Roland Allen died sixty-seven years ago today. Best known for his books Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours (1912) and The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes which Hinder It (1927), Allen has been tremendously influential in shaping modern missionary practices of the second half of the 20th century to the present. This Anglican […]
What do we do when we don’t know what to do? We do more of what we have been doing. Such is not the way of wise Kingdom stewards. To do more of what we know is safe. It is comfortable. It fits with our longstanding systems, organizations, strategies, and […]
More of What We Know
I recently wrote a post on the importance of doing our homework on upgs living in our neighborhoods. A failure to do this research is poor stewardship. Such omissions often mean we end up pouring more resources and people into reaching reached people groups. In this post, I want to […]
Knowing Utah: Another Excellent Example
We live in the age of the instant. We want to know what works and we want it now. In our scientific and rationalistic world, we often attempt to make ministry a science. Such is not always the case. It is not that definite. We co-labor with a dynamic Spirit. […]
Art for the River
HERE is one of the most important sites on the Web when it comes to church planting. This site does not get into this category because it is about New York unreached peoples (though that makes it extremely valuable), nor is it all that because it is connected to Global […]
Church Planting? One of the Most Important Sites on the ...
Twenty-two years ago I told Jesus I was willing to pastor His people. Twenty-two years ago. Much has happened over this period of time. Much has changed; much has remained the same. One matter that has remained for the past two decades is the priority of our disciple making and […]
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