In C. Peter Wagner’s book, Church Planting for a Greater Harvest, he offers five “chief reasons” why we should plant churches. The second reason on the list is that church planting is a means to denominational survival. Many denominations in North America agree with this point. And with many denominations in […]
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Patrick Johnstone’s leadership has been very significant among evangelicals for many years. It is a delight to have Patrick as my guest on this episode of Strike the Match. We discuss the history of Operation World, his latest books (Pray for the World, The Future of the Global Church, and Serving God […]
Patrick Johnstone on Challenges and Changes
It has been said that everything rises and falls on leadership. Not true. Almost everything rises and falls on leadership. ———- David Sills was my guest last week on Strike the Match. Check out our conversation about his latest book Changing World, Unchanging Mission. iTunes | Android | RSS [Translate]
The Almost of Leadership
My elementary school was attached to a junior high and high school. Lynn Camp Elementary and Lynn Camp High School met in the same building and shared the same resources. Early in the morning, before the first bell, all of the kids (1-12th grade) would gather on the playground. The […]
Faster! Faster!
The conversation regarding local and global missions is an ongoing and important one. I was asked by the folks at The Upstream Collective to share my thoughts on this topic. I want to direct your attention to the full post that went live today. Inquire about missionary activity and you […]
The Where of Missions
If you are like me, then you always want your first attempt at anything to be a win. We know such does not always happen. But we want it. Even with Spirit-led innovation sometimes we have to attempt for Asia and Bithynia before reaching Philippi (Acts 16:1-12). I taught a […]
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