Gina’s guest is Dan Wolf, a former full-time pastor at a multi-staff church in Florida who left there to go on mission in one of the most post-Christian cities in America, Portland, Maine – right in the middle of the pandemic. His story is a story of how God is at work in powerful ways through everyday people in a city where the hard soil is seeing gospel fruit starting to breakthrough.
Find out more about 3DM at: https://www.3dmovements.com/
Mentioned in this Episode:
Discovery Bible Study
Discovery Bible Study is a simple method to see for oneself what the Bible says about life’s big questions.
Leading Missional Communities, by Mike Breen and the 3DM Team
A description of how to build a network of extended spiritual families that are living on mission together. Filled with lots of stories and examples, this book equips those who want to lead effective missional communities that are focused on reaching the lost and making disciples. It includes helpful information about why missional communities often fail, how to get missional communities started, and how the multiplication of missional communities can lead to church planting.
Missio Alliance Comment Policy
The Missio Alliance Writing Collectives exist as a ministry of writing to resource theological practitioners for mission. From our Leading Voices to our regular Writing Team and those invited to publish with us as Community Voices, we are creating a space for thoughtful engagement of critical issues and questions facing the North American Church in God’s mission. This sort of thoughtful engagement is something that we seek to engender not only in our publishing, but in conversations that unfold as a result in the comment section of our articles.
Unfortunately, because of the relational distance introduced by online communication, “thoughtful engagement” and “comment sections” seldom go hand in hand. At the same time, censorship of comments by those who disagree with points made by authors, whose anger or limited perspective taints their words, or who simply feel the need to express their own opinion on a topic without any meaningful engagement with the article or comment in question can mask an important window into the true state of Christian discourse. As such, Missio Alliance sets forth the following suggestions for those who wish to engage in conversation around our writing:
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We deeply desire and value the voice and perspective of our readers. However you may react to an article we publish or a fellow commenter, we encourage you to set forth that reaction is the most constructive way possible. Use your voice and perspective to move conversation forward rather than shut it down.
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One of our favorite tenants is that “an enemy is someone whose story we haven’t heard.” Very often disagreements and rants are the result of people talking past rather than to one another. Everyone’s perspective is intimately bound up with their own stories – their contexts and experiences. We encourage you to couch your comments in whatever aspect of your own story might help others understand where you are coming from.
In view of those suggestions for shaping conversation on our site and in an effort to curate a hospitable space of open conversation, Missio Alliance may delete comments and/or ban users who show no regard for constructive engagement, especially those whose comments are easily construed as trolling, threatening, or abusive.