Tim Catchim

Its amazing what you find when you start digging into church history. I have been on a 6 year journey of studying the atonement, and it was ...

In The Permanent Revolution: Apostolic Imagination and Practice for the 21st Century Church , we talk how the church is facing an adaptive c...

The Missional Commons Ever participated in the Missional Commons? This will be my first opportunity to hang out with some folks in the ...

At last! After a lot of hard work, a practical resource for engaging the five-fold ministries of apostles, prophets, evangelists, sheph...

Lord of the Flies,  William Golding’s novel about a group of boys stuck on an uninhabited island, remains a classic. What at first seemed l...

This article by Paul Bowers is perhaps one of the most profound articles on the movemental nature of the gospel. It is rare to find a missio...

One of the defining characteristics of missional communities is how they organize their  rhythm of life  around being on mission to a parti...

Founding a new community will lead you to encounter unusual levels of chaos. New people, new places, new plans, and new priorities are just...

I have recently been diving into the work of Rene Girard. Needless to say, it is like tumbling down a rabbit hole. It engages so many other ...

So I ran into this guy at Exponential this year named Peyton Jones. Turns out, he has a really cool book on APEST. I love this guy, his per...

Sentralized is about helping the missional conversation move beyond theory. It is about to inspiring and propelling the church to engage in...

In the previous post, we looked at the implications of the word APO for understanding how apostles are wired, and consequently, their approa...

It is amazing what kind of implications you can draw from the etymology of a word. I have been grinding over the word APOSTLE the past few...

It is only within the past few years that I have really come to realize the necessity of being part of a larger network. There are a lot o...

In looking at the metaphors Paul uses to describe his apostolic function and role, it is an interesting exercise to think about how these te...

As I reflected on the metaphors Paul used to describe his relationship with others, I also came across language that was not so egalitari...

This is one of the earlier diagrams I was working on at the forefront of the project. I was fascinated by all the metaphors Paul used t...

Warning: You are about to enter a "PLUG" zone. One of the coolest projects I have been a part of in the past 10 years was co-au...

In  II Corinthians 3, Paul is looking to contrast his style of ministry with the super-apostles style of ministry. Perceiving themselves as...

In Part 1 and Part 2 , we looked at how Paul, in chapter 3 of II Corinthians, contrasts the super-apostles “agent” style of ministry w...

In Part 1 , we looked at the dilemma Paul faced in Corinth when it came to legitimizing his apostolic ministry. Without the conventional ...