One of the questions Matt and Hugh often received following the launch of that book was “Loved the book, but how do I get my community to do that?” The newly launched The Tangible Kingdom Primer is our effort to help small groups and churches do just that. It is an 8-week guide to creating missional and incarnational communities.

If you would like to receive a free copy of the Primer, please contact us at: books{AT} crmleaders.org. Please provide your name, the street mailing address you would like it delivered to (no P.O. Box please) and your email address. In the subject line, put Tangible Kingdom Primer Blog Copy.

I recommend you at least check them out. If you visit twice, they will probably take you out for the “coffee talk” and lay things on the line about what to expect and not expect from the church.

Just so you know, they will be in the “emerging” stream of Christianity, so they will challenge and encourage you to live like Jesus by loving and serving others in your community. If that is what you are looking for, it may be a good fit. If you want a church that is fully in line with dispensational, Free Grace theology, you will probably be disappointed.

When you go, make sure that when you get there, you grab some food and some coffee and be proactive about going up and meeting people and talking with them. Don’t just go find a seat! They consider the pre-service fellowship as an integral part of their “Sunday worship.”

If you go, say hello to Matt Smay and Hugh Halter (the authors of the book). I have been exchanging e-mails and phone calls with them, and think highly of both.

If you go, please send me an e-mail about what you thought! Thanks!

Wow! Its in Denver (we Google mapped it) and its not that far, what do you think? The better half and I have been searching for an “different” community of believers. Its not that we don’t love our current church, but there is not a lot of relational connection due to the elders not leading the small group efforts. A friend has been to the “Scum of the Earth Church” and recommended we go there. So we may do both this month.

I’ll shoot another note after we go…

Grace and peace brother,

Jim