The near-term COVID-19 response presents a challenge and opportunity for today’s church in terms of our mission to provide holistic and locally present engagement in our place. For churches and their leaders to do this well, they must take four key steps: Acquire a biblical framework Analyze the situation Assess History Apply Missional Guardrails Here’s
What does it look like for us to launch decentralized churches once we are past the COVID-crisis? The pandemic has revealed that there is a significant over-reliance on the Sunday gathering in the ways we conceptualize the church. By placing too much emphasis here, we underestimate many of the other aspects of the life of
The Fall and Winter of 2020-21 is the mid-term season of the COVID-19 pandemic. The slate has been wiped clean and every church is poised for a relaunch. This season provides a unique opportunity to identify and rebuild our gatherings around the basics. We can discard structures or systems that do not work and relaunch
Every church has an unprecedented opportunity in this season when we’ve all be scattered by virtue of the Covid-19 pandemic. We all get a do-over. If you’ve ever thought that you’d like to change things up in your church, reshape a structure or program, or overhaul the ministry model altogether, now is the time. You
The ground is shifting under our feet faster than anyone could have anticipated. Church planting and leading models that were common only a month ago suddenly have little application to our current reality. In the midst of such uncertainty, it is hard for leaders to understand how to prepare for the near future. What will
Purchase Now! Venal Dogmata offers an approachable narrative to give readers a snapshot into the future of the North American church. The author's missiological diagnosis of ten ecclesiastical "glitches" that are keeping the church from thriving in today's post-Christian environment guides the storyline of this book (which are described in his forthcoming North American missiology
Three separate yet distinct streams appear to be converging into what could become the perfect, Kingdom conditions for a gospel movement. These streams are…
What is the state of the North American church response to the coronavirus crisis? As we go further into adjusting to the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, the Send Institute has been learning from leaders of denominations and networks how churches are doing and how they have been responding. In this webinar, we will share
Thursday, March 26 @ 2:00 pm EST Many countries in Europe are now in complete lockdown while the number of COVID-19 cases grows every day. And in the last few days, Italy has surpassed China in the most number of deaths resulting from the virus. As we continue in the Lent season, we should remember