Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • Mission First, Community Later?

    I found this quote on our Missional Community blog from the Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch: “In a remark ascribed to Gordon Cosby, the pioneering leader of that remarkable community Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C., he noted that in over sixty years of significant ministry, he had observed that no groups that came…

  • TASCC Missional Communities Blog

    Stew and the Community team have been working on putting together a Missional Community Blog for The Austin Stone. Here’s an excerpt: How to stay focused on the vision and mission As leaders we must clearly communicate the vision and mission and what it means. Review the vision and mission often. Intimate knowledge of the…

  • Fivefold Leadership | Dream Awakener

    I’ve found this post and the whole series from JR Woodward particularly insightful in applying the APEPT/APEST model of leadership to a western, contemporary church context.  JR has a unique way of articulating these ideas into a framework that makes sense for me. I first encountered this idea of missional leadership through the writing of…

  • Practice is the Embodiment of Value

    I listened to Alan Hirsch at our leadership conference (via Shapevine), and he busted out the title of this blog.  He was talking about the idea that intellect moves us to action being a complete reversal of reality.  Another quote from the day that really rung home for me is below: Act your way into…

  • The Austin Stone on Campus Audio

    I had the awesome opportunity to preach to the college students of The Austin Stone a week and a half ago at The Austin Stone on Campus.  God presence was palpable through the evening, and it was truly a blessing to be a part of. If you’d like to listen to/download my message from The…

  • Lessons in Evangelism | Gentrified

    Logan is doing a quick set of posts on Evangelism at Gentrified. Below is an excerpt: I am far from gifted in evangelism, if there was such a thing as ungifted that would be me, but I’ve learned that Paul’s exhortation to Timothy to “do the work of evangelist” likely means Timothy wasn’t either, but…

  • Evangelism | TheResurgence

    A funny, yet very practical tidbit on evangelism from The Resurgence.  This captures the main idea of of externally focused, gospel driven community: Click here to read

  • Digital REAP

    Our church uses a simple method of Bible study called REAP, coupled with a reading plan.  I’ve recently discovered how useful it can be to RSS this reading plan, as well as bookmark it, then use Google Notebook to take notes as I read. I still use the old fashioned bound Bible and a journal,…

  • Summary of Matt’s Innovation Talk

    The Christian Post has a summary of Matt’s talk here.  It is a good capture of some of the things our church and leadership has learned over the past few years.

  • Gentrified

    Logan has a good list of blogs he follows here, which he seems to think is extensive.  If only he knew how many I follow… One day I’ll share my whole blogroll, but for now you can peruse some things I find insightful from my Google Reader here.

  • Another Wells Excerpt

    Another great selection from Above All Earthly Pow’rs by David Wells here. This is probably the best book I have read in the past two years…

  • Top 3 Innovators @ Innovation3 | Catalyst

    Matt Carter, our Senior Pastor, was named as one of the top 3 innovators at Innovation3 by CatalystSpace.  Good stuff! Top 3 Innovators @ Innovation3 January 30, 2009 The Innovation3 conference was this week and it was cool. Did you go? There were over 100 speakers, but here are my Top 3 picks for most…