I recently did some writing on controversies in the book of Acts. Halfway through the book, the reader comes across the Jerusalem Council–a gathering born out of gospel advancement. One of the fascinating matters about this gathering is related to James’ argument. After hearing about the conversion of the Gentiles, […]
Church Planting
The school year is almost over. Our church recognized graduates this past Sunday. This is a common practice among some churches in the U. S.. We asked our graduates to stand during the worship gathering, gave them a brief challenge, reminded the church to pray for them, and had a […]
PSA: Shepherd Your Students to the Field
Four Fields of Kingdom Growth is an excellent church planting resource. I am so thankful for our brother and sister who took the time to write this back in 2007. It is a doctrinally-sound work that was birthed out of praxis, not theory, and is being used of the Lord […]
Four Fields of Kingdom Growth
We have better information on unreached people groups living in the most remote places of the world than we do of those same groups living in the United States and Canada. We know the world; we do not know our neighborhood. I recently spoke with Dr. Bryan Galloway, Senior Research […]
Discovering and Engaging Unreached Peoples in North America
I wanted to give you an update on my book Apostolic Church Planting. As I shared in February, this work is scheduled to be released with InterVarsity Press in October or November. IVP is wanting to release it before Urbana, and I totally agree. I received this rough draft of […]
Apostolic Church Planting
If the first century disciples approached disciple making and church planting with the complexity we have in the West, the gospel would have never left the Middle East. We want reach the world with the extraordinary working through complexity. But what if the way to reach the nations is not […]
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