Utica, New York. That’s not a city that has a cool ring to it. Tell people you are going to Utica and watch the look on their faces. Why would anyone want to make disciples and plant churches there? Two reasons: unreached people groups and least-reached area. The world is […]
Evangelism
Some people are anti-structures. They think it is cool to be against “the man,” but all for movement. However, there is no movement without structures. Structures are necessary for health and multiplication. It was true in the first century; it is true today. But, not all structures will do. Some […]
Tweaking the Structures for Movement
I am in Wake Forest, North Carolina this week at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary teaching a doctoral seminar on contemporary issues facing the Church. So, I’ve been a little slack in my blogging this week. In fact, I’m taking a break from grading papers to write this brief post. I […]
Promise Keeping God
The missiology necessary to advance the gospel in a post-Christianized context is not the same as the missiology that brought us to a Christianized context. Certainly, this does not mean a complete overhaul, but rather a building upon that which has gone before. Some things must change while we return […]
Missiology of the Moment
Liberal theological traditions have moved away from a satanology of the devil being an actual being to simply a personification of evil. Among Episcopal Church leaders, for example, the discussion of evil in the world is commonplace; a conversation about the devil is a rarity. One of the headlines making […]
Deleting the Devil
The following is the second-part of a two-part series I started last week. As a fourth generation Baptist of the Southern Tribe, I’m all about cooperation–cooperation with those of my Tribe and cooperation with like-minded evangelicals (a.k.a. Great Commission Christians) of other Tribes. Such cooperation is with other churches and […]
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