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Pastor Dropout: What To Do? Travis Collins | 24 Nov 2014 In a recent interview, Fresh Expression’s Travis Collins addressed an alarming dropout rate among Pastors. Being a pastor has never been an easy job, but relatively new dynamics — a postmodern and...
A Review of a Recent Vision Day 20 Nov 2014 The Fresh Expressions Team just finished a great Vision Day at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Here’s how they described it: On Nov. 14, 2014, pastors and lay-leaders came from all around our...
Convergence: a Strikingly Creative Expression of Church Travis Collins | 17 Nov 2014 I recently spent a morning with two of the most creative Jesus-followers I know—Jay and Lisa Smith. Lisa is Pastor, and Jay is Cultural Architect, of Convergence, a unique community...
Doing Something Fresh Could be a Real Risk! Kris Beckert | 12 Nov 2014 What if “taking a risk for God” were less about jumping off cliffs and going and more about examining our motives and opening our eyes to how God might be...
Four Practices that Create an Eco-System for Fresh Expressions of Church Chris Backert | 10 Nov 2014 One of the things that I love most about the fresh expressions movement is that it is not overly complicated. While there is a deep theology and ecclesiology behind it,...
What the Presbyterian News Service is Saying About Fresh Expressions 6 Nov 2014 1001 new worshiping communities is movement happening in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Here’s what they had to say about a recent Fresh Expressions Vision Day: “’Fresh Expressions’ is not ‘the’...
How to Ensure Your Neighbors Would NEVER Put Jesus’ Campaign Sign in Their Yard Kris Beckert | 3 Nov 2014 Where I live, campaign signs have become part of the landscape since mid-April. Just about all of the primary winners have allowed their yellow, flamingo pink, and multicolored corrugated cardboard...
What Duke Divinity School is Saying About Fresh Expressions 29 Oct 2014 Here’s how Duke professor L. Gregory Jones describes Fresh Expressions in a recent reflection from their Faith & Leadership page. The Fresh Expressions movement is one example of a Christian experiment that...
Surprising Benefits for Churches who Start Fresh Expressions Travis Collins | 27 Oct 2014 Some fresh expressions of church spring up on their own, independent of any existing congregation. Lots of those “independent” fresh expressions are thriving. Most fresh expressions of church, however, emerge...
Cultivating a Risky Community Welford Orrock | 20 Oct 2014 At the heart of Fresh Expressions is a culture of permission-giving. How are we cultivating a culture of permission giving? One suggestion is to continually value learning, exploration and growing...
Four Methods for Becoming a Mixed Economy Church Michael Moynagh | 13 Oct 2014 A Mixed Economy? It’s easy to go through life, only interacting with people just like themselves. For many churches is no different. There is a growing need for churches that are...
Pastors: Don’t Want to Start a Church? Do this instead. Michael Moynagh | 6 Oct 2014 Do you feel called to the pastoral ministry rather than to start new types of church? If so, your pastoral gifts may be exactly what fresh expressions of church need....

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