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[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

One of the most important skills is asking good questions. Yet most of us are far more comfortable giving advice, offering solutions, or sharing what we know than slowing down long enough to be genuinely curious. https://t.co/Ggv5QFODus

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

I have been working with my brilliant friend and colleague, Josh Shepherd, to develop a Neighborhood Intelligence Report that not only provides a comprehensive exegesis of your neighborhood but also includes a prayer walk guide and a guide to interpreting the report and its methodology. You will receive your report in about 10 minutes, all for $10.

We believed there needed to be a resource that would be both inexpensive and nearly instant. Once your report is complete, you can download it, share it, or save it to a profile. If you want to check it out, the link is in the comments. #church #mission

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

We all need to learn to ask better questions. #EngageTheCity #ChurchPlanting #AskGoodQuestions

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

One of the most important skills is asking good questions. Yet most of us are far more comfortable giving advice, offering solutions, or sharing what we know than slowing down long enough to be genuinely curious. https://t.co/Ggv5QFODus

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

#church and #mission in the #neighborhood

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Our deep sense of isolation in our neighborhoods is not a time-management issue, but a theological and missiological one. We have embraced a culture of placelessness, treating our neighborhoods as mere launching pads for our busy lives rather than as sacred spaces of calling and belonging. #Neighborhood #Mission #ChurchPlanting #Placelessness https://t.co/RafHvpKEtK

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Our deep sense of isolation in our neighborhoods is not a time-management issue, but a theological and missiological one. We have embraced a culture of placelessness, treating our neighborhoods as mere launching pads for our busy lives rather than as sacred spaces of calling and belonging. #Neighborhood #Mission #ChurchPlanting #Placelessness https://t.co/RafHvpKEtK

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Know Your Neighborhood: Introducing the $10 Neighborhood Intelligence Report https://t.co/a8PYaqQV2s

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

How can we help the church recognize the urgent need to rethink its approach to church, mission, discipleship, evangelism, and church planting? https://t.co/nXEtoLUHBf

[Alan Hirsch @alanhirsch]

This is happening this Thursday. Come on in KC!
Register now, hang out later!

https://t.co/yPIxiwM5xW

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Rather than a leadership text, Ephesians 4 is a body text. Paul is stating that the gifts given to the church are actually given to the laos, the whole people of God. #APEST #5Q

https://t.co/HW4zwVScev

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

#APEST #5Fold #5Q #Ephesians4 #ChurchPlanting #Mission

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Rather than a leadership text, Ephesians 4 is a body text. Paul is stating that the gifts given to the church are actually given to the laos, the whole people of God. #APEST #5Q

https://t.co/HW4zwVScev

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

Check out this Neighborhood exegesis tool.

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

I am posting this again because we had a Stripe payment issue that has now been resolved.

I have been working with my brilliant friend, Josh Shepherd, to develop a Neighborhood Intelligence Report that not only provides a comprehensive exegesis of your neighborhood but also includes a prayer walk guide and a report interpretation and methodology guide. You will receive your report in about 10 minutes, all for $10.

We believed there needed to be a resource that would be both inexpensive and nearly instant. Once your report is complete, you can download it, share it, or save it to a profile. If you want to check it out, the link is in the comments. If you do a report, please give me some feedback at [email protected] or DM me here. #church #churchplanting #neighborhood #demographics #engagethecity

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

🎯 This is so very good; take two minutes to read:

Douglas John Hall begins his little book "The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity" by dividing church history into three primary eras: the early church, Christendom beginning with Constantine, and the present. There have been two major shifts that account for this division. The first was the shift under the Roman emperors Constantine and Theodosius when the church was officially established. The church moved from a marginal position to a dominant institution in society; from being socially, politically, intellectually inferior to a position of power and superiority; from being economically weak and poor to a position of immense wealth; from being an oppressed minority to being an oppressive majority; from being an illegal religion to becoming the only religion of the state; from being resident aliens to a territorial understanding of the faith whereby the Roman Empire is considered Christian.

This official establishment characterized the position of the church throughout the remainder of the Roman Empire and then in Europe. This pattern continued in North America even though the church was only temporarily established in some places. A functional Christendom prevailed in which the church's power is experienced in terms of a cultural establishment.

The second major shift is the disestablishment of the church today that is taking place all across the Western world. The church has lost the official power it has known for so many years and is again being pushed to the margins of society. This disestablishment is considered to be a positive development because now the church can recover its identity as shaped by the Scriptural story rather than the cultural story.

During the early years of its life, the church understood her identity as resident aliens. There was a redemptive tension between the church and her culture. The church understood itself to be an alternative community that was nourished by an alternative story. This contrast community was not a community that ignored the public life of society by being reshaped into a private institution that provided an otherworldly and spiritual salvation for its members.

Rather, it was publicly subversive by a life of radical discipleship that existed as a kind of antibody in society. However, with the Constantinian shift, the story that governed the church's life and the story that governed cultural development were merged. The redemptive tension was lost as the church became part of the constellation of powers within the empire. Her identity was shaped by her place in culture rather than by the story of the kingdom of God. The end result was cultural captivity. This domestication continued in the modern period as the church took her place in culture as chaplain of society, influencing the moral and private religious beliefs of the citizens.

When one sees how the church has been absorbed into culture and deeply compromised by Christendom, it is easy to see the compelling power of the alternative community model. The renewed stress on alternative emphasizes that the church is a community that is shaped by a different story than the dominant cultural story. The word community stresses that the mission of the church is a communal affair; the church is to embody a social order that faithfully points to the coming kingdom. #church

~ Michael Goheen, from "The Missional Calling of Believers in the World: Lesslie Newbigin’s Contribution"

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

#APEST

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

APEST provides a biblical framework to activate all the people of God for the maturity of the body (helping to diminish the clergy-laity divide), and at the same time, it also provides a way to understand how our vocations fit into the marketplace or broader culture (helping to diminish the sacred-secular divide). #APEST #5Q #ChurchPlanting https://t.co/PWJB9azf2H

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

A week from today, @alanhirsch and I are doing a one-day event on Thursday, November 5th, hosted by @NewCity_Church If you are in Kansas City, come join us. #mission #church #churchplanting #kansascity https://t.co/LpltVoSabk

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

Recapturing the missionary nature of the church is crucial.

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

We often wrongly assume that God’s primary work happens inside the church. In reality, Scripture reveals a missionary God who sends us out to partner in His redemptive activity in the world. #Sent #SendingLanguage #MissionaryPeople

https://t.co/Styw0oVKla

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Most of us think we know our neighborhoods pretty well. Over time, we develop a pretty good sense of who lives around us and what our community is like. Or at least we think we do. #Neighborhood #Demographics https://t.co/jTP4nREd8D

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

Join us in Kansas City.

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

If you are in the Kansas City area, join @alanhirsch and me for a one-day event on Thursday, November 5th, hosted by @NewCity_Church #mission #church #churchplanting #kansascity https://t.co/LpltVoSabk

[Sentralized @Sentralized]

Get to know your neighborhood. #DemographicReport

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

Most of us think we know our neighborhoods pretty well. Over time, we develop a pretty good sense of who lives around us and what our community is like. Or at least we think we do. #Neighborhood #Demographics https://t.co/jTP4nREd8D

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

If you are in the KC area, I hope to see you in two weeks from tomorrow.