Too often, church leadership finds itself caught in a tug-of-war between tradition and innovation, with some fearing that change will dilute the Gospel, while others worry that clinging to the past will make the church irrelevant. However, the healthiest and most impactful churches embrace both tradition and innovation, recognizing that these two forces are not at odds but, rather, complementary. Author Greg Jones calls this balance between tradition and innovation “Traditioned innovation.”

Find your area of strength and step up. Find your area of weakness and step back. That will help the herd to flourish.

Timing is crucial. There are times where people are especially open to the good news. When this window of sunshine rises, make hay!

Have you ever looked at the world and wondered, "What if things could be different?" That’s the power of missional imagination—the ability to see the same things as everyone else but envision new possibilities in light of God’s mission to reveal the kingdom of heaven on earth.

“If necessity is the mother of invention, then play is the father.” This quote captures the essence of why play is crucial for church leaders and organizations. Play has a unique ability to stimulate creativity and inspire new ways of thinking.

This presentation explores the six financial models for church planting.

This presentation explores important topics in intercultural evangelism.

This presentation explores Christian Community Development.

Cows really are what they eat. Aren’t people like that too? Healthy foods often produce healthy bodies. How about what we feed our minds and our spirit?

A bigger church is not necessarily better. Perhaps a better question to ask is, “Am I handling the right size of people that is the right size of my leadership?”

Discipleship in oral cultures employs various genres already embedded in the culture to promote worldview transformation. When this is applied in a Native American culture with my friend over a ten year period, the journey can be surprising and delightful!

In the journey of faith and service, the concept of "missional imagination" plays a pivotal role in realizing God's transformative work in our lives and communities. It encourages us to explore new horizons, listen closely to God's voice, and embark on innovative paths for the Kingdom of God. In this blog post, we will delve into several questions that can help you harness your missional imagination for Kingdom innovation.

How do we evangelize to new generations such as Millennials, Gen Z and the Alpha Generations? Let’s explore different worldviews and how we can apply this to spread the gospel to new generations.

Another approach for churches that are both cash challenged along with closed/shrinking networks is to consider co-vocational pastoring. Previously, the term bi-vocational was used to describe a pastor who worked a secular job outside the church. The implication was that this was not the pastor’s vocational preference, and this was simply temporary until the church could afford a full salary. Once the church could afford a full salary, however, then the pastor would leave their secular job and work full-time for the church. The term ‘co-vocational’ challenges these assumptions.

A missional imagination sees the same thing as others but things different thoughts – thoughts of the kingdom guided by the Holy Spirit. The call for a missional imagination is not new. Actually, Jesus regularly called the disciples to cultivate a missional imagination.

Conflicts over the Scripture and culture exist in evenly culture. The purpose of this article is to show how the underlying epistemologies of Scripture and culture affect the responses given by well-meaning Christians concerning issues of the Scripture and culture.

This article identifies and constructs a historical and theological Wesleyan perspective of business and entrepreneurship, drawing on how Wesley viewed and used business and entrepreneurship particularly in relation to poverty in England in order to identify helpful implications, both theological and practical, for the church which seeks to engage with the issues of poverty.

Seventy percent of the world’s population cannot or chooses not to read! This astounding observation prompted the rise of the orality movement to help missionaries understand and reach oral learners. This article summarizes the recent orality movement by addressing questions that have arisen related to orality, such as: How far-reaching is this movement? Isn’t the orality discussion simply about storytelling and auditory learning? How do print and oral learning interact? Are there implications for Western cultures influenced by digital media? To address these questions, this article identifies six common misconceptions about the orality movement and concludes with missiological implications.

The benefits of using gamification for missiological development