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 [...]

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 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 [...]