Encouragement from “AND” for Austin New Church

Last week in Orlando at the Exponential Church Planters Conference a new book was released in the Exponential Series by Zondervan called “AND: The Gathered and Scattered Church“. In it, authors Hugh Halter and Matt Smay (Tangible Kingdom) wrote some incredibly encouraging words about Austin New Church that I feel really captures our heart and [...]

Missional Church – Word on the Street

ANC friend and author of the Tangible Kingdom, Hugh Halter recently made a trip to Austin to do some leadership training for area churches forming incarnational community and/or seeking to take the missional plunge. He said some great things about Austin New Church, so I thought I’d share: I had the privilege of being in [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 8 Day 5) “Fork in the Road”

As with many community groups going through the Tangible Kingdom Primer, ours from ANC were pre-existing groups (with an already missional and service oriented DNA). In addition to helping us grow in an understanding for who we should be, each of us have seen how the study could be really useful for establishing new groups [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 3 Day 6) “Hindrance to the Gospel”

Since we had Hugh Halter (co-author of Tangible Kingdom) visit with leaders  last Wednesday, we went ahead and did the discussion from week 2 in our Restore Community last night (Feel free to adjust your schedule as needed). It was a surprisingly appropriate discussion as we evaluated our own gathering and talked about how and [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 2 Day 6) – “Why do the Primer”

Last night the co-author of The Tangible Kingdom, Hugh Halter, shared with the leaders of the Austin New Church Restore Communities about the tension between being intentional in living incarnationally and forcing incarnational posture.  His advice, “Chill out”. Great advice. Sometimes we work so hard to make it happen that we sabotage our own journey… and [...]

Tangible Kingdom (Week 2 Day 5) “Incarnational Posture”

Today’s discussion might be one of the most important yet (If you haven’t, please take the time to read section 2.5 of “Tangible Kingdom Primer” on pages 40 and 41). What we’ll find is that the questions do not just point us towards an understanding of what incarnational is, but even more so it poses [...]