I've been blogging about The Upstream Collective and their Jet Set Tours happening this Spring over the last few months. In case you missed it, here's an explanation from Upstream Collective.

The Jet Set Tour isn't your typical mission trip. Then again, the people you'll meet won't be your typical missionaries.

Jet Set Tours, hosted in various cities in Europe, provides a week-long opportunity for you to experience a European culture, not only through tourism, but by learning about the people. Prayerwalk the streets of Barcelona's Gothic neighborhood. Meet with artists in Rome. Talk to a Christian businessman about what church is like in Zurich. Ask a professor in Madrid about the worldview of the students he teaches.

Continue reading The Beauty and Brokeness of Rome.

The Compelled by Love blog tour took a stop at the Dallas Morning News. Philip Nation wrote a few thoughts on our book, Compelled by Love: The Most Excellent Way to Missional Living (New Hope, 2008), in the Dallas Morning News religion blog.

He wrote ten things... I excerpted a few here:

1. Understand the Gospel. The mission of God is consumed with the person & work of Christ. As you understand Christ, you can accurately participate in God's work of redemption. So read the Gospels - a lot...

4. Watch for a chance to serve. People give away all of their energy on family, work, and menial chores. Look for ways that you can care for your neighbors - even if it is just cooking a simple dinner for them...

6. Love like Jesus. He lived a robust life of caring for the lost. In elevating sacrificial love far beyond any previous thinking, he gave an example for us...

10. Do it for one reason - the glory of God. The only reason for be missional is to make Christ more widely known. God is worthy of being honored by all of creation and it should be the main reason why we participate in his mission.

You can read all ten here.

The blog tour so far:

PhoenixPreacher.com,
Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox,
Alan Hirsch's blog,
Andrew Jones's Tall Skinny Kiwi,
Darryl Dash,
Micah Fries,
Marty Duren's Iemissional, and
David Fitch at Reclaiming the Mission.