Category: missional church
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Diaspora’s 3rd & 4th Baptisms, yay God!
“All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to […]
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Church is Hospitality
Thinking about hospitality this week as we enjoyed it on many fronts over a couple of days. Friday evening a bunch of Diaspora’s people came for potluck dessert at our place. We ate, chatted and laughed and then we took the hospitality on the road as new friends and old went to Upstanding comedy at […]
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The First Multiplication of Diaspora
[November 2016] We’ve done it. We multiplied! Or I should say God has done it. Our church plant which began with one disciplemaking community is now two. This is exciting and God has led us here. It’s actually been a couple of weeks now. But the excitement is still fresh. The first morning our multiplied […]
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What Did Jesus Have in Mind?
“What did Jesus have in mind when he commissioned the church to make disciples of all nations? A missional understanding of this commission requires us to see Jesus tactic as to mobilize a whole lot of little versions of himself infiltrating every nook and cranny of society. He seeks to do this by reproducing himself, […]
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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 time, some who are becoming more connected, others who come off and on, those who we […]
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Pt. 3, If The Church Is The People
then we, the church/the people, read the Bible. Not just a leader or a preacher or a Sunday school teacher read the Bible, everyone does. At Diaspora, we read the Bible, a lot. The Bible is a love letter from Creator to Created. It tells us of His love, plan, hope for us, and how […]
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Pt. 2, If The Church Is The People
…then we are the church when we gather for a worship service and also when we gather for other parts of life. For example, one Saturday morning, we did gather for worship and in the afternoon we gathered for theatre. Both were gatherings of the church. One saw us sing some songs about following Jesus. The other […]
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Church Around the Kitchen Table
Think of church as friends gathered around a kitchen table or in a living room instead of seated in an auditorium – that’s what we find in Diaspora. People in various stages of following Jesus gathering organically instead of organizationally. Gathering in places that are hospitable, warm, real, and personal. We meet in homes, comfortable […]
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Stick With It
[a post from November 2015] Every church wants to be faithfully fulfill its mission. They want to succeed. Most would say they want to see disciples made and the Kingdom of God here on earth. But we go about it in a variety of ways. There are different emphases, different programs, philosophies, and organizations to […]
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Food, Definitely Food
One of the key aspects of Diaspora is food. We eat, we snack, we dip, we potluck, we BBQ, we gnosh, we graze, we unabashedly enjoy our food! It’s not just the eating either. It’s the conversation and the laughter and the lives opened in breaking bread together. Jesus spent a great deal of time […]