I have not dropped off of the Blogosphere again.  i have actually been working on yet another graphic, affectionately dubbed “Art’s Charts” by Marty Duren.  At least I think that it is affectionate.  Maybe I’m deluding myself again.
If I am, I can only say that life’s more fun that way.
In the meantime, I need to [...]

The Great Commission Task Force gave its preliminary report to the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention last night.  To listen to the rearrangements proposed, you would have to consider that they did choose to deconstruct… I wonder if they deconstructed everything.
This is not an endorsement or even a commentary of whether or not [...]

As you may know, I’ve been pastor of Skelly Drive Baptist Church for three and a half years now.  The stated intent when I was called, by both the church and myself, was to transition the church from what it was into a church more effective at reaching today’s society.  You can read more about [...]

I have been driven from my bloggy slumber by this awesome and short two minute video on the Missional Church.  If you already get the difference between a missional church and an institutional church, repost it for others to share.  If you don’t get it, then by all means, spend the two minutes to watch.  [...]

I drove home from Church Sunday after worshiping together with the Skelly Drive family for the first time in two weeks.  A blizzard had hit and knocked us out of our Christmas Eve service and later the Sunday morning service on the 27th.  The latter service being canceled kept everyone from being together, though our [...]

Has it really been 2 1/2 weeks since I last posted? And that just a video link?
Hmm…
Well, I haven’t lost my passion for writing.  Far from it.  I really miss it.
But I have been consumed with a fascinating task – that of leading my church through a major transition.
I plan on blogging this as well [...]

A while ago, I posted a great video as pt. 1 of a Missional Conversation between Ed Stetzer and David Fitch, but I never saw the follow up videos.
I found them today and wanted to share, so here are all of them:

Ed Stetzer & David Fitch – a missional conversation from Missional Tribe on Vimeo.
Pt [...]

I mentioned Friday that I was traveling to Jackson, TN for this conference and as you read this, I am on the road.
I mentioned that I would be blogging and twittering from there during the conference.  given that, you might want to check out my twitter feed: twitter.com/artrogers, or the missioscapes twitter feed: twitter.com/missioscapes, or [...]

Next week, Union University will be hosting a conference entitled Southern Baptists, Evangelicals and the future of denominationalism.
I’m excited to be attending for several reasons, not the least of which is that the topic fascinates me.  I am anxious to hear the thoughts of those being brought in to speak to the issue.
Further, the SBC [...]

Did I actually just say that? Yup.  I’m pretty sure I did.  I might clarify by saying that I don’t think you grow a HEALTHY church that way.
The thought process has gone, for decades, that if you have a great Children’s program and then a great Youth program, you will draw the kids and then [...]