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college ministry missional

Integration vs. Mission | Exploring College Ministry

Benson Hines has a great discussion about integration of college ministry relative to mission here. This has been a consistent struggle for us in the College Ministry at The Austin Stone, but definitely one that has yielded great fruit in ministry.  To summarize where we have landed, we: Deliberately integrate our weekly worship service, and […]

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Refreshing Perspective | The Blueprint

I’ve really enjoyed reading Jaeson Ma’s book The Blueprint: A Revolutionary Plan to Plant Missional Communities on Campus. Jaeson is certainly cut from a different theological tree than I am, but I have been challenged and refreshed by his perspective.  The book is essentially broken down into three sections: Prayer, Evangelism, and Missional Community.  The […]

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church college ministry missional

The Ordinary: The Rabbit and The Elephant.

We have some great students who think deeply about the church universal and the church local, and are living expressions of mission on their campus.  Aaron is one of them, and I’ve been blessed to watch him wrestle with the concepts of missional community.  He’s writing about it at The Ordinary, and here is an […]

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Ethereal Thought Train Review

Here’s a review of some of my favorite and your favorite posts from the last month: The highest hit rate came from Coffee Kills.  This post had absolutely no content or thought, which tells me that by and large most people could care less about what I have to say…maybe I need to rethink this […]

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christianity

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.