Resources on David Fitch

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, Missions, Church Membership, Sanctification

3 Characteristics of Missional Preaching

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Preaching

Emphasizing the importance of missional preaching, David Fitch says a multi-site cannot be missional for three reasons: preaching is always local, preaching demands a response, and preaching is better when we know the person.

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Preaching, Missions, Video

Project Versus Presence

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

David Fitch, church planter and pastor, discusses the difference between "Looking for a Project" and "Developing a Presence" and how that shapes congregational formation and discipleship within a local context.

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Love Your Neighbor, Evangelism, Missions

Building Blocks for a Missional Ecclesiology

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

In this article, David Fitch writes on how the theology of the mission of God, or "Missio Dei," affects church leadership and ecclesiology.

John 20:21-23

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Trinity, Missions, God's Will, Doctrine

Exploring What It Means to Be Sent

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Scripture

David Fitch explores Luke 10:1-2, 9, 16-17 and John 20:21-24, observing that “being sent” by God through Jesus by the Spirit into the neighborhood, we "bring the authority of the Kingdom with us."

Luke 10:1-2, 9, 16-17; John 20:21-24

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Kingdom Of God, Missions, Submission, Vocation

Missional Church is Nothing But …

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

David Fitch argues against a conception of missional church as just regular Sunday worship with some justice projects added on. Rather, missional church is focused on being present among our contexts.

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Church, Justice, Missions, Evangelism

When They Will Not Come

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Scripture Meditation or Sermon, Article about Church Life and Leadership

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.

Acts 2:42-47

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Discipleship, Church, Community, Missions

Organize Gifts for the Neighborhood, Not the Church

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

David Fitch suggests that churches organize the gifts of the Spirit in community members (1 Corinthians 12:7-11) around "what God’s doing in the neighborhood," rather than around Sunday worship and programs in the church building.

1 Corinthians 12:7-11

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Gifts Of The Spirit, Missions, Neighbor, Discipleship

Oikos versus Ekklesia

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Worship and the Sacraments

David Fitch describes the difference between oikos and ekklesia—private and public worship—in the early church, and how practicing and integrating both can shape congregational worship today. Suggestions for congregational worship included.

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Missions, Eucharist, Witness, Worship Planning

Evangelism or Witness?

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Preaching

David Fitch challenges pastors and congregations to consider how the verbal proclamation of the gospel (evangelism) must complement a living embodiment of God's work (witness).

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Evangelism, Missions, Witness, Ecclesiology

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, Missions

The Missional Order of St Fiacre at Life on the Vine

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

Taking inspiration from gardening, David Fitch's article presents the Rule of a missional order that hopes to plant Christian communities. The Rule presents ideals centered upon fellowship, communal worship, and simplicity.

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Missions, Evangelism, Missional

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Zizek, the Space In-Between, and Mission

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Theology

In this scholarly post, David Fitch reflects on Galatians 3:28, observing that our identity is disrupted and found again brand new and alive as we walk through the "in-between" space of dislocation.

Galatians 3:28

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Missions, Identity, Stranger, Foreigner

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, Missions, Community, Discipleship

Cultivating Missional Rhythms in Community

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

How can we cultivate missional rhythms of life and discipleship among our people? David Fitch shares a list of practices to avoid and practices to direct a congregation’s imagination toward holistic, relational worship.

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Missions, Evangelism, Daily Living, Discipleship

Contextualizing the Gospel

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Scripture Meditation or Sermon

"If salvation in Christ encompasses all of human reality," says David Fitch based on Ephesians 1:17-23, we can start with various "entry points" into the gospel and eventually get to the whole.

Ephesians 1:17-23

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Discipleship, Missions, Gospel, Contextualization

What the Missional Church is Missing

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Scripture Meditation or Sermon

"The gospel is wide, deep and huge." David Fitch argues for declaring the gospel as "what God has done in Christ for the world" (e.g., Luke 4:18-19; Colossians 1:13-23), much broader than personal forgiveness.

Luke 4:18-19; Colossians 1:13-23

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Missions, Gospel, Evangelism, Freedom

There’s a “Good Tired” and a “Bad Tired”

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Scripture Meditation or Sermon

Reflecting on Matthew 11:28-30, David Fitch writes that Christians must seek to live out God's mission while discerning between the paths of "good tired" and "bad tired."

Matthew 11:28-30

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Missions, God's Will, Working For God, Rest

Missiology’s Relationship to Ecclesiology

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Church Life and Leadership

This article argues that the Christian mission is unthinkable without the involvement of the church for the church is God's chosen means of engaging with the world.

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Ecclesiology, Contextualization, Evangelism, Missional

The Telos of the Worship Gathering

David Fitch | Missio Alliance

Article about Worship and the Sacraments

Based on Luke 24:36-53, this article imagines what gathering for worship looks like and means. "Our worship gatherings must ... be encounters with the living Christ that transform us for missional engagement."

Luke 24:36-53

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Missions, Change, Holy Spirit