This is a slow couple of weeks for travel, which means I will be catching up on some things at the office. Sleeping in your own bed for a whole two weeks in a row is quite an accomplishment. ;-)

I will be doing some local church speaking. For the next three Sundays, I am in different churches-- and also preaching at one church on a Monday.

A few days ago, I mentioned the upcoming discussion on the Emerging Church. Click here for more info and registration details.

I am in Minneapolis today. It is odd to be back in the town after being here a few weeks ago at Bethlehem Baptist Church, then watching the bridge collapse on national television, and now returning a few weeks later.

Yesterday, Earl Creps spent all day with the Evangelical Free Church national leadership in their first ever "missional summit." We are meeting at Grace Church, a huge church in Eden Praire, MN.

More tomorrow... I have to go back to the meeting room, which, oddly enough is the choir practice room that seats 300... so, hopefully I won't just be "preaching to the choir," but we will be "provoking one another on to love and good deeds" (Hebrews 10:24).

This morning, we unpacked ideas of God's mission, the sending nature of God, biblical fidelity, the sending of the church, and the Kingdom. It is exciting to me that a whole denomination would bring its national and regional leaders together to ask the hard questions about how to be intentionally missional in their approach. There are about 200 leaders here wrestling through what it means to be a missional movement.

Tomorrow, I willl post my next "Meanings of Missional" post.

In the meantime, let me direct you to a few articles or posts that I think provide helpful context for the missional conversation.