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ACL Community Video

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”. […]

What do cubicles, tobacco farming, and the church have in common?
By 2000, forty million American white-collar employees were using the cubicle. What began as a customizable work environment eventually turned into an urban dungeon. Cutting us off from contact with the real world, the cubicle is scorned for suffocating productivity and community. Attempts to […]

New Austin City Life website

Check out the new, vastly improved website for our church, Austin City Life. We are launching it in stages and will be working out the kinks, so its not all filled out. However, there’s plenty to check out and its pretty cool. Let me know what you think.
Design and photography by Jen Cota (also a […]

Cultivating Missional Communities

In order to lead the development and multiplication of healthy missional communities, it is critical to understand what a healthy missional community is and how to cultivate missional communities. Good friend and former church planting “partner”—during college, in a minority neighborhood, living in a sub-health code trailer, in Denton, Tx, without a clue about what […]

Leading Missional Communities

Leading our church into somewhat uncharted waters, I am constantly on the look out for helpful influences in cultivating missional communities, what we call City Groups. City Groups are local, urban missional communities of disciples who redemptively engage people and culture. These groups are intended to foster the church being the church to one another […]