Missional and Formational
P.S. Isn’t This Missional and Formational Stuff Just a Bunch of Lingo?
Friday, July 10th, 2009Part 12 of series: Missional and Formational?
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In this series on missional and formational I have been using some Christian lingo. It’s insider talk. If you went out “Jaywalking,” as Jay Leno used to do on the Tonight Show, and interviewed a thousand people on the street, asking, […]
Missional and Formational: Interim Summary
Thursday, July 9th, 2009Part 11 of series: Missional and Formational?
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So far, I’ve looked at the biblical connections between the missional and formational dimensions of the Christian life. After some initial definitions, I’ve examined these connections in the Old Testament, the life of Jesus, and the ministry of Jesus. I had […]
Missional and Formational in John 17 and 20
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Part 10 of series: Missional and Formational?
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In my last two posts, I showed how missional and formational aspects of discipleship are intertwined in John 15. When we remain in the vine, we bear fruit for the kingdom. The remaining-formational reality is inseparable from the fruitful-missional reality.
We see […]
Missional and Formational in John 15, Part 2
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009Part 9 of series: Missional and Formational?
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Yesterday I began to offer some thoughts on the intersection of missional and formational in John 15. Here, Jesus says that he is the vine and we are the branches. We will bear much fruit (i.e. fulfill our mission) if we […]
Missional and Formational in John 15, Part 1
Monday, July 6th, 2009Part 8 of series: Missional and Formational?
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Today, I want to examine a text in the Gospel of John that is profoundly missional and formational. It shows that you can’t have one without the other. Moreover, this passage reveals crucial elements of what it means to be missional […]
Discipleship as Formational and Missional
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Part 7 of series: Missional and Formational?
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In my last post I showed that formational and missional realities were both present in Jesus’ own ministry, as he took time away from the crowds to pray, and these sessions of prayer guided Jesus in his mission.
One such pray time […]
Prayer and Mission in the Ministry of Jesus
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Part 6 of series: Missional and Formational?
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If you read through the Gospels looking for connections between formational and missional, you’ll discover plenty of them. In today’s post I’ll cite and comment on one pregnant example. Consider this passage from the Gospel of Mark:
35 In the morning, while […]
The Formation of Jesus for Mission
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009Part 5 of series: Missional and Formational?
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Today I’m returning to the series I began last week: Missional and Formational? So far I’ve looked briefly at some connections between missional and formational in the Old Testament and in the early life of Jesus. Today I want to focus […]
Missional and Formational: Factors in the Formation of Jesus (continued)
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Part 4 of series: Missional and Formational?
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In my last post I mentioned that Jesus, as a carpenter, would have had to operate his business with integrity if he were to succeed in a small village such as Nazareth.
Speaking of Nazareth, Jesus spent most of his early life […]
Missional and Formational: Factors in the Formation of Jesus
Friday, June 26th, 2009Part 3 of series: Missional and Formational?
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It’s always risky to try and speak of the forces that formed Jesus and his ministry. Partly we face the problem of his uniqueness as someone who was both fully human and fully God. But efforts to account for Jesus’ own […]
Missional and Formational in the Old Testament
Thursday, June 25th, 2009As the mission of God unfolds in the Old Testament, he enters into covenant relationship with key partners is mission. In each of these covenant relationships there are both missional and formational components, and they are closely related.
Abraham
God chose to be a central player in his unfolding strategy for redeeming the world. In Genesis 12:1-3 […]
Missional and Formational?
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009On Wednesday of this week I’ll be offering a workshop at the Renovaré conference in San Antonio. The theme of this conference is: The Jesus Way: Recovering the Lost Content of Discipleship. Conference headliners include Eugene Peterson, Max Lucado, Emilie Griffin, John Ortberg, Dallas Willard, and Richard Foster. I’m honored to be included on the […]