Theology on Mission

What is the core of discipleship? Is it information about Jesus? Is it following the actions of Jesus? Is there something missing from this equation? Fitch and Holsclaw discuss the important aspect of "seeing yourself in another story" in the process of discipleship. Only in a conversion of our imagination, immersed in a different story of the world and ourselves, can we truly begin to follow Jesus.

Have we lost the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr? Have we assimilated him into the American Dream, losing the Dream he had for America? David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw sit down with local pastor Pierre Keys and student-activist Josiah Daniels to talk about the past and future of the Civil Rights Movement.

What makes your community tick? What is the glue holding you together? Is it what you THINK of God or what you DO with God? Kicking off the New Year David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw talk about how church's can not longer merely gather around common beliefs but common practices (practices that promise the very presence of Christ).

FROM THE *MISSIONAL COMMONS* hosted by Northern Seminary and Ecclesia Network. In this special episode, Mandy Smith talks about the process of preaching to and through vulnerability.

FROM THE *MISSIONAL COMMONS* hosted by Northern Seminary and Ecclesia Network. In this special episode, Matt Tebbe leads us in considering that proclamation is much bigger than merely preaching, but that we need to get the gospel back into every proclamation.

FROM THE *MISSIONAL COMMONS* hosted by Northern Seminary and Ecclesia Network. In this special episode, Tara Beth Leach leads us through the slow process of letting the Holy Spirit brew in us the words we will preach (and she is quite funny too).

Should the church protest in the streets? Should the church engage in direct, non-violent action? And if so, how? These are some of the questions David Fitch and Geoff Holsclaw discuss as they wonder about the violent world we live in. They end asking, "Has the church outsourced martyrdom as its witness against violence?"

FROM THE *MISSIONAL COMMONS* hosted by Northern Seminary and Ecclesia Network. In this special episode, pastor and professor David Fitch talks about this difference between preaching and teaching, and how we need to proclaim the gospel in the pulpit, around the dinner table, and the everywhere else.

"You make void the word of God by our traditions" says Jesus (Mark 7:13). Is this slow shift from the Spirit to the Letter inevitable? "Have our denominations shifted from their spirit of mission to the letter of institution?" wonder Fitch and Holsclaw as they talk about the past and future of denominations and our place within them.

FROM THE *MISSIONAL COMMONS* hosted by Northern Seminary and Ecclesia Network. In this special episode, author, speakers and pastor Mandy Smith discusses how vulnerability and limitation is the true source of ministry effectiveness. Let us all learn to boast in our weakness. Check out her new book "The Vulnerable Pastor".