Tag: Jacob’s Well
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Vibrant Institutions: Jacob’s Well
Faith and Leadership: Vibrant Institutions: Jacob's Well It's one thing to start a church; it's another to keep it going. As Jacob's Well has discovered, even the most cutting-edge, creative and vibrant church has to have organization and structure. August 28, 2012 | At first glance, Jacob's Well, a nondenominational "emerging" church in Kansas City,…
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“Deep Church” – Book Review
Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional Just over ten years ago, my friend Steve told me he was part of a core group that wanted to plant a church in my neighborhood, not far from downtown Kansas City, MO. He wanted to know if I knew of a place they could meet.…
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The Church Basement Roadshow – Kansas City, MO
Tera Yakel sent me an email announcing that: Jacob’s Well will host the Kansas City leg of The Church Basement Roadshow A Rollin’ Gospel Revival on Sunday, July 13th at 7:30 pm in the sanctuary. The tour featuring Tony Jones, Doug Pagitt and Mark Scandrette will hit thirty-two cities across the U.S., with a message…
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“Intuitive Leadership” Book Review
What might leadership look like for the Church in the 21st Century? Tim Keel, pastor of Jacob's Well in Kansas City, MO, writes about the mission of the Church in his book Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor and Chaos: To be missiological in a post-Christendom world is not to be more committed…
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Tim Keel Book Signing
If you live in the Kansas City area, you might want to drop the Barnes and Noble on the Plaza about 7:30 this evening. Tim Keel, pastor at Jacob's Well, will be having a book signing for his new book Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos. I haven't read the book…
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Postmodern Youth Ministry Conference
I got back from PCUSA General Assembly Council meetings last night. Then I rushed out to Mid-America Nazarene University in Olathe, KS, for a worship service that was part of the Postmodern Youth Ministry conference led there by Tony Jones of Emergent Village. The worship team from Jacob's Well did the music, and Mike King…
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Emerging model: A visit to Jacob’s Well
From Christian Century: Emerging model: A visit to Jacob's Well. In 1998, a close friend told me that a small core group wanted to start a church in the neighborhood where I lived and worshiped. Melissa and I were attending a Presbyterian Church (USA) congregation (Roanoke Presbyterian Church) at the time and working to create…
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Emergent (Part 4)
Yesterday I wrote that the Emergent Church seems heavily populated by Meyers Briggs intuitive types. I differentiated them this way: “Sensing types are highly observant of the factual details around them. Intuitive types are introspective as they scan the environment for patterns of organization.” Sensing types tend to value words like sensible, practical, realistic, and…