Yearly Archives: 2019


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In this post, I continue my Apostolic Imagination series with some thoughts on rethinking purpose and missions. You may find the previous two posts HERE and HERE. Biblical Purpose is in Biblical Language As long as we continue to use extra-biblical language to describe the work of the Church, we […]

Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking Purpose and Mission


Steve Addison is my guest in this final episode of season 4. Whether the conversation is about disciple making movements or church planting/multiplication movements, missionary conversations often revolve around the topic of movements. Steve is an expert on this topic. And we need to hear from him. Steve is the […]

Steve Addison on the Rise and Fall of Movements


Like many of you, I have been grieving the present conflict within the United Methodist Church. While I am very thankful for the result of yesterday’s vote, my heart breaks that such a matter had to come to the floor of a national meeting. I am not a member of […]

Oh! That they would continue in the Spirit of Wesley ...



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Canada is home to the 6th largest number of unreached people groups in the world. Global Gates is one organization that is passionate about reaching such groups that have migrated to places such as North America. In this episode, Chris Carr, director of Global Gates Canada, is my guest. We […]

Chris Carr, Reaching the Unreached in Canada


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I recently started a series addressing the need to rethink contemporary evangelical missions. In this post, I ask that we rethink our language. The language of mission, missionary, and missions finds its origin in the sixteenth century. Originally applied to the Jesuits, such language is rooted in Latin referring to […]

Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking the Language of Mission