Fire On Your Head

Join us this week for our podcast discussion with Mark Burgess, and Shaun Wissmann, both missionaries and serving in missional community in Chorrillos, Peru.

We shoot the breeze and discuss the differences between missional community and house churches.  Is it just an alternative to "big churches?"  What is a community on mission together?  When the writer of Hebrews talks about not forsaking gathering together, is this referring to attending a weekly service, or something more profoundly missed in our modern context?

Mark and Shaun also brought up some very interesting points in this discussion, about how there is no 'magic silver bullet' to community, but it takes lots of time and hard work.  Are you willing to put in the commitment and sacrifice?  In launching missional communities, or in planting house churches, by and large, are we going to the pattern of Scripture for our foundation, or looking at the culture around us and mixing it in with our desires and preferences for what an MC is supposed to look like?

This week's intro: We Are One Tonight, by Switchfoot

Recommended Books

Kingdom and Covenant,

Building a Discipling Culture and

Launching Missional Communities, by Mike Breen

Radical by David Platt

Don't forget to check out www.audibletrial.com/FireOnYourHead to download a free audio book of any of these titles.

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Join us again as Steve Bremner talks with missionary Mark Burgess about the necessity of discipleship, but also the practicalities. An important point that seemed to be emphasized is that you influence and teach people in your area of influence, and should not exclude yourself because you’re not a "clergy member".  We are ALL called to make disciples!

Is the church service the most important thing a pastor should be focused on?  What about his or her sermon?  Did Jesus teach his disciples they must have a splashy web page on the internet?  How does accountability fit into the role of being discipled and making disciples?  Is it possible to be discipled by the pastor of a large mega church through media such as internet and books?  Listen and be challenged as we discuss these and other points that came up in the discussion.

This week's intro: Game On by Disciple

Mark and Anna's blog:  http://theburgessfamilyblog.blogspot.com. Click here to check out our previous podcast with Mark.

And visit Mike Breen's blog at http://mikebreen.wordpress.com.

Books Steve mentioned in the discussion:

The Next Story by Tim Challies

Don't Waste Your Life - by John Piper

Check out this really good video

"This Is Discipling"

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This week we change gears again and interview Mark Burgess.  Mark and his wife Anna and kids have been living in Peru for a few years now, and currently are responsible for upwards of 70 people actively being discipled in their cell churches in Chorillios, located on the Pacific coast of Peru.  We talk about what it is to be making disciples and building missional communities, and why the Great Commission is not just a call to make converts, but disciples.

Are you multiplying yourself into other people?  What about those who you call ‘disciples’? Are you actually discipling others or keeping them at a distance, teaching them with words or studies, but unwilling to allow them access to you?

This week's intro: Change the World, by P.O.D.

Are You Making Disciples? article by Anna on Fire Press

Who Are You A Missionary To? by Shaun Wissmann.

Reproducers of Reproducers by Steve Bremner

Visit this great blog by Mike Breen on starting and sustaining missional communities.

Mark and Anna's sites:

The Burgess Family in Peru

Sitting Under An Open Heaven

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