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		<title>3 Ingredients in Determining the Flavor of the Local Church</title>
		<link>http://reformedandreforming.org/2010/05/26/3-ingredients-in-determining-the-flavor-of-the-local-church/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 13:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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By simply reading through the New Testament, we can easily see that Jesus Christ died for and established the church.  Today I’m not going to focus on defining what the church is and is not and assume the existence and continuation of the local as a nonnegotiable in the work of God today (Matthew 16.18, [...]


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		<title>Community Exegesis: Observing and Reaching Your Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 11:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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Moving towards missional ministry is more than duplicating someone else’s techniques that are successful in their community.  Anyone that has been around the church for any period of time knows this happens very frequently with little to no fruit.
Writing on this very topic, Ed Stetzer and David Putnam in Breaking the missional Code, observed,
Sometimes a [...]


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		<title>Missional Churches Define and Develop Disciples of their Local Community</title>
		<link>http://reformedandreforming.org/2010/05/04/missional-churches-define-and-develop-disciples-of-their-local-community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 12:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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I imagine if we were to browse the web and read any number churches mission statements that nearly all of them would have something about reaching, saving, or discipling non-Christians. Regardless of the descriptive word used, it’s imperative for the church to ask,
What is a disciple?
What does a disciple of Jesus Christ look like in [...]


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		<title>Missional Churches Create a High Threshold for Membership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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Writing in the 4th Century, St. Augustine once quipped,
“He cannot have God for his Father who refuses to have the church for his mother.”
As we place our faith in Jesus Christ we are organically interwoven into His body, the church (1 Cor. 12.13; Eph. 1.22-23; 4.15; 5.23).  It is for this reason that one cannot [...]


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		<title>The Churches Involvement with Non-Christians is Essential to Fulfilling Its Mission</title>
		<link>http://reformedandreforming.org/2010/04/20/the-churches-involvement-with-non-christians-is-essential-to-fulfilling-its-mission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jesse</dc:creator>
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The churches level of involvement with the community is generally indicative of their involvement with non-Christians.
Even though a church’s involvement with the community serves as a gauge in determining their involvement with non-Christians, there are many other factors to consider why non-Christians do not readily identify with a particular local church – apart from the [...]


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