Tim Keller on the Missional Church

Characteristics of a Missional Church

Preaching and the Missional Church

Bono's Prophetic Voice

From the Bill Hybels (of Willowcreek) Leadership Summit 2006 Bono interview, an edited clip from the Elevation tour with scripture references on the screen for "40" and "Where The Streets Have No Name" and a clip from Bono speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Dr. Tony Evans at the Christian Community Development Association

This video goes back to 2002 at their annual meeting.



It is followed by an excerpt from the legendary John Perkins.



Be lifted.

Nightline on the Emergent Church

Transformation Is God's Business

2 Corinthians 3:18
And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

God is in the business of transformation. That means that those who commit themselves to transformation of people and communities are in business with God.

It is by reflecting God's glory with unveiled, vulnerable, authentic faces and fixed gazes upon Jesus Christ that the impossible is accomplished. We are trasnformed into agents of transformation. It's overhwelming wonder grows as it builds into a tsunami of ever-increasing glory!

And it all happens as the Spirit of God works in our lives with ruthless love and relentless grace.

Transformational Values from The Fellowship of Joy

• We value the holiness of the ordinary.
• We value the uniqueness of every person in the image of God.
• We value spontaneity, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
• We value the poor and wounded and seek to provide a place for them at the table.
• We value the interaction of many cultures and peoples in a fellowship of grace and acceptance where our differences are honored and our oneness is celebrated.
• We value joy, laughter, and human warmth.
• We value the insights God gives to each member of the Body individually and in groups as we gather around the scriptures and seek God together.

A Mission Statement on Transformation

Mission/Purpose:
Our mission is the transformation of individuals, families, and communities through the whole gospel of the Kingdom of God in Jesus Christ.

Real Transformation

It hit me this morning as I was preaching to the people of the Fellowship of Joy. We really are a transformational community. The pews were being warmed by people whose hearts have been warmed. They are changing. Their families and relationships are changing in the crucible of our collective fellowship and our individual relationships with God. we are hammering things out and growing and as we develop, our networks do as well.

I have no idea how much impact this is having, but I am sure that it is great.

From and To

As we think and speak of transformation of communities and communities that transform people, the key question at the center of the issue may be prepositional rather than propositional. What are we transforming from and what are we transforming to? the weight is with the destination rather than the origination of course so we focus more on the "to" than the "from."

From whence we come and from what condition is everything other than the narrow focus of Kingdom purpose to which we aspire.

Once we are found embraced and enveloped by the passion of the destination, we discover that only the entry point was narrow. The possibilities from that point on are broader and more overwhelming than anything we could have imagined prior to the moment of transformation - a moment that becomes a continuing process as those possibilities unfold.

Know the "from" and the "to," but focus on the "to."

The Old Shopping Center

Right now, I am looking longingly at some empty grocery stores and the shopping centers that are going downhill as a result. What starts as a hardship for one business and its employees becomes a cancer effecting the morale of an entire community. How can the church intervene in its neighborhoods to bring change?

Borrowed Quotes on Transformation

“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”

Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)

"Circumstance does not make the man. Circumstance reveals man to himself."
—Emerson

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost."
—Dalai Lama

"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
—Sir Josiah Stamp

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
—Dale Carnegie

"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
—Albert Einstein

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
—George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is everything; it is the preview of life's forthcoming attractions."
—Albert Einstein

"Of the Good in you I can speak, but not of the Evil. For what is Good-tortured by it's own hunger and thirst? When Good is hungry, it seeks food, even in dark caves, and when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters."
—Kahlil Gibran

"The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well."
—Elisabeth Kubler Ross

"Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus."
—Oprah Winfrey

"You often meet your destiny on the road you've taken to avoid it."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
—George Bernard Shaw

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."
—Johann von Goethe

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart."
—Helen Keller

"We can have peace if we let go of wanting to change the past and wanting to control the future."
—Lester Levinson

"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."
—Winston Churchill

Mosaic Alliance

Mosaic Alliance is a great model for transformational ministry. For that reason i will also post this at one of our sister sites. This is copied from their homepage:

Mosaic Alliance Mission

Serving leaders to change the world....

Create the Future

The Mosaic Alliance is a global network committed to create the future by unleashing a culture of entrepreneurship, activism, innovation, authenticity, and creativity within the local church. The Alliance seeks to empower and equip churches and leaders to maximize the creative potential in the communities in which they serve. We partner with leaders from around the globe in effort to catalyze the movement of Jesus Christ. The Mosaic Alliance provides resources, training, and ongoing dialogue in effort to serve leaders and churches worldwide. One of our focus areas involves serving church planters, but the Alliance is not limited to church planters. Join us in creating the future together!

Mosaic Alliance Values

• Wind
  ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  Mission is why the Church exists.
• Water
  ACTIVISM
  Love is the context for all mission.
• Wood
  INNOVATION
  Structure must always submit to Spirit.
• Fire
  AUTHENTICITY
  Relevance to culture is not optional.
• Earth
  CREATIVITY
  Creativity is the natural result of spirituality.

Connect!

For more information on connecting to the Alliance, go here.

Chasing Daylight in Fresno

Chasing Daylight in Fresno

Begining February 20-21

Tuesdays at Dennys (Shaw and Willow) -9:00 P.M.
Wednesdays at BT (4141 n Fresno St) - 7:15 P.M.
Thursdays at Starbucks (Ashlan and Cedar) - 7:00 A.M.

I Liked His Profile

I was attracted to the blog by an interview title, but I really like this profile description. For no other reason than that, I am willing to promote some of his blogs:

Name: Phil Miglioratti

Location: Palatine, Illinois, US

Phil Miglioratti has a passion to “connect people to God" by networking, convening, facilitating and resourcing Christ followers to serve the poor and the privileged with the good works and the good news of Jesus.

	One Great City ~ CH!CAGO	CFFGroup
	Loving Our Communities to Christ, p.2
	LC2C Calendar	CFFGroup
	Your Prayer Blog -Test
	Blews.Network = 50-state Christian network of city blogs+news	CFFGroup IndyChristian
	LC2C - Presentation - by Jim Overholt
	Praying Pastor Blog
	Loving Our Communities to Christ
	Loving Our Community To Christ - Sacramento
	LC2C RESOURCES
	IBSA Prayer Ministries
	Pray For Surf blog
	The Prayer Leader Blog
	National Pastors' Prayer Network

We are talking about some serious passion for community transformation in these.