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What's It Take: Part 3

Chris Gonzalez, October 22, 2009

If no one is following you, you are not a leader.  You are just taking a walk in the woods.  And if you aren’t even walking anywhere, you are… crazy.  Yesterday we saw that the first key ingredient to a Missional Community is a Leader.  Here are the next ...

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What's It Take: Part 2

Chris Gonzalez, October 21, 2009

What makes a Missional Community?  Yesterday we raised that question HERE.  Some good insights from Mike and Amy.  Mike, how did I make it through seminary and never learn any of those words?  Amy, yeah, I think the whole “dying/rebirth” theme might be in the Story ...

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Sunday: A Dude who lives out Acts 2.

Chris Gonzalez, October 20, 2009

Last Sunday in Acts 2 we got called to live as a redeemed community living out the True Story, empowered by the Holy Spirit, bringing the good news to the nations.  We dreamed about what this could look like.  But sometimes, all this talk can seem just theory.  Does anyone really ...

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MC: What's it take?

Chris Gonzalez, October 20, 2009

The bottom line is that we are about developing a movement of communities utterly convinced of the gospel and unwaveringly committed to declaring and demonstrating that gospel to a broken world.  Unofficial Definition: Aside from Jesus, Missional Communities are what Missio Dei Communities ...

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Something's Stirring in Sandy

Chris Gonzalez, October 14, 2009

Just got this email from Sandy Bacon.  She and David are leading the "Thew-ology" MC that is seeking to bless the Thew school and families.  I thought this would be such an encouragement to many of the MDC family trying to live out the messy missio dei in our lives.  (And, yes, I ...

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