Links to diverse missional communities and resources

Please add to the list below; I will be off and on.

www.cmaresources.org

http://www.catholicworker.org/communities/commlistall.cfm

www.inwardoutward.org

http://www.adullamdenver.com/

http://www.scumoftheearth.net/SOTEC/Welcome.html

http://www.thesimpleway.org/

http://m.facebook.com/Pilgrims.in.the.Park?_rdr#!/Pilgrims.in.the.Park?view=feed&filter=14&refid=0

http://www.rockharbor.org/

http://bensternke.com/2009/10/warning-list-for-missional-communities/

http://www.commonwealthchapel.com/get-connected/missional-communities/

http://www.rivernyc.org/

www.ccda.org

www.newmonasticism.org

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20101123_81_A9_CUTLIN542411

http://jrwoodward.net/2008/11/a-primer-on-todays-missional-church/

http://www.friendofmissional.org/

http://www.ecclesianet.org/

www.missionalchurch.org

http://tacoma.somacommunities.org/

http://www.vergenetwork.org/7-questions-series/

http://www.koinoniapartners.org/

Missional Church Bibliography

http://missionalprogressives.blogspot.com/2010/10/few-starter-books-on-being-missional.html

Rules For Missional Radicals

From Alan Roxburgh's book (see post below). Go to his website at http://www.roxburghmissionalnet.com/. Specifically to his blogpost at http://www.roxburghmissionalnet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=160:neighborhood&catid=44:culture&Itemid=89

10 Rules:
1. Go local: incarnation comes in neighborhoods, neighbors, connecting and growing connections and spirit and help; we know people across the world but not next door (one critic contends Roxburgh needs to allow space for virtual neighborhoods); this is part of relocating; it is where our finite human selves and resources can also be conveyers of the most influence. meeting God in the neighborhood.

2. Leave your baggage at home. Be prepared to be a native, to enter new worlds right around you in the people of diversity

Workshop on Missional Progressives Reimagining Church/World

From July 25-28, I will lead an afternoon workshop at Western Hills Lodge on Fort Gibson Lake not too far from Tulsa. The title will be Missional Progressives Reimagining Church, but the first point will be that what we are engaged in is reimagining the world around us, and if we don't start there then any kind of reimagining church will be in vain...

Monday's conversation is called Church as Parable...If Jesus' parables are about 180 degree turns in how people conceived of God, what would our 180 degree turns on how we conceive church be today? (one of the 180 degree turns is that all churches should not be conceived as the same, need to be the same in expression, etc, and so that includes all churches making 180 degree turns from what and who and where they are now; but we need to break our molds).

Monday night I will be leading the evening worship from 7:30 to 8 pm with an evening prayer theme of "Abide With Me".

Tuesday is called Church as Praxis. Sharing insights and stories and examples of how churches are already reimagining reincarnating themselves and what it means to become church. how are new mission and church plants being manifested?

Wednesday is called Church as Progressive. Why are progressive churches, peoples, in good position to be leaders in missional movements, and why are they last to pick up this adventure, what holds us back, and how are the two related as our strengths become our weaknesses and our weaknesses our strengths?

Thursday is called Church as Partner. How can we get out of our inherent isolationist approach of thinking we are in it by ourselves, and have to do it all ourselves, as ourselves, and how can we create ways to partner with others in mission, sharing stories of creating relationships beyond us to transform us and the world around us.

For more, go to http://swuuc.org/pages/services/camps/swuusi.php

Starting with the Right Questions

From the new book Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood by Alan Roxburgh:

"The problem is that we won't address questions about the nature and function of the church by starting with questions about the church. [from RR: if you are at General Assembly or one of your church conferences notice how many issues, questions, concerns, conversations, lectures, workshops, etc. are all about the church]. In the changed contexts of our time, starting with church questions (whether multisite churches, the renaissance of the church, whole church, church morph, sticky church, or church turned inside out or whatever) takes us in all the wrong directions because they are the same old questions we have been asking since before the Reformation.

"On the other side are those who want to set aside the church as it exists (of course there is no other kind of church) as being irrelevant or past bothering with....Each of these is mentioned to make it clear that my argument of this book is not antichurch. In fact, my argument is born out of a passionate desire for local churches to embrace the missio Dei in their neighborhoods and communities.


"The heart of this book is to address these questions: What is God up to in our neighborhoods and communities? What is the nature of an engagement between the biblical imagination and this place where we find ourselves, at this time, among these people? What then will a local church look like when it responds to such questions?"

Pay attention to see where these questions are being asked, and where they aren't and why

Asking The Right Questions: Moving From Church to Neighborhood To Find God and Church

From Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood by Alan Roxburgh:

"The problem is that we won't address questions about the nature and function of the church by starting with questions about the church. [from RR: if you are at General Assembly or one of your church conferences notice how many issues, questions, concerns, conversations, lectures, workshops, etc. are all about the church]. In the changed contexts of our time, starting with church questions (whether multisite churches, the renaissance of the church, whole church, church morph, sticky church, or church turned inside out or whatever) takes us in all the wrong directions because they are the same old questions we have been asking since before the Reformation.

"On the other side are those who want to set aside the church as it exists (of course there is no other kind of church) as being irrelevant or past bothering with....Each of these is mentioned to make it clear that my argument of this book is not antichurch. In fact, my argument is born out of a passionate desire for local churches to embrace the missio Dei in their neighborhoods and communities.

"The heart of this book is to address these questions: What is God up to in our neighborhoods and communities? What is the nature of an engagement between the biblical imagination and this place where we find ourselves, at this time, among these people? What then will a local church look like when it responds to such questions?"

Pay attention to see where these questions are being asked, and where they aren't and why

Moving Away From Church Questions to Neighborhood, God, Scripture Questions

From Missional: Joining God in the Neighborhood by Alan Roxburgh:

"The problem is that we won't address questions about the nature and function of the church by starting with questions about the church. [from RR: if you are at General Assembly or one of your church conferences notice how many issues, questions, concerns, conversations, lectures, workshops, etc. are all about the church]. In the changed contexts of our time, starting with church questions (whether multisite churches, the renaissance of the church, whole church, church morph, sticky church, or church turned inside out or whatever) takes us in all the wrong directions because they are the same old questions we have been asking since before the Reformation.

"On the other side are those who want to set aside the church as it exists (of course there is no other kind of church) as being irrelevant or past bothering with....Each of these is mentioned to make it clear that my argument of this book is not antichurch. In fact, my argument is born out of a passionate desire for local churches to embrace the missio Dei in their neighborhoods and communities.

"The heart of this book is to address these questions: What is God up to in our neighborhoods and communities? What is the nature of an engagement between the biblical imagination and this place where we find ourselves, at this time, among these people? What then will a local church look like when it responds to such questions?"

Pay attention to see where these questions are being asked, and where they aren't and why.