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By Richard Hamilton, August 1, 2009 1:12 pm

Jonathan Brink posted this video of Matt Carter (from Austin Stone Community Church) earlier this week. Take a look see.

Matt Carter // Missional Small Groups from Todd Rhoades on Vimeo.

I really admire the missional movement, and in many ways consider myself a partner in that thread. Too much about how we typically do church is me centered. Unlike the attitude modeled by Jesus, we are constantly concerned about what we get out of it. (On a semi-related thought, check out this post by Brian Jones. My friend Jason Bedell also chimed in on the subject.)

We are on the verge of launching a college ministry at Castle Hills. Our driving force in this launch is engage students in the restorative work of God in this world, not to provide the cool Christian hangout for college students in San Antonio. I will post more on our college ministries philosophy in the future. For now, let me know what you think about “missional small groups”.

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By Richard Hamilton, February 15, 2009 10:26 pm

On October 24, 2008 I posted “The Timely Death of Words: the failure of language to capture the life of a movement” about the drawbacks of attaching a title to a movement. Movements and words are dynamic and nuanced and they often have difficulty converging. Alan Hirsch, self-proclaimed “missional activist” wrote a piece for Leadership Journal called “Defining Missional”. Not surprisingly, Alan does as good of a job as is possible of defining “missional”. While I’m not big of labeling everything to death, the article is a good read. It is also accompanied by missional family tree.