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Membership Has Its Practices

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Worship and the Sacraments

David Fitch presents a new perspective on church membership: instead of requiring a specific level of sanctification upon joining, congregations should make the commitment to practices of community central to membership after joining.

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Community, Mission, Church Membership, Sanctification

Signs the Spirit Has Left the Building

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Scripture Meditation or Sermon

David Fitch suggests that trying to control the activity of the Holy Spirit, or judging the spirituality of others, may be signs that the Holy Spirit has left.

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Community, Holy Spirit, Spirituality, Fruit Of The Spirit

When They Will Not Come

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Scripture Meditation or Sermon and 1 more types

David Fitch writes on Acts 2:42-47, arguing that community is the foundation for all we are as the church and for God’s mission to the world.

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Discipleship, Church, Community, Mission

Should We Gather? When?

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

David Fitch shares the importance of public worship gatherings, that they are "part of something much larger going on," and why it is important to discern the dynamics of worshipping within the neighborhood.

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Community, Neighbor, Discernment, Worship Planning

Youth Groups Destroy Children’s Lives

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Children or Youth Ministry

David Fitch says children and teenagers need relationships with adults in which they can grow into a vital relationship with God, and that youth groups often work against this goal.

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Culture, Community, Spiritual Growth, Relationship

The Kingdom Starts With Communities

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Sermon Preparation or Illustration, Book Quote

In this article about why sending out individual missionaries is all wrong, David Fitch explains why churches should focus on sending out church communities. The article can be used in a sermon series on missions.

Jeremiah 29:4-7; 1 Peter 2:9, 3:15-16

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Church, Kingdom Of God, Community, Mission

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Reading the Bible Together When We Don’t Agree

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Scripture

Using Acts 15:1-30 as a model, David Fitch proposes replacing a top-down, expert-based approach to interpreting scripture, with discernment by the community, leading to a decision that "seems good to the Holy Spirit and to us."

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Community, Discernment, Holy Spirit, Interpretation

A Warning List For Those Who Would Join a Missional Church Gathering

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

Missional churches may not fit people's expectations of "church." David Fitch offers ten things that anyone who joins a 21st century missional church should not expect.

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Church, Mission, Community, Discipleship

Not a Program

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Scripture

This article based on Luke 16:19-31 and Matthew 25:31-46 discusses the importance of seeing the poor not as charity cases, but as equals and family within the church community.

Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 16:19-31

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Charity, Community, Love For Others, Poor

Crime-Ridden Neighborhood Transformed by Praying Church

David Fitch | Preaching Today

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Sermon Preparation or Illustration

In this sermon illustration for Matthew 18:19, Mark 9:28-29, or Luke 18:1, David Fitch shares how the a crime-ridden neighborhood was transformed by prayer and an eventual church plant.

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Prayer, Crime, Community, Intercession