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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…
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…
Jesus' community

I want to learn to talk differently about how we are creating this church community in Bend. We have been talking about creating a community of like-minded individuals who don’t really connect with what church has come…
leadership in the emerging culture

After massive amounts of email and website updating, my desire for updating is quickly waning. Yet there is something that I have been thinking about a ton lately as I reflect on my own growth as a leader and the kind o…
Minister at large in Bend... doing what I know best

Adaptability, empathy, strategic, input, communication, connectedness... doing what I know best. Being in relationship and focusing on that first. Not much for clever words or profound thoughts... what I have will come o…
Tony Jones Emergent Q&A

Here are the audio files for our conversation with Tony Jones at First Presbyterian, Bend. I am working on getting the mp3 files uploaded so they can be downloaded. For mp3s: Part one Part Two