I saw a headline recently that said “The Church is Too Generous to the Needy.” At first, it was hard for me to believe anyone could actually say there’s such a thing as “too much generosity,” particularly when in reference to God’s...
After almost eight years of leading a ”church laboratory”, trying to find new ways of how church has to be in order to survive the spiritual whirlwinds of change that are still drawing over Europe, I’m sometimes asked: ”So – what are your conclusions?! What does the...
“Consumers don’t understand what they want until they see it.” This quote from Steve Jobs (former founder and CEO of Apple) reveals much of his innovative business genius. Jobs didn’t give a lot of time to market research. He was...
How do you feel when you see an image of a Muslim praying, like this one? And how do you feel when you see an image of someone like Mother Theresa praying? If you are anything like me, as a Christian, you might feel separate or even negative towards the first...
It’s the little things that count. True love in the small things. Living missionally is not difficult in the “skill” sense but it is difficult in the “make-it-a-priority” sense. Small, simple, consistent acts of love add up and give God more grace space in which to...
I first learned of the “bell curve” as a high school student. Our statistics teacher, an eccentric white haired Irishman, taught us the distribution model that described how a set of results could be adjusted to create a grouping around the average result....
“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.” Mark 1:35 “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” (Thomas A....
As believers, we are all called to stewardship… of our time, our talents, our treasures. Within CA, we are passionate about stewardship; about being clear that everything God has given us is his, and that he might ask us to do something with “his” possessions that...
As a missional movement, Communitas starts churches who follow Jesus in transforming their world. March 2019 marked the time for Communitas’s first Future Church Symposium. Participants from ten countries gathered in Amsterdam to collaborate on some of the future’s...
Not 40, but 57 new churches in 4 years? God never ceases to amaze us! Four years ago, we launched our strategic focus for 2015-2018: “40 in 4.” Our hope and prayer was to see 40 new church planting projects and partnerships launched in four years....
