Todd Engstrom

Category: leadership

  • 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…

  • Questions to Answer in Transition

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    I’ve primarily been focusing on missional communities over the last few months, but I wanted to take a quick break and post on another topic. Recently I’ve had a number of conversations with people who are interested in pursuing vocational ministry or who are in a season of transition.  These conversations have given me the…

  • Caring for Missional Community Leaders

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • Ongoing Training for Missional Community Leaders

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • Basic Training for Missional Communities

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • The Basic Qualifications for Leadership

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • Two Ways to Identify Leaders

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • Discipleship and Leadership Development

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • Leadership Development Systems for Missional Communities

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    In this series of posts, I am going to unpack the strategy and structure of leadership development we have implemented at The Austin Stone for missional communities.  I’ll be looking at: Introduction Discipleship and Leadership Development Identifying Leaders – Two Different Methods Questions to Ask When Considering a Leader The Basic Qualifications for Leadership Basic…

  • The Lobby – Day 2

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    Today has been another encouraging and challenging day of conversation, and has left me with some good thinking to do. Session 5: Mission and Community We began the day today talking through the idea of mission, and how it plays out in community. My friend Spence Shelton gave me the opportunity to share the story…

  • The Difficulty of Balancing Ministry and Discipleship

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    I’ve found that it can be extremely difficult to continually cultivate the centrality of discipleship, or the process of selectively investing a small number of individuals in order to teach obedience to what Jesus taught (Matthew 28:18-20). I tend to think of Ministry and Discipleship in two different grids: Ministry Discipleship Reactive Proactive Low relational…