It is vacation time for the Payne family! This means that I am unplugging from the blog, twitter, and email until sometime in July. By the time some of you read this post, I will be driving down the road, eating the family traditional box of donuts, drinking a homemade […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
This post concludes the pressure points series–the longest series I have written on this site. We have covered a great deal of territory as we looked at what I believe to be twelve of the most critical issues influencing the Church and Her mission. It is my hope that these […]
Global Engagement in a World of Pressure Points
While one post remains in this series, we now arrive at the final global issue that I address in Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church. And with today’s Supreme Court’s decision, we see just one more example of this pressure. Sexual immorality is one of […]
Pressure Point #12 Pornification of Societies
It is estimated that four billion people in the world are oral communicators. This means that those people can’t, don’t, or won’t take in new information and communicate through a literate paradigm. Orality is reliance on the spoken word rather than the written word. For most of us, this is […]
Pressure Point #11 Oral Learners
Every year, multitudes contract communicable and noncommunicable diseases that affect quality of life. Many of these diseases could be prevented with health education, clean drinking water, proper sanitation, and medical workers. While the greatest need for improved health care is found outside of the West, post-industrialized countries are not exempt […]
Pressure Point #10 Health Care
As the Church continues to make disciples of all nations–particularly outside of the West–the reality is that children and youth comprise large percentages of the populations of those peoples. The present and future realities for the Church must involve young people to a significant degree. One quarter of the world’s […]
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