The main idea behind conVerge is that you have a mission and then you have a plan. For the most part, people agree on the mission. The mission is pretty simple, more people worshiping and following Jesus. That’s it. We can phrase it a lot of different ways, and the term mission has become popular [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2008 by nateschlomann
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In an attempt to be a better blogger, I’m going to try to post more without fleshing things out. I hate leaving things unsaid or not answering objections, which means I’m left with 25 unposted blogs over the last couple months (seriously). So here goes.
The idea of a specific calling to church planting is insulting [...]
Posted on July 8th, 2008 by nateschlomann
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This week we’re studying the importance of prayer and connecting with God from the last section of Ephesians 3. This is something our community must start doing if we’re going to be about the mission of Jesus like we want to be. Right now we’ve got a lot of people saying and thinking “we need [...]
Posted on June 17th, 2008 by nateschlomann
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Being missional involves both intent and intensity. It involves both sincerity and scope. I have discovered over the past few months that people have a relatively easy time understanding the intent and sincerity involved with living missionally, but a much harder time grasping the intensity and scope that is required to truly be missional. Without [...]
Posted on April 26th, 2008 by nateschlomann
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Well, for the summer anyway. This past Sunday we talked about moving with God and being willing to give up what we thought our life would look like for what Jesus wants it to be.
It occurred to me that some of the people in our church are about to spend their whole summer taking a [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2008 by nateschlomann
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“Every Person Matters” means that the person you don’t know matters just as much as your friends. It means the person you don’t know matters just as much as your parents. It means that the person you don’t know matters just as much as YOU. It means that if you would rather be by yourself [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2008 by nateschlomann
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We‘ve got to pray more. I don’t have a whole lot for this post or any new revelations that have made me post it. This is simply a call to more prayer for everyone at conVerge, starting with myself. As we take strategic steps to get more and more serious about the mission of Jesus, [...]
Posted on April 3rd, 2008 by nateschlomann
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Church as an organization has really messed up a lot of things. Because most of us have only been involved in local churches that are organizations, we read scripture from this point of few. Take 1 Corinthians 12.
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Most of us consider Paul’s whole analogy of the body and everyone using his or [...]
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by nateschlomann
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As the ministry of conVerge Church becomes more and more public, I find myself obsessed with defining what we are about as a church. In one sense I fear that as we get off the ground running with the “business” of church, we will all tend to revert back to systems and institutional structures that we [...]
Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by nateschlomann
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Well, I guess I can do one of these posts now. I honestly don’t know where to start. I feel relieved, elated, excited, frustrated, hopeful, fearful, encouraged, humbled, awestruck, and tired all at once.
Relieved – We all made it through, everyone did fantastic, and we launched our church. So many unsung people played their [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by nateschlomann
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