Category: The Local Church

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Creating Space [For What’s Necessary]

Well, we’re nearing the end of July and plans for the upcoming year are starting to take final form. I’m not sure what this process has been like for you, but for us, there have been a lot of changes, edits, additions and subtractions from the model of ministry we were serving out of last year.

In a lot of ways I think our ministry models need to be in a constant state of flux, always with the ability to change in order to better meet the needs of the students we serve, as it seems most appropriate and feasible.

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Competing Missions

In a previous post I explored the question: Are we the local church OR an arm reaching on to the campus?

One of the big reasons I tend to believe that we are an ‘arm’, and not the local church, is because of the context — and more specifically — who controls it.

Campus ministry is, to a certain extent, subject to the academic institution. Unlike the local church, campus ministries will have to — again, to a certain extent — play by a certain set of rules… that they have no say in creating.

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Hocking Jesus

I wrote this blog post after returning from a mission trip with eleven students. It is mostly in response to a deep conversation we had about what will happen when the students leave college. See, they get it – they’re tired of churches that are more concerned with creating their own world rather than changing THE world for the sake of The Kingdom.

So as our students walk across their stages and receive their long-expected degrees, will there be a church they can be part of? Will there be a movement of Jesus followers who actually pray as Jesus taught us… and believe it?