Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • Upcoming Series and New Ideas

    It’s been a joy to unpack some of the nuts and bolts of missional communities, and I’ve loved the feedback I’ve received from many of you. I’ve compiled the different series together on my resources page here: https://toddengstrom.com/resources In the coming months, I’ll be working through: Coaching Missional Communities Assessing Missional Communities Missional Community Core…

  • Stages of Missional Community Development – Conclusion and Data

    As we have led missional communities at The Austin Stone, we’ve found there are some common transitions in the life of our communities, and this series is discussing those four stages. They are: Community Group Small Group Team of Missionaries Missionary Team —– As I have unpacked the different stages that most communities go through,…

  • Stages of Missional Community Development – Missionary Team

    As we have led missional communities at The Austin Stone, we’ve found there are some common transitions in the life of our communities, and this series is discussing those four stages. They are: Community Group Small Group Team of Missionaries Missionary Team —– Missionary Team Definition A new community often forms into a Community Group,…

  • Stages of Missional Community Development – Team of Missionaries

    As we have led missional communities at The Austin Stone, we’ve found there are some common transitions in the life of our communities, and this series is discussing those four stages. They are: Community Group Small Group Team of Missionaries Missionary Team —– Team of Missionaries Definition As a Small Group begins to implement the…

  • Stages of Missional Community Development – Small Group

    As we have led missional communities at The Austin Stone, we’ve found there are some common transitions in the life of our communities, and this series is discussing those four stages. They are: Community Group Small Group Team of Missionaries Missionary Team —– Stage 2 – Small Group Definition As a Community Group begins to…

  • Stages of Missional Community Development – Community Group

    As we have led missional communities at The Austin Stone, we’ve found there are some common transitions in the life of our communities, and this series is discussing those four stages. They are: Community Group Small Group Team of Missionaries Missionary Team —– Stage 1 – Community Group Definition After forming communities, often times from…

  • Stages of Missional Community Development – Overview

    Four Stages of Missional Community It is our hope at the Austin Stone that each and every person is living on mission to make disciples with other believers, but we know most of our people don’t start here. Almost every individual and group is somewhere in the transition from being a consumer to being a…

  • Missional Community Practices – Fitting Them All Together

    The most common objection to these practices is having to do all of them every week. One of our leaders, a surgeon with three kids in a community with twenty-five children, stopped gathering everyone weekly and became more effective at both community and mission. Think through a month, not a week.

  • Soccer and the Kingdom of God

    I played soccer up until high school, and always enjoyed the game, so when it came time to put Micah into sports, soccer was a natural choice.  After a few stints at the YMCA, we joined our neighborhood league and I volunteered to help coach our team. It’s been an interesting few weeks in the…

  • Missional Community Practices – Third Place

    A third place is where a missional community becomes intentionally missional: neutral ground, natural to the rhythms of your friends who do not know Jesus, and regular enough that they can belong before they believe. Mission is about people, not projects.

  • Individualism and Community

    I think, therefore I am. One simple phrase that Descartes penned helped define a worldview for a future generation. No longer would humanity be fettered with group-think, old wives tales, and crude explanation. No, we would be released into the glorious future of rationalistic reasoning and society would soar to new heights. Centuries have passed,…

  • Missional Community Practices – Life Transformation Groups

    A Life Transformation Group is two or three believers of the same gender meeting outside the community gathering to hear and obey, repent and believe, and consider and pray. Neil Cole got this right, and it is where we study Scripture for obedience rather than information.