There has always been change; the opposite of that word is death. But today, change begets more change. Its increasing momentum is ever before us, and the shifting realities can be unsettling. So how do we respond?

We could run for comfort of course; seek shelter in nostalgia or some static, reinforced zone of “Unchange.”

Or we can meet the change head-on and interact with it. We can retool, realign, and reestablish our voice for a postmodern mind and a post-Christendom context. This is my choice, and I commend the adventure of it to you.

The postmodern era brings us a world that deconstructs established institutions (including the church) and longs for mystery rather than simple equations for life. Monologues must be traded for dialogue; conventional wisdom for innovation; dogmatism for open spirituality; the mapped-out for the uncharted. How do we discuss the age-old gospel in such contexts?

Let’s find out. In these pages, I seek to interact with you via the electronic word. Just beware my dyslexia and the blunders it invites! Fear not, however. There also will be video, as I walk the streets and talk with everyday people; audio, particularly through my weekly teaching at Grace Point; and pictures that are often worth a thousand words. In other words, this page itself is a postmodern response to the questions of the day. My disability has actually driven me toward embracing the multimedia expressions that postmodernity favors.

This world has shifted even since you began reading this page. Together let’s chart the changes in real time.

About Grace Point

Mike and Lori McDaniel were serving as missionaries among the Tonga people of Zambia when the vision of a new church took shape in their hearts.

Before Africa, the couple had pastored for six years in two congregations. During four years of service as church developers with the International Mission Board, they had evolved in their conception of the biblical New Testament church. Zambia, however, forced them to dig deeper and strip away countless America-based presuppositions about the nature of a church.

To help Zambian Christians plant and nurture their own congregations, they’d first have to have the clearest and most biblical concept of the local body of Christ. For four years they grappled with that issue, allowing God’s Word and Spirit to reinvent every old assumption. As the days passed in Zambia, they realized the deep craving of the modern church for a fresh touch of God.

The McDaniels realized that God, having called them from America to Africa, was now bringing them full circle—to carry their lessons from across the world and replant them in American soil. A new church and perhaps a new movement would take root, using global lessons both contemporary and timeless, uncompromisingly biblical yet radically community-shaped.

In July 2001, Grace Point Church was started with a handful of catalyst followers of Christ. These believers all shared the same burden, vision, and calling to reach the unchurched of Northwest Arkansas with a ministry that would ripple outward to infect all nations with a passion for Christ.

Grace Point never claims to be the perfect church, simply a corps of active believers listening to God and ready to move forward in carrying out his will in a needy world.”