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		<title>Top 10 Reasons to Make TransFORM 2014 Your Spring Conference Experience</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jan 2014 17:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m excited to be part of the organizing team for the annual TransFORM Network conference, taking place March 27-30 at Missiongathering in San Diego, California! Here are 10 reasons to register now and join us: 10) San Diego will be warm and sunny at the end of March, when it will gray and cold where [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Shifting from Sunday Morning Stadium Seating to &#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 16:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks, David Fitch! This is such a great missional shift kind of question … Post by TransFORM Network. What do you think?]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Who/What Are the &#8220;Circuit Riders&#8221; of the 21st Century?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 18:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By now we should all be familiar with the sobering statistics about the decline of Christianity in the U.S. Less than 50% of the population now identifies as Protestant. The fastest growing religious group is the “unaffiliated,” the so-called religious “nones.” Etc. etc. After writing about this recently on the Revangelical blog, Brandan Robertson received [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fresh Expressions U.S. Has a New Facebook Page and National Gathering in March 2014</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/09/fresh-expressions-u-s-has-a-new-facebook-page-and-national-gathering-in-march-2014/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fresh Expressions U.S. is, quite simply, the U.S. expression of the Fresh Expressions movement, which started in the U.K. and has since expanded. Fresh Expressions is, by definition, a church growth movement. Where “emerging church” was a term that no longer held currency, the term “fresh expression” began to gain traction. To be clear, not [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bono and The Edge Endorse Film About Missional Pioneer</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/09/bono-and-the-edge-endorse-film-about-missional-pioneer/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 15:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Michael Frost posted this on Facebook today. It’s a new (very short) video from Bono and The Edge from the rock band U2, endorsing a new documentary film about a man Frost calls “one of the fathers of the modern Australian missional movement.” The film project is entitled Smithy: Something In Every Hue, and it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Missions vs. Missional: What Ed Stetzer Gets Wrong</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/09/missions-vs-missional-what-ed-stetzer-gets-wrong/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Sep 2013 17:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ed Stetzer, president of Lifeway Research (an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention), writing in Christianity Today this week, attempts to parse the terms “missions” and “missional.” Here’s what he says: “The two issues are distinct and yet integrated. They are not mutually exclusive, but thrive best when they are both embraced and implemented in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gospel Coalition&#8217;s Mission to Colonize the Theological Minds of the Global South</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/09/the-gospel-coalitions-mission-to-colonize-the-theological-minds-of-the-global-south/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gospel Coalition, which describes itself as “a fellowship of evangelical churches” that promotes “a mission-hearted faith,” is in hot water over its recently launched International Outreach aimed at providing “theological famine relief for the global church.” TGC, as many know, is a network of conservative Reformed churches promoting a strictly Calvinist theology. Vinoth Ramachandra, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Does &#8220;Missional&#8221; Mean? Answer: A Subtle but Significant Shift</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 14:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It’s been a while since I attempted to answer the question, “What does it mean to be ‘missional’?” When I launched this blog in May 2012, that was the first question I tried to answer. I had the opportunity to preach on this subject at The Table in East Dallas, Texas, in October 2012, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Context Is God(&#8216;s)</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/08/context-is-gods/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2013 00:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My friend Kyle Chowning has a humorous blog post today about the importance of context in communication. It immediately reminded me of a quote by marketing guru Gary Vaynerchuk from a few years ago: “If content is king, then context is God.” I wrote about Vaynerchuk’s proclamation in a January 2012 blog post on participatory [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Baptists Asking Missional Questions and Seeking New Vocabulary</title>
		<link>https://www.patheos.com/blogs/missionalshift/2013/08/american-baptists-asking-missional-questions-and-seeking-new-vocabulary/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steve Knight]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Back in June, the American Baptist denomination hosted it’s biennial Mission Summit in Overland Park/Kansas City, KS. Justin Thornbugh, an ABC-USA pastor in Indianapolis, IN, said this about the Summit (quoted from Facebook with permission): “ABC-USA is pushing us to common mission. That is what I found so fascinating at our Mission Summit. The big [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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