the same people do everything around here? Why do I feel burned out? Where are all the new people? Where can we find people to […]
By Mark Greiner If you want to change people’s ideas, you shouldn’t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they’ll […]
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Andrew Foster Connors: Lessons from Community Organizing for the Missional Leader “Missional action almost always has evangelical results,” says Andrew Foster Connors in this 20-minute talk on missional leadership. In […]
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Congregational Power (Relational) Analysis
/in Contemporary CultureBy Rebecca Messman Christians often shy away from the use of the word “power” because it is seen as bad: power over, corrupted power, violent power, greedy power. Goliath bad! […]
From the Files – Community Organizing, TBT Edition
/in Community Partnerships & Organizing, Contemporary Culture, LeadershipHere are a few posts from the past NEXT blogs that are worth a re-read: Andrew Foster Connors suggests that good stewardship requires more than better preaching and shares how their […]
Getting Organized
/in Contemporary Culture, LeadershipBy Rocky Supinger The congregation I serve as an Associate Pastor has been working in earnest for a few years on community organizing. Last week my colleague wrote about the […]
Help Us Remember – A Prayer of Sending
/in 2014 National Gathering, Gatherings, Liturgy & Worship, Liturgy & Worship General, ResourcesPastoral Prayer from the 2014 National Gathering Closing Worship Gracious God, as we prepare to go out from this place: Help us to remember. That is our prayer as our attention […]
Christ Becomes Visible
/in Contemporary Culture, LeadershipBy Lois Bingham A mouse and a frog met every morning on the riverbank. They sat in a nook of the ground and talked. Each morning, the second they […]
Building in Relationality
/in Contemporary Culture, LeadershipBy Karen Sapio I’ll admit — when my congregation first began to be involved in broad based organizing, I was intrigued by it only partly because I saw its potential […]
Why Congregations are Stuck
/in Contemporary Culture, LeadershipBy MaryAnn McKibben Dana I had an “aha” this weekend about why many of our congregations seem so stuck. I attended a “Building and Empowering Communities” leadership training sponsored by VOICE, a group […]
Change Rooted in Relationships
/in Contemporary Culture, LeadershipBy Ashley Goff Why do the same people do everything around here? Why do I feel burned out? Where are all the new people? Where can we find people to […]
Cooking Up Trouble: Building a Church-Based Micro-Enterprise Kitchen
/in Contemporary Culture, Leadership, Theological ReflectionsBy Mark Greiner If you want to change people’s ideas, you shouldn’t try to convince them intellectually. What you need to do is get them into a situation where they’ll […]
The Pastor as Organizer – #TBT
/in Contemporary Culture, LeadershipAndrew Foster Connors: Lessons from Community Organizing for the Missional Leader “Missional action almost always has evangelical results,” says Andrew Foster Connors in this 20-minute talk on missional leadership. In […]