The trustees of the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention voted this morning to call David Platt to be the next president of the agency. While I am saddened that I am losing my pastor, I am delighted to hear of this news. They made the right decision. […]
Church Planting
This week I’m at the Multiply Louisiana conference in New Orleans. I promised everyone I would post the slides from my plenary session and breakouts. While some of the slides will not make sense outside of the conference context, I am making these available to you as well. In the […]
Presentations from Multiply Louisiana
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 […]
Surprise! Go to Utica
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
Short-term missions is long overdue for an overhaul. Projects abound. Many of us run throughout the world doing great ministry in many needy parts of the world, but little mission takes place. Some of us have made great strategic progress in the area of short-term missions, recognizing the value of long-term […]
ReThinking Short-Term Missions
Hasty expectations hinder the birth and multiplication of churches. Plant your churches, just make sure they have all of this stuff, and these structures, and these activities, and these twenty-five marks, and these forty-one purposes, and this affiliation, and give that amount of money. Such is okay when we start […]
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