Developing a coaching culture

Becoming Missional

Leading in the 21st Century

Discovering a Missional Mental Model for a Mid-Level Judicatory

This paper explores new territory in considering the role of a middle judicatory like Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship  in a postmodern age, an age of discontinuous change.  Such exploration is necessary in order to provide the services and support needed by missional churches. This is only one part of a larger vision to serve the churches but certainly one with the potential for great impact.  This writer hopes that within the next decade, TCBF will be seen as the preferred source of mission, leadership, and congregational services for missional Baptist churches in Tennessee.  For this to happen, a fresh wind of the Spirit must guide and empower our efforts.

Theology of the Emerging Church Movement

If we believe that Christianity is a living faith, theology will be an ongoing and dynamic enterprise.  This means that we must take seriously not only the context of the sources of our faith (Scripture, tradition, church practice) but our present postmodern cultural context as well.  The scope of this paper does not allow for an exposition of postmodernism and the postmodern transition, but Stanley Grenz and John Franke have identified two key aspects of the postmodern situation:  the rejection of modernity and a “chastened rationality” with a resulting “demise of foundationalism.”    We are involved in a time of discontinuous change.  This is the context in which we “do” theology.