by Markus Watson | Mar 20, 2018 | Church, Culture, Formation, Leadership |
How does change happen? How do organizations and institutions change? How do churches change? The world has changed dramatically—and churches have noticed! There’s no getting around it. The way we’ve done ministry in the past—strategic planning leading to lots of... 
by Markus Watson | Jan 24, 2018 | Calling, City, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Mission, Vocation |
Vocational Connection Groups—which I began to discuss in this post and in this post—can be the key that unlocks a church’s ability to discern how God is calling them to engage their community. I call them Vocational Connection Groups because they involve three... 
by Markus Watson | Jan 15, 2018 | Calling, Church, City, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Gospel, Vocation |
It’s so important for God’s people to be paying attention to what God is doing out in the world. In the next few posts, I’ll explain how we can discover how God is at work ahead of us by means of something I call Vocational Connection Groups. But before we dig into... 
by Markus Watson | Dec 29, 2017 | Big Story, Church, City, Culture, Gospel |
As we enter the New Year we recognize a few things: 2017 Was A Tough Year No doubt, there was a lot of good that happened in 2017. But there was also a lot of tragedy. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Jose destroyed hundreds of homes and shattered countless lives while... 
by Hugh Welchel | Dec 21, 2017 | Calling, Culture, Formation, Reviews, Stories, Vocation |
This post in a guest post from Hugh Welchel, a friend of Flourish at the Institute for Faith, Work and Economics. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. In the words, of George Bailey, “Merry Christmas Everybody!” I don’t know what happens at your... 
by Markus Watson | Sep 7, 2017 | Calling, Church, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Gospel, Leadership, Mission, Theology |
My first exposure to “dualism” was in my favorite movie of all time—Star Wars! You know what I’m talking about. The dualism of Star Wars is the dualism of light and dark, good and evil. Dualism is a fancy word that basically means, “There are two things and the two...