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The Antioch Movement is all about multiplication and discipleship. It’s who we are. Our identity as a people is wrapped up those two things. If we are not about discipleship and multiplication then we may as well fold up and go home. Those four sentences are easy to write, easy to say, but really hard to live. For us to become a people who lives this out we need a perspective shift. Shift 1 Luke 10:16 – “The on who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me.” – Jesus Did youRead More →

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Last week we looked at the importance of hospitality in the mission of Jesus. This week we look at how Jesus calls us to radical minimum standard of being on mission with him. 57As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” 58And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”59To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 60And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury theirRead More →

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Over the last two or three months there has been one question that continues to come up: “What is a missional community?” The reason I get asked this is because we call our Sunday gathering “Missional Community” and not “church”. This fall we will be launching our “Worshiping Community” and the questions will come. As much as the question is, “What is a missional community?” it is just as much, “Why aren’t you calling your gathering church?” I want to try and answer this as fully as I can. To begin let me lay out two premises that we have: (1) words have meaning andRead More →

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Sunday night we spent some time looking into the Transfiguration (Luke 9:28-36), take a moment: 28 Now about eight days after these sayings he took with him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 29And as he was praying, the appearance of his face was altered, and his clothing became dazzling white. 30And behold, two men were talking with him, Moses and Elijah, 31who appeared in glory and spoke of his departure, which he was about to accomplish at Jerusalem. 32Now Peter and those who were with him were heavy with sleep, but when they became fully awake theyRead More →

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Not long after that, Jesus went to the village Nain. His disciples were with him, along with quite a large crowd. As they approached the village gate, they met a funeral procession-a woman’s only son was being carried out for burial. And the mother was a widow.  When Jesus saw her, his heart broke. He said to her, “Don’t cry.” Then he went over and touched the coffin. The pallbearers stopped. He said, “Young man, I tell you: Get up.” The dead son sat up and began talking. Jesus presented him to his mother. They all realized they were in a place of holy mystery,Read More →

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After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant. And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, He is worthy to have you do this for him, for he loves our nation, and he is the one who built us our synagogue. And Jesus went with them. When he was not farRead More →

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Whenever the topic of Doubt on Tap  and Coffee Doubt comes up there are a few questions that inevitably arise. The first is why do we do it? The second is almost always about how do Christians and non-Christians interact? The third question then is how do we do it? This third question is the practical one. It’s all about gathering people and conversations. What surprises me every time that I have this conversation is just how simple Doubt on Tap really is. In its most pure form Doubt on Tap is a conversation between friends. Quite simply it is friends sitting around a tableRead More →

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When I describe Doubt on Tap to my friends who are Christians they have a couple of standard objections. The first is often about the beer. The second is about how do we “bring the truth to the pagans” that come? First, it’s not about the beer. Do we have a beer or two with our conversations? Yes. But it’s not about the beer. We hold our conversations in a pub because it provides a neutral ground for people. Pubs, especially the Corner, are places where you can come and sit around a table and talk. You can do this at a coffee shop orRead More →

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On Tuesday evenings a group of people get together at a pub to have a conversation about things that matter. On Wednesday evenings another group gathers at the EMU Student Center to have a similar conversation.  They will discuss religion, politics, and anything else that comes to mind. It’s a conversation that can’t be had in polite company. So why do this? Why grab a beer or a coffee and have these conversations? Because they matter. The United States of America are not very united. We might live in one of the most divided times in our history. We have become a collection of individuals.Read More →