Many churches are going back to in person meeting but with reduced numbers. But the reality is that many people are not going back. They may be in some sense
Easter is the most important celebration in the Christian calendar. For several years, Diaspora has set up an Easter prayer experience in a physical location with stations/rooms for people to reflect and pray through the last days of Jesus life
A Family Gathers
[thanks Rick for the pics!] The phrase we use most often to describe Diaspora is “an extended family on mission”. Our family includes a wide variety of people. We have a core of them who are with us almost all the
Still Wonderful After All These Centuries
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit… Matthew 28:19 Baptism is part of making disciples. Jesus commands us in Matthew 28 to
Churches Need R & D Departments
[a post from 2015] “Every church should have a Research and Development department – that is, a forum for dreaming, where nothing is impossible, and no thought too outrageous. And every authentic missional church will experiment like mad in order
Lowering the Bar on Sunday Morning and Raising the Bar on Discipleship
[a post from April 2015] Okay, so that’s our paraphrase of a quote I read from Neil Cole. I think I read it first in ORGANIC CHURCH but I also found it when I read CHURCH 3.0. Cole says on