Understanding the Gifts of Grace

Today we are going to focus on a Bible passage that I bet you skip when you read it. If you don’t skim over it now, I bet you used to. I’m just being honest here, until I began studying alongside Alan’s writing, I didn’t know it was there. It was like reading English, English, English, then (ugh) Klingon, Klingon, Klingon, then (ahhhh) English again.

Bringing Balance To The 5Q Force

Starting a church in a Starbucks in Europe, or in the open air at Bixby Park in downtown Long Beach, or doing open mic nights in a gay coffee house make for some awesome stories to tell. And…there are other moments that almost became stories, but thankfully never did. The reason for this has to do with the counterbalance that …

When 5Q Has A Mic Drop Moment

There are several mic drop moments in 5Q, moments where what we have read is so profound, we have to stop and allow it time to wrestle with our heart and minds; to give it permission to challenge our preconceptions and understanding.

Learning To Think In 5Q Colors

This week, we want to point you to The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church, as another tool you can use to help apply what you read in 5Q. In the excerpt that follows, Alan helps us engage a paradigm of “Thinking 5Q.” How do you begin to change the culture of your team? Try this! 

Diagramming 5Q as The Language Of Community

Recently, I remembered that circle and decided to design a similar image as a teaching tool. On coffee shop napkins or office whiteboards, I draw this image to represent the five-fold ministry of Jesus and His body. As I draw the diagram this is how I often explain it.

APEST in the Workplace: Seeing 5Q In Everyday Spaces

Today we are going to zombie-proof your missional calling and help you navigate 5Q where you work.  At the same time, we are going to show you how to get practical with some of the tables that you find in the 5Q book. Once you get familiar with the shapes of APEST, the core characteristics, you begin to see them functioning all around you.

Houston, We Have A Problem…Maybe?

After an amazing run with real reader reviews and some amazing guest posts, this week we wanted to return to the source and take a deeper look into a question that we run into quite often as we begin our favorite part of 5Q: Equipping and Training the Local Church.

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: How 5Q Can Revitalize Bedtime Prayers

This week, Jon Ritner, Pastor of Ecclesia Hollywood and L.A. Forge Trainer, helps us navigate 5Q through some important waters. One common issue with engaging new paradigms is simply how to move beyond the theory and put it into practice. Today, Jon shares with us how he is using 5Q to create an APEST culture in his home.

A Mature Approach To 5Q

As the 5Q Symphony continues to grow, this week we are happy to introduce Jessie Cruickshank. Jessie is apart of the 100Movements team and has co-written the upcoming workbook to help you really get 5Q going in your Church or Organization Activating 5Q. The foundational and constitutional text for the church’s five-fold ministry is Ephesians 4:11-13. When considering the text …

Guest Post: What’s In A Name?

This week, we are excited to share with you a guest post by blogger, Jessica Schrock Ringenberg. Her article, What’s In A Name?, originally appeared on themennonite.org and we are re-posting here with the permission of the author. Thanks, Jessica!  Another inspiring voice in the 5Q Symphony! We sat in the church office, confused and in tears. It was a scenario …