En los EEUU no tendría éxito

Juan Simarro Fernández En el ambiente que rodea a Jesús, están los antihéroes.    Hace no mucho tiempo, regalé uno de mis libros “Inmigrantes, el multiforme rostro de Dios”, a un misionero norteamericano amigo mío. Lo estuvo viendo y, al cabo de unos días, me dijo: “En los Estados Unidos esto no tendría éxito”. No [...]

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Why We Celebrate the Christian Calendar

by BEN STERNKE Today is the first Sunday of Advent, which is New Year’s Day for the Church. Today is when we start telling the story again, the story of how Jesus Christ fulfilled the story of Israel in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension, and how we now live with him by the Spirit and [...]

What Powers Mission?

by BEN STERNKE  After a wonderful final Learning Community immersion (“Establishing Centers of Mission”) with the 3DM team, I’ve been thinking about mission a lot. Not mission-as-project or mission-as-event, but real kingdom-of-God stuff: people becoming disciples of Jesus and joining with him in his work. What is necessary for real kingdom mission to flourish? What hinders it?This morning I was reading [...]

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¿Te da miedo ser manso?

Juan Simarro Fernández Retazos del evangelio a los pobres (XXXVII) “Bienaventurados los mansos, porque ellos recibirán la tierra por heredad”. Mateo 5:5.   Es verdad que este concepto “manso” no tiene por qué ser aplicado de una manera directa a los pobres de la tierra. Creo, sin embargo, que hay más mansedumbre entre los pobres que [...]

Latrocinios y trasfondos traidores

Juan Simarro Fernández Retazos del evangelio a los pobres (XXXVI) “… a los pobres siempre los tendréis con vosotros”.Juan 12:8. Texto completo en Juan 12:1-8. Jesús, el gran defensor de los pobres y de los sufrientes del mundo, el que era capaz de decir a uno de los ricos de este mundo: “Si quieres ser perfecto, [...]

No Mission Without the Gospel of the Kingdom

by BEN STERNKE on SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 Early on in my explorations of missional theology, I remember thinking that this stuff was so brilliant that all people really needed was permission to do it, and it would take off. I figured all this missional energy was just bottled up inside everyone and they were just waiting for someone [...]

Do You Want to Learn How to Make Disciples?

by Ben Sternke In our process of planting a network of missional communities, we’ve discovered that discipleship is an absolutely essential foundation to have in place if you want to see any fruit in terms of mission. Through our friends at 3DM, we’ve been learning how to build a discipling culture that is radically reproducible [...]

Surprises of church planting

Doug Paul   Before arriving to the central point of this post, allow me to recap some of the things I’ve been talking about in the past few months. As I see it, here are some of the enormous hurdles facing church planters as they are planting in the current landscape of things: Many church [...]