Taylor Hammett

Husband, Dad, Disciple, Speaker, Teacher, Writer, Thinker & Pastor, and most recently a Church Planter @NorthEndATL

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"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."  - @ANNELAMOTT

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Goodness, y'all! Just imagine for a second what your neighborhood and city would look like if Jesus followers did this kind of thing year around!!!

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The missional opportunity of Halloween: a🧵

Is there any Holiday among us more missional than Halloween?

✅Walk + talk in your streets with actual neighbors
✅Open your home (or at least your front door) to strangers

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✅Give small gifts away to everyone regardless of status/need
✅Meet new people and form ongoing friendships ✅Stand around eating and drinking and laughing together
✅End up talking about things that really matter

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@bradleybrisco Not sure why this isn't getting traction since the church needs to hear this sooooooo much right now. Even "mission" has been consumer-ized by the church.

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@bradleybrisco Keep on posting and say it louder for the folks in the back.

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To effectively check whether or not you're serious about engaging in this kind of missional innovation, ask: Is our church willing to support these innovative efforts with real dollars from our church's financial resources? 8/8

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Missional Innovation + Imagination

There are seemingly endless opportunities to engage in missional innovation once the church is free to operate outside the limitations put in place by a church's programs and property.

The challenges, however, are at least two-fold:

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How could we use our place to love our neighbors even if they don't love God? Or maybe try this: What program could we invite our members to create for the sole purpose of engaging our neighbors outside our piece of property.

Then ask this question: 7/8

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There was no worship gathering this Sunday at North End Collective, but there was most definitely church happening around a coffee cart and waffle bar at our house yesterday.

Thankful to those who made this moment possible!
#lovewhereyoulive #thechurchhasleftthebuilding

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@mattdabbs That's good, Matt! & I hear you about it not being the finish line (this is such a necessary paradigm shift for so many) but I wonder if thinking of it as the start line discounts the disciple's journey that begins with the simple decision to follow Jesus in the first place?

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THE COLLECTIVE UPDATE | July 26, 2023 - https://t.co/pyo4mOPE9X

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Read this entire thread. All of it. Every word. 💯

This shift in thinking is a return to Scripture’s missional framework and is foundational for the church if it is to be serious about engaging the post Christian and increasingly secular age.

[Brad Brisco @bradleybrisco]

We need to stop perpetuating a misguided view of church! 🧵

If God is a missionary God then we as his people are missionary people. Therefore, the church doesn’t just SEND missionaries; the church IS the missionary. Individually and collectively we are the sent body of Christ.

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@bradleybrisco Your tweet game has gone from good to great over the past couple of months Brad and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it!

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@bradleybrisco Oof! I both love this and resist it. So hard but oh so necessary.