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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…
Grasping for trust

This Monday morning finds me frayed. I want so desperately to be on top of my game and able to say that I am doing something worthwhile, moving in the right direction, being a success... and all of this things are fleeti…
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.…
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…
Liturgy for contextual communities

My friend Mark, from Missio Dei in Minneapolis shares this liturgy on his blog.... This is the kind of thing I think we, as communities of believers, need to affirm during our gatherings. This is the kind of thing that l…
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Preacher or Conversational Facilitator

As I contemplate ministry, intentionality, and the type of person that I want to be or the community I want to be a part of, so many things come to mind. Bear with my reflections. I have a masters degree in Divinity.…
First question answered... come on, ask some more

Ed asked this question on Facebook, so I will answer here: Here is a question,what do you see the ultimate outcome of the emerging church,movement 10,15-20 years on down the line? I suppose I could quickly answer like…