Lifeschool 124: What to Do with Kids in Your Missional Community

Kids are great! But sometimes when it comes to having a bunch of them at all different ages corralled together, things can feel hectic and distracted. One of the most common questions we hear connected to this is, “what do you do with kids in your missional community? How do you handle them, what types of activities do you do for them etc.?” In this episode of Lifeschool we’ll help you solve this and give you a bunch of ideas on how to include your kids on mission.


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Lifeschool 123: How to Pump Up Your Missional Community

Feeling like your church small group or supposed “missional community” is a bit of a dud? They can often times get stuck as just a weekly meeting and never really become the intentional, life-on-life, daily experience they are meant to be. (Or can be!) In this episode of Lifeschool we talk about how to pump up your group and breathe new life into things.

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Lifeschool 122: How to Create a Lifestyle of Discipleship

Is discipleship about gaining knowledge, or is it about a transformed life? Is it a series of classes or, like with Jesus and his pals, was it an all of life kind of a deal? In this episode of Lifeschool, we’re gonna talk about true discipleship and look at what a lifestyle of discipleship looks like when it is all woven into the normal rhythms of your everyday life in community.

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Lifeschool 120: What Is Missional? And Why It Scares Most Pastors To Death

We still hear a lot of “missional” talk these days… It’s the sexy phrase in the church world. But what is truly missional? What does it mean, and is your church or small group really all that missional? In this week’s episode of Lifeschool we’ll define it for you–what it is–and is not, and we may pick a few scabs and pour a little salt into some wounds… Let’s get started!

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Lifeschool 118: Why Bi-Vocational Ministry is the Future of Church Leadership

For many Christians, a paid position on their church’s staff may seem like the big dream… like they’ve arrived at the “real ministry” pinnacle. In this episode of Lifeschool we’re going to talk about the future of church leadership and who should be having paid positions at the church. And how, maybe, full time vocational ministry is shifting in our time.

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