Todd Engstrom

Author: Todd Engstrom

  • The Family Meeting – Sharing a Meal

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    This series will drill down on the missional community practice called “The Family Meeting”.  Although there isn’t a formula, here are some things to consider putting into practice: Sharing a Meal What Do You Talk About? An Evening of Prayer Celebrating Communion —– How to Conduct the Missional Community Family Meeting Rather than dive into…

  • Missional Community with Different Ages of Children

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    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • The Insufficiency of Small Groups of Discipleship

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    I continue to be grateful for the kind team at The Gospel Coalition.  They recently posted an article I wrote called “The Insufficiency of Small Groups for Discipleship“.  Below is an excerpt: In my limited experience, I have found few pastors and church leaders satisfied with their discipleship efforts. Almost every evangelical church in America…

  • Kids, Missional Community and Demonstrating the Gospel

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    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Kids and Third Place

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    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Kids and Life Transformation Groups

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    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Kids and the Family Meal

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    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Missional Communities and Kids

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    Perhaps the single most frequently asked question I receive with respect to missional communities is “what do we do with our children?”.  For this next series, I’m going to focus on answering that question from multiple different angles: Why involve your children? Kids and the Family Meal Kids and LTGs Kids and Third Place Kids…

  • Jesus and Mission

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    I’ve spilt quite a bit of digital ink over the last few months working through the reasons why we pursue missional communities, the core practices of missional communities, leadership systems for missional communities, and a variety of other practical things related to missional communities. For today’s post, I wanted to share a sermon that my…

  • Identifying a Mission

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    How Do We Identify a Mission? In a comment from the post on “How to Multiply a Missional Community“, I was asked: Would you consider a post on identifying the mission and the process of clarification, especially in the context of starting a new MC?  If you have a workplace focus, what about your neighborhood?…

  • How to Multiply a Missional Community

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    Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement.  This series of posts will explore different different questions about multiplying a missional community: Why multiply missional communities? When to multiply a missional community? When NOT to multiply a missional community? How to multiply a missional community? —– How to Multiply…

  • When Not to Multiply a Missional Community

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    Multiplication is a critical piece of effectively making disciples, and foundational to a movement.  This series of posts will explore different different questions about multiplying a missional community: Why multiply missional communities? When to multiply a missional community? When NOT to multiply a missional community? How to multiply a missional community? —– When NOT to…