FORGE DALLAS - Empowering the Everyday People of God

God is at work all around us and He invites us to participate with Him in His mission. It’s not just the professionals who get play a part in God’s kingdom, rather God invites all people to join Him in His redeeming work. He uses moms, mechanics, accountants, artists, grandparents, & gamers.

This is a story of how God is using one person to make a significant impact in the lives of those around of him. 

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Also, We would love for you to join us at our next Forge Dallas Residency Informational. Details HERE.

Why We Do What We Do - Part 3

"Where you stand determines what you see," notoriously spoken by Deb Hirsch in this third installment of WWDWWD. What if the place you are standing right now is the very place where God is asking you to join with Him?

Ryan and Deb allow us to peek behind the curtain and see one of the core distinctives of Forge- your context, your place, matters. A lot. If it's true that the best teacher is experience, then the best learning laboratory is your current context. We place such a high value on the place you're already in because we believe that you've already been sent there by the Redeeming God.

In this video you'll hear Ryan Hairston ask, "What is the Good News to the place where God has sent you?" And in order to discover this, we must first open our eyes and hearts to see what He may already be doing-- right in front of us.

Question: After watching the video, what is the place where God has already sent you? What is your context?

You can watch the previous two videos here!

The Art & Science of Mission

There's a brand new and FREE resource available from Baker Books by Alan Hirsch. His latest, "Fast Forward to Mission", calls us to re-engage our imaginations with the very first Sent People of God. As a friend once told us, "Perhaps the way forward is the way BACK." Alan is inspiring us to do just that with his most recent work. 

““I believe with all my heart that the future of Christianity in the West is somehow bound up with the idea of becoming a people movement again. Somehow and in some way, we need to loosen up and learn how to reactivate the massive potentials that lie rather dormant within Jesus’ people if we are going to make a difference to our world.” ”

— -Alan Hirsch, "Fast Forward to Mission"

What's refreshing about this new eBook is that it isn't another ministry trend to latch onto or discipleship model to quickly integrate into a local church. Rather, it is a potent and powerful look into both the science and art of mission and how it moves- out, in, alongside, and from.

You can get it here.
Enjoy!

Embrace Your Sentness

There are two competing postures for the people of God today: a church of consumers, demanding goods and services, and a church of missionaries, sent and sending into the world. These compete for the minds of Christians. Every church functions according to one or the other. Every disciple stands on these two foundations for life, two theological bases for making decisions, two postures that shape all we do: selling or sending.

We must break away from the things that hold us back from living in fullness and sentness. How might we do this? 

On July 17, 2014, Forge Dallas will be hosting a 1 Day Event to help individuals and churches find practical ways to break away from the posture of consumerism and embrace the posture of Sentness. 

Kim Hammond, author of Sentness, will lead our conversation on this day; we hope you can join us.

For more information about this event visit: Embrace Your Sentness