Since writing Strangers Next Door, people continue to ask for stories of the gospel reaching not only people who migrated but also stories of them returning to their countries of birth with the gospel. While I share some stories in the book, we all desire more of them. Baptist Press […]
Strategy
Here is one for you electronic book aficionados–or if you are somewhere in the world where receiving parcels has its challenges. Apostolic Church Planting: Birthing New Churches from New Believers was released earlier today for Kindle. I hope you will get a copy or let someone know about it. As […]
Apostolic Church Planting Now on Kindle
A few years ago, I wrote about the potential of Kingdom citizens putting their culinary skills to use for global disciple making and church planting. We can go to the world through the stomach. NPR recently reminded me of this potential when they did a story on an Omani cookbook […]
Wanted: Cooks for the Kingdom
Everyone wants to go to the cool places in the United States. The New Yorks, Seattles, Miamis, and Los Angeleses. There are many unreached people groups living in such locations. And we must continue to go to these places. But the cost of living in such communities prohibits some church planting […]
Consider the Uncool Places
Baptist Press released a story last week about the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention considering setting aside one million dollars for church planting and revitalization efforts. What makes this newsworthy is that the vision behind the money is based on the use of the wisdom and experience of returning International […]
A Vision of the Possible with Southern Baptists in Texas
Music is one of the artifacts of Western civilization that continues to manifest itself in Majority World contexts (A conversation tonight with a South-Asian brother reminded me of this reality.). For example, I have written about the internationalization of bluegrass music and Kingdom potential. At that time, I drew attention […]