I recently had the honor of giving the Scholarly Lectures Series at Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary. After they asked me to speak about apostolic church planting, I was encouraged that an academic institution was interested in this important topic. It is my hope that more schools will follow their lead. Yes, I may be available to speak to your school, too.
There is a growing and healthy interest in this subject among North American evangelicals. In fact, of all the episodes (three seasons) of Strike the Match, “The Need for Apostolic Missiology” is the most downloaded episode to date.
I want to share my lectures with you. Lecture 1, posted below, is titled “Apostolic Church Planting: Foundations.” Here I establish a biblical and missiological base for such field practice. My talk begins at 11:47. I plan to share lecture 2 in my next post.
This is an awesome breakdown of Apostolic Church Planting Movements. Almost every church and church leader is looking for an easy path to planting a church…. some for personal gain and some for the Kingdom but ultimately everyone is more concerned about large gatherings than real get down in the trenches evangelism followed up with a great commitment to disciple those that have believed. I think the real reason we build our churches the way we do in attractional and consumer driven models is because it reaches those that are not as messy as those in the margins. We love to minister to the margin but rarely do we see real lasting results because our church system and model are proclaiming a Christianity that is come and see instead of go and tell. Wonderful stuff JD love you bro!
Thank you for posting, William. You provide us with some challenging thoughts.
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