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Verlon Fosner

Three Tips for Hosting a Dinner Party Like Jesus Verlon Fosner | 12 Nov 2018 For many homes, dinnertime has been revisioned as TV time. We have lost the power of the dinner table to shape society. Even the church has lost how powerful a...
How We Learned to Reach the Missing 1/3 of Our City Verlon Fosner | 7 Aug 2018 The day of my “Macedonian call” experience started off as an ordinary day. I left my office driving to an appointment. At that time I was serving as the lead...
Why the Church Needs New Wineskins Verlon Fosner | 19 Apr 2018 Missiology is the equal blend of theology and sociology. However, most church leaders went to seminary to become theologians not sociologists. It is not unreasonable that most would prefer to...
“We’re Not Alone After All!” Verlon Fosner | 15 Dec 2017 Over the last two years, Fresh Expressions US has been growing, in part to the inclusion of likeminded initiatives such as the Dinner Church Collective. This growth came, part when Dinner Church founders Verlon...
If the Reformation Church is Waning, What Comes Next? Verlon Fosner | 31 Oct 2017 The following excerpt is from an upcoming article to be featured by our friends at Missio Alliance. The full article is a part of their Always Reforming series which you can follow...
One Simple Reason Dinner Church is Trending Verlon Fosner | 26 Oct 2017 For the first three hundred years of Christianity the church functioned primarily around dinner tables. In the book of Acts, the church was found breaking bread from house to house....
Why Christians Should Tithe Into Poverty: God’s Age-Old Plan for the Poor Verlon Fosner | 21 Aug 2017 There is a disturbing trend among American Christians of blaming the poor for their condition. Margaret Poloma and John Green researched the attitudes of AG people toward the poor in...
Remembering Our Responsibility: Learning to Serve the Poor Verlon Fosner | 3 Jul 2017 How should the church respond to the call to serve the poor? Many Fresh Expression Churches will have the opportunity to engage with people from the lower third of the...
Missional or Mission-ish? Verlon Fosner | 17 Apr 2017 There is a lot of talk today about being missional. But what does that mean? If a church group does an outreach once a year, does that make them missional? If...
Towards a Relational Sociology Verlon Fosner | 1 Mar 2017 The Reformation Era has left us in an interesting place. Exactly 500 years ago Martin Luther posted his 95 “protests” on the Wittenberg door, and with that the “protestant” movement...
Discover a Historic, Thriving Way to Do Church—While You Eat Verlon Fosner | 5 Jan 2017 We live in a day that holds deep assumptions about the way church is done. We assume exclusive religious spaces, teaching-centric gatherings, congregational liturgies, and musical worship experiences. The reformers...
Overlooked Open Doors for Fresh Expressions in America Verlon Fosner | 10 Oct 2016 The topic of starting new churches today needs a more honest discussion about “place.” A review of the past one hundred years reveals that almost all new churches have been...

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