Over this past week, I have posted about issues related to urban missions. While I hope to do more in the future, I wanted to conclude this series by addressing a matter that I believe is a critical missing link to urban missions today, particularly in western contexts. This issue […]
Church Planting
Where are the least reached cities in the United States? The answer to this question is that it seems to depend on to whom you are speaking. What I have found to be the case is that anyone serving in an urban context believes his or her city is the […]
Least Evangelical U.S. Metro Areas
In this post, I want to draw your attention to the recently published book Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers by Ed Stetzer and Warren Bird. Stetzer is the president of LifeWay Research and Bird directs the research division at Leadership Network and teaches at Alliance Theological Seminary. Both of these men […]
Interview with Ed Stetzer on Viral Churches
Since I just completed a series on diaspora missiology, I thought it would be appropriate to inform you of a new book that you need in your library. Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee have written ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (NY: Metro New York Baptist Association; […]
ethNYcity by Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee
We now come to the final post in this series on discipleship and church planting. I want to encourage you church planters to write and publish more in this area. Excellent resources are greatly needed for teaching people obedience in the community of a new church with new believers. I […]
Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 6-Return Them to the Field ...
I once watched a television program about a particular bird that was raised in captivity and never knew its mother. The scientists who nurtured the animal did all they could to imitate the mother bird, even using bird puppets to feed it. When the time came to reintroduce the creature […]
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