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• Notes from Michael Frost on Mission as the Organizing Principle of the Church

  By dsonnenberg on October 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Notes from YouTube video of Michael Frost at a recent Presbytery meeting. Theme: “MISSION” should be the organizing priniciple of the church mission means “to be sent” – a movement outwards not something added on all other things should fall… Read More ›

• Notes from "Missional Renaissance" by Reggie McNeal

  By dsonnenberg on October 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Notes from Rev. Ken Priddy’s summary of Reggie McNeal’s presentation from his book Missional Renaissance at the summer General Assembly. the church typically measures how many, how often, how much three recent missional shifts from internal focus to external focus from… Read More ›

• Notes from Richard Pratt on Missional Applications of Being Created in God’s Image

  By dsonnenberg on October 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Notes from Rev. Ken Priddy’s summary (fall Presbytery) of Dr. Richard Pratt’s (RTS Orlando, Thirdmill.org) addresses at General Assembly this past summer. 1. Main theme – your value is in your creation in image of God we have value bc… Read More ›

• Notes from "Confessions of a Short-Sighted Presbyter" by Nate Atwood

  By dsonnenberg on October 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Address by Rev. Nate Atwood, Kempsville EPC, Virginia Beach, VA, at a recent EPC General Assembly and reiterated at a recent Presbytery. Learning from one another – recent lessons learned from others at Presbytery meetings and conclusions drawn lesson 1- we gotta… Read More ›

• Missionary God Sends His Son, His Spirit and His People

  By dsonnenberg on October 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  It has been said that God is a missionary God. He has a mission  (missio dei) in the world. He sent his Son into the world, the Father and the Son sent the Spirit into the world, and the same Trinitarian God sends… Read More ›

• Missional Shift for Redeemer Presbyterian in Manhattan from "Come and Hear" to "Go and Share"

  By dsonnenberg on October 2, 2010 • ( 0 )

  I found this article on the Redeemer.com website re their recent shift to a more missional focus. Click the title above to see more articles from Pastor Tim Keller and Redeemer. From “Come and See” To “Go and Share” September 2010 by Tim… Read More ›

• Response to "L’Abri" by Edith Schaeffer

  By dsonnenberg on September 28, 2010 • ( 0 )

  Written for Dr. Richard Horner, Church and the World, Reformed Theological Seminary, Orlando, November 2003. This book is the tale of the Schaeffers’ nearly forty-year endeavor to demonstrate, through their lives and work, that the God of the Bible existed in the… Read More ›