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Practical Examples of Everyday Rhythms
As a part of the Soma family, we often speak of living out our gospel identity in everyday rhythms of life (know the story, listen, bless, celebrate & suffer, eat, rest & work). In fact, much...
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Takeaways From My Week at Soma School
Last week my wife and I made our first trip to the beautiful Pacific Northwest to spend a week learning from Soma Communities. “Soma School” is a week long immersion into the life of Soma Tacoma, a...
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Equipping the Saints: Push vs Pull
Equipping the saints for the work of the ministry is hard. One of the things that makes it so hard is that there is so much equipping to do! We need to teach people to read their bibles, share their...
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Resources for Everyday Rhythms
Over the past few months we have been teaching through a series called Redeemer Basics. Here are a few resources we created during that series to help our people bring gospel intentionality to the...
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Tips and Ideas for the Weekly Meal
Sharing a meal together regularly is an important piece to missional community life in Redeemer. It is through the meal that we have an opportunity to bless one another ever week, and it is over the...
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5 Components of our Missional Communities
You can think of a missional community like a wheel with five spokes. When all five spokes are strong the wheel is able to move forward and do it’s job perfectly, with no weakness. In the same way, we...
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3 Tips for Neighborhood Missionaries
I’ve lived in 3 neighborhoods in the last 5 years, and in every neighborhood I have set out with intentions of being “missional”. Each neighborhood was a fresh start and a new people to engage with the...
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Training Leaders for Missional Community
Recently at Redeemer, we took around 30 of our leaders through 8 weeks of MC training we’ve called the MC Fast Track. Our hope for the MC Fast Track was three-fold: to provide on-going training for...
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Clearly Defining a Missional Community
It seems that nearly everyday I have a conversation about missional communities. I am thrilled that the missional community conversation is continually getting turned up louder! This excitement of mine...
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Your Missional Community Needs a Vision
Last week I defined missional communities. I answered the question: What is a missional community at Redeemer? Our answer: a missional community is a family of servant missionaries committed to growing...
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Ideas for Loving Your Neighbors on Halloween
Halloween is just a few days away. As you are making your plans and prepping costumes for your little goblins, I wanted to also call us to consider how we might love our neighbors this Halloween....
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Practical Examples of Everyday Rhythms
As a part of the Soma family, we often speak of living out our gospel identity in everyday rhythms of life (know the story, listen, bless, celebrate & suffer, eat, rest & work). In fact, much...
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The Role of Coaching in the Church
Proverbs 20:5 tells us “the purpose in a man’s heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out”. Think about this word picture we are being given by the author. There is a deep...
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Mistakes to Avoid When Coaching Church Leaders
Last week I posted about the role of coaching church leaders, specifically missional community leaders and church planters. Coaching is about coming alongside of a leader to help them reflect and...
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3 Keys to Developing Leaders
As I talk with leaders and church planters there is one topic that always keeps coming back up…developing leaders. Common questions I get are: How do we develop leaders? What are you guys doing at...
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The 3 Types of Leaders In Your Church
In my last post I shared some of my learning on developing leaders. One of the keys to developing leaders is to provide people with baseline training, opportunities to lead, and on-going personal...
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Becoming a Church-Planting Church
Last week I led a couple of breakout sessions at the Acts 29 South-Central Conference on becoming a church-planting church. Below are some of my notes. If you are a pastor, planter, or future planter...
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After 5 Years of Missional Communities
It’s been a little over 5 years since we planted Redeemer. Which means I’ve been leading and multiplying missional communities for a little over 5 years now. This month at Redeemer we are taking time...
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