By Brian Orme

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On a recent flight to Orlando I picked up a copy of Rolling Stone and found myself glued to a bitter article about the mix of faith and politics. In the story the journalist wrote a scathing piece that called out Christianity as one of the worst things in American character. As I read the story I found myself checking over my shoulder, wondering if the man beside me thought I was in agreement. The story was so vitriolic that I felt guilty even reading it, but I felt like I needed to. Read the rest of this entry »

By Ashley Wolpert

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In a culture that feeds off a vast array of social justice causes, it seems that the term missional living is being bandied about increasingly in our churches. But what does this really look like? Recently Dr. Ed Stetzer, co-author of Compelled by Love: The Most Excellent Way to Missional Living, spoke with Neue about what exactly “missional living” means, how church leaders can encourage their community live missionally and what some major barriers are. Philip Nation, Stetzer’s co-author, follows with a list of practical tips to help communities engage in missional living.
How would you define “missional living”?Missional living is essentially living with our primary perspective as that of an ambassador for the Kingdom of God. It means making our lives not about us, but about Jesus and His Kingdom.

In an alliterated sense, missional living is an incarnational (being the presence of Christ in community), indigenous (of the people and culture) and intentional (planning our lives around God’s agenda) focus on the power of the Gospel to bring the reign of God into people’s lives.

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Hey Guys and Girls! Let’s get right to it… we’ve been trying for the last couple of months to come up with a series for small group and we’ve found one. Rather Alex has made one, after all Pastor Drost says he’s good at it so why not?

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<— The following are exerts from an article by Brian Orms called A New Shade of Green —>

Let me be honest: I never used to think much about the environment or global poverty issues, really. Most of my activist leanings were stunted when I was young and heard a few evangelical leaders rave against environmentalism because the earth was going to be destroyed anyway and the ills of the liberal-social-gospel. So why worry about it? That let me off the hook. It was nice being off the hook … for a while. Read the rest of this entry »

<—– This is an exert from The Dilemma of Loving Your Neighbor by Brian LePort, a article on relaventmagazine.com. We discussed this topic along with a few questions from Pastor Alex. —–>

When Jesus of Nazareth boiled down the Jewish Law into two primary commandments—loving God being first and foremost and loving your neighbor as one would love his or herself being a Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome to the reThink blog! We hope this will be a tremendous resource for you guys in the coming months. We will have our past small group discussions and other interesting topics posted here as well as an events page that will make it much easier for you to grab details and directions for each event. There is also a Contact page if you need to get in touch with one of the reThink leaders or if you want to put on the email list. Let us know what you think of site, your feedback is very important to us! If you have an idea of how to improve the site or you have a suggestion for an event, let us know.

Also, you can see i’ve included a Flickr PhotoStream on the site so we can all see pictures from our past events. If you want your pictures to show here, set up an Flickr account(it’s Free) and tag your photos with “rethinkyag”, and they will show here on rethinkonline.com! I’ll be honest… these first few I just stole from peoples Facebook and MySpace pages, so if you don’t want me to use them or have an objection to that let me know and I’ll gladly take them down.

See you all soon!