Exponential NEXT Podcast Episode 12 Series: The Next Chapter for Leading Microchurch Networks Stephen and Lucia Barr share their journey of starting Cast Member Church, a microchurch movement focused on
Proximity. It’s not a word we throw out often in everyday speech. I don’t remember once telling my son at the grocery store, “Go in proximity to the bread aisle
Pos·ture /ˈpäsCHər/ (Oxford Dictionary) A particular way of dealing with or considering something; an approach or attitude. The position in which someone holds their body. As I’ve gotten older, now
Microchurches are extended spiritual families. They don’t just form overnight. They emerge over the course of time as loving disciplemakers incarnate within networks of relationships, plant the gospel, and make
Although “movement” has undoubtedly become a buzzword in our culture, it has some pretty specific implications in the missions world. Chief among them is the core element of multiplication. Disciple
What if microchurch movements could be an avenue for refounding (à la Hirsch) the church on the person of Jesus in its original movemental form, which was a decentralized, multiplying
A few years ago, a ministry friend and partner of mine was attending the Exponential conference in Orlando when he overheard a conversation between two prospective church planters that went
Older paradigms of student ministry were focused on centralized expressions that required the next generation to be good inviters. Gen Z believers are hungry for more. They recognize they’re living
Every year, more than one million young people will walk away from the Christian faith. The young people in America are considered to be the first post-Christian generation in our
Moses tells the people of Israel in Deuteronomy 6:4-5, “The Lord, your God, the Lord is one,” and “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul,
