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How Not to Be a Missional Church

My series on How Not to Be a Missional Church is now complete! Check it out at The Resurgence.

Austin City Life & Austin Safeplace

This morning Austin City Lifers met up at a local coffeeshop and then headed over to Austin Safeplace to renovate the Teen Therapy Room.
MOVING IN

MIDWAY DONE

ALMOST DONE

FINISHED

Safeplace is a non-profit that serves abused and battered women and children. Safeplace […]

ENDURE Bootcamp

Just arrived in Houston for the Acts 29 ENDURE bootcamp. Some great speakers, lots of church planters, and some great plans for the kingdom will be hatched over the next three days. Pray for all of us!
I will be speaking twice on:

Enduring Community: The Problem of Community

Missional Communities in Cities and Suburbs

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ENDURE in Two Weeks!

Mission to Uganda

Austin City Life is sending a team of five to Uganda tomorrow. We will be training church planters and working with orphans and street kids. Although some of us have traveled quite a bit, none of us have been to Africa, much less Uganda. We expect to learn a lot from the kids and the […]

Luke Simmons notes: A few years ago I read a shocking paragraph in Thom Rainer’s book, The Unchurched Next Door:
82 percent of the unchurched are at least ‘somewhat likely’ to attend church if they are invited. Perhaps we need to pause on this response. Perhaps we need to restate it: More than eight out of […]

Missional is not an event we tack onto our already busy lives. It is our life. Mission should be the way we live, not something we add onto life: “As you go, make disciples….”; “Walk wisely towards outsiders”; “Let your speech always be seasoned with salt”; “be prepared to give a defense for your hope”. […]

New: Austin City Life Website

Check out our new church website. 99% of the photos are taken by our own people. Feel free to give us some feedback.

In the coming weeks we will be adding new sermon archiving features, fresh content, and new pictures. The plan is to keep the site fresh with content, resources, and images. Notice the blog […]

Missional Prayer

Archbishop William Temple said: “Your religion is your solitude.” In other words, where your thoughts go in your silence determine your religion, your chief objects of devotion and joy. Do our thought wander to God or to self, to entertainment or to community, to hobbies […]

My New Article: Gospel & Method

Resurgence is running the first of a series of articles I am writing on Gospel and Method. Here is an excerpt:
The debate between attractional and organic is largely a debate over method. What method should we use when planting and leading churches? Do methods matter? Does the gospel allow for all kinds of methods, or […]