When our team first learned about the Fresh Expressions movement in 2015, the concept grabbed our attention and filled us with excitement. As a group, we had sensed that God was doing new things in the life of our church, and we had become convinced that the Holy Spirit wanted to send us out into the community in new ways. In fact, some of our people were already doing that very thing. Ministry leaders were already exploring new opportunities to bring the church to people, as

Have you ever watched a toddler learn shapes through playing with a shape cube? It’s an amazing trial-and-error process through which the preschooler actually learns shapes. During this failing-forward experience, the toddler bangs the shape box with the different shapes. As a consequence of trying to force the square into the circle, the hexagon into the rectangle, and the star into the oval, the child learns the proper shapes to fill those spaces. I liken the process of fol