Missional People

This is a video I created for the church I work for, North Village Church in Austin, TX. We started a little over a year ago and it has been awesome to see people engaging in the mission of God! Going the missional route with a church plant and focusing on relationships is messy, but [...]

In chapter 1, as Jonah is on a boat, running from God… God causes a storm to come and its a pretty intense storm. In fact, the storm is so intense that these sailors on the boat who sail for a living, are just panicing. And they go to Jonah and Jonah basically asks them [...]

Neela, my daughter, is meant to be a pro tennis player. I mean, you should see her swing a spatula when she plays in the kitchen… I’m just saying the girl has got skills. So this is usually the way we see calling in life, but you need to know that while [...]

The gospel is so much greater than self-sufficiency because we can’t do this in our effort, but only through clinging to Jesus and His work on the cross because 1 Peter teaches us He died for our self-sufficiency, He died for our insecurities, He died for our inadequacies, He died for self motivation, He died [...]

Missional Engagement is defined as the continuum of intentional, on-going, Spirit-led, engagement by an individual Christ-follower and/or collective Christ-followers towards a specific person and/or people group for the purpose of demonstrating and declaring the Gospel.
Measuring missional engagement at a collective level is a matter of creating environments that explore, model, and celebrate the practices necessary [...]

John 4:13-15
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water [...]

Most of us who contribute to the Missional People website are church planters who are actively engaging in everything that is written about on this website. Michael Dennis and Tim Birdwell both work at North Village Church in Austin, TX and we are always looking for effective ways to communicate the missional concept to people [...]

Thoughts from Verge:
“Plant Jesus, not churches” -Neil Cole. Neil did a great job talking about organic movements that are centered on Jesus, not a church. He makes the case that we should be planting Jesus first and the churches will take care of themselves. Definitely a good challenge to remember that all of this… missional, [...]

The second missional principle we see in John 4 is conversation. In John 4:7 Jesus asks the Samaritan woman at the well for a drink, just testing the relational waters if you will. I guess he didn’t have to talk to her… he could have just given her a little head nod, [...]

In John 4 we see Jesus on a journey with his disciples and we see him stop in a town called Sychar in Samaria. You need to know that the people of Samaria were not well thought of by the Jews… they didn’t exactly get along. So the fact that Jesus even chooses to stop [...]