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LEAD 09 LIVE!

Here at LEAD 09 where Tim Chester just finished his first session on a biblical theology of missional community. Q&A now on practical, communal decision-making. Good stuff! You can view this conference for free, live at livestream.

City Group Missional Project

On Sunday the Riverside Meadows City Group cleaned 5 apartments for homeless women and children. This City Group is working with VINCare, a great social organization that houses, equips, and ministers to homeless women and children.

Communities of Performance or Grace?

Tim Chester offers a great diagnostic list to determine whether our communities are communities of performance or grace:

Communities of Performance
Communities of Grace

the leaders appear sorted
the leaders are vulnerable

the community appears respectable
the community is messy

meetings must be a polished performance
meetings are just one part of community life

identity is found in ministry
identity is found in Christ

failure is […]