I am beginning a series of posts on the topic of missionary strategy, particularly related to North American church planting strategies. The matter of missionary strategy is regularly on my mind. Recently, however, I have been thinking, writing, and speaking about it more frequently. My former professor and friend, Dr. […]
Church Planting
By the time you read this post, the students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary are in the third week of classes. One of the courses that I’m teaching this semester is Introduction to Church Planting, and as always, loving every minute of it. I have the greatest students in the world (there […]
A Marriage Made in Heaven: Classroom and Field-based Training
While I have posted many times on urban issues, I want to turn our attention today to the rural regions of the United States and Canada. For it is here that we find over 65 million people, comprising about 20% of the population in both countries. The rural areas of North America still […]
Rural Missions in North America
I ain’t no good at English. I’m doin’ much better now that I have been writin’ fur some time. Maybe it was because I grew up in Appalachia. Maybe it was because I took advanced English in high school simply because the courses dealt more with literature and less with […]
The Church and Adjectives
If you read the first post, you know that these two posts are the result of the fact that at least three major U.S. news papers carried stories last week on house churches. In the 24 hours following post #1, I received notice that another U.S. story was published. In […]
Missional House Churches in America-Part 2
At least three major U.S. newspapers ran stories this past week on house churches. You can read them HERE, HERE, and HERE. While I was planning to write on another topic today, I revised my schedule to address this matter from my experience and research. There is clearly a growing interest among people regarding […]
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