Be sure to read about Fuller Seminary here.
Becoming Missional is a Good Thing. The old ways are bad, so the goal is BM.
Becoming Missional is a blog to read to find what is hotter than Georgia asphalt in BM-land.
BMs are considered good for the visible church, because everyone is afraid of their church dying. That is why WELS Pastor Tim Glende plagiarizes Groeschel each week.
BMs can be identified by their sloppy clothes in church, their spikey hair, their hatred of the liturgy and the confessions.
BM heroes are Ed Stetzer, Andy Stanley, Mark Driscoll, and Leonard Sweet. There are more. They all have that crazed, just-met-Buddha-on-my-way-down-the-mountain look.
I would ask Don Patterson about the best BMs in his experience. He took a bunch of church workers to the Exponential Conference in Orlando. That would be the best collection of BMs in one place.
Steljes went there and got his spikey hair-do after that. I was going to do a Photoshop before and after, but there is a captivating show on QVC I would rather watch.
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Ed Stetzer - Ed has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents, and holds two masters degrees and two doctorates. He has written dozens of articles and books, including Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Perimeters of Light: Biblical Boundaries for the Emerging Church (with Elmer Towns), Strategic Outreach (with David Putman), Planting Missional Churches, Comeback Churches, and most recently Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them (with Richie Stanley and Jason Hayes). Ed served for three years as a seminary professor at the Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky and has taught as (sic) fifteen other seminaries. He is currently the President ofLifeway Research and Lifeway's Missiologist in Residence.
