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New website

Hello everyone!! I will now being moving my writing to a new location. Click here to go there. www.natebettger.com You will be sure to find an RSS feed, reflections on the emerging church, Bend Oregon, and many more g…
Filling-the-Space community

My mind has been working on overload lately. Here are a few things I have been envisioning: It seems that often, at least in my own experience, there is a common mentality that the church is sort of separated from the g…
Don't come barging in to my town with your church...

I had a conversation yesterday with a number of ministry leaders, some of it regarding an encounter a few of them had in the past regarding new churches. The frustration was surrounding churches coming into a city saying…
Clarification of terms

I was talking to a friend today who said he may not really be able to call himself a "Christian" anymore. "I mean I am wholly committed to transforming my life into the image of Jesus and being his presence to the world.…
Church... how unstructured can we make it?

So I have been trying to visualize in my head what our church community might look like and become. Part of this is thinking about the influence that we have in so many places. We want to grow a community that is focused…
Tribute to the Fyreflyte
Admission #1

Okay, yah, I'll admit it. At this time, I still feel like a wannabe... and truthfully I hate it.
The Burning Man church?

The book The Shaping of things to Come, a book on the importance of the missional church, opens with a reasonably good description of a festival in Nevada called Burning Man. Coming from the Midwest, I knew nothing of t…
Relational Influence – being missional in Bend

As I sit here at the coffee shop, my thoughts regarding my first writing for our church publication center on the purpose I believe God has laid on my life for this time… and perhaps for the rest of my life even. It ha…
Thoughts on skepticism of under 30's

Here are some thoughts I have in response to an article that the Barna Group put out recently here. I had originally put them in an email, but decided they may be good to post here. **Edit: Very important disclaimer: I…