Here at the GCM Collective, we are always trying to find and create more and more resources to come along side the church so that they can BE the church to those they have been sent to show off what God is like. Recently, we published our first eBook: Be the Church: Discipleship and...
One of the questions we get many times at the GCM Collective is, “What about kids? How do you have time to disciple your children during all this mission stuff, and what does it look like?” I have three kids, a 10 year old, a 7 year old, and a 20 month old. I own...
I found this to be very practical and a question we get often by those we train. To find the original article, you can check out Josh's blog here: Living on Mission in the Sticks Living On Misssion in the Sticks by Josh Cousineau I live in New England, which doesn’t really...
Proactive & Reactive Mission from Caesar Kalinowski on Vimeo. When starting a missional community, many will ask the question: How do we all have the same context for mission if we aren't living in the same neighborhood? Many state that they already have people in their work place, or...
Sometimes the simplest things can get lost in tradition or become over complicated due to confusion or lack of practice. Sometimes we are just too smart for our own good. The reality of who we are as Christians, the Church and as disciples, while having historical and eternal...
Simple Mission Idea: 1. Ask God to put one person on your mind who is not a follower of Jesus. 2. Quietly listen until he answers 3. When he does, because he will, ask the Spirit, "What's Next with this person?" 4. Quietly listen until he answers 5. When he does, because he will...
Why is it that even though the Spirit plays such a prominent role in Jesus’ life and ministry, and then in that of the early church in Acts, that many Christians and church leaders pay so little attention to the Holy Spirit? In most evangelical churches, the Holy Spirit...
Prioritizing Place Many start down the road of desiring to be a missional community, but one of the first things they ask is simply…”Who should we reach?” There are two modes of thought in this. People Groups This could be certain religious groups (i.e...
Back in 2005, while a bunch of us were trying to figure out what a truly "missional" church and existence would look like, The Shaping of Things to Come became the only road map we could find. That book didn't so much tell the reader what to do, but it dropped enough road signs along the way...
JR Woodward has written a book that gets to the point and one that makes its point very well. The point of this book is to move the church from merely an institution (although indeed it will stay an institution and that’s a good thing), to a vibrant community of disciples making...