Missio Dei Blog

Money and Missio Dei

Chris Gonzalez, June 17, 2009

Why do we give our money to Missio Dei? We give money to Missio Dei Communities because investing our money together is another way of saying we are in this together.  We give because God has given us everything we have and we want to invest our lives together into the mission of God (Missio ...

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Three Thorn Promoting Tactics

Chris Gonzalez, June 15, 2009

In Luke 8, Jesus tells a story of seed sewn into 4 soils.  The fourth is the good soil.  The other three… not so much!  I believe the soil we are most likely to be affected by as Missio Dei is the third soil.  Thorny weeds grow up around the plant and choke out the Word ...

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Better than a Bulletin

Kevin Platt, June 10, 2009

I grew up with eight page bulletins.  If you aren't that familiar with some of the culture of smaller baptistic churches, let me enlighten you.  We would have eight pages of information, some of it useful, most of it not. With the best of intentions the folded sheets of paper were meant ...

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Taking the Day On

Chris Gonzalez, June 8, 2009

In case you didn’t get to read the handout yesterday.  Here is what it said… Last week someone asked me why we are taking this Sunday off.  I tried to explain to him that just because we are not having a worship service at Thew, we are not “taking the day off.” ...

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