I am about to enter into two intensive weeks of summer classes. Next week, I plan to be teaching Church Planting Models, followed by Church Multiplication Strategies. Since my models class is on my mind at the moment, I have decided to do a couple of posts on the topic. We live in […]
Contextualization
In this post, I do not wish to be an alarmist, nor do I want to create a work of fiction and claim it to be a reality. I do want to be proactive and begin a conversation. For sometime, I have been concerned over something that I believe will become a […]
C5 Contextualization: Coming to a North American People Group Near ...
If you did not catch Critical Issue #5 first mentioned on February 15, you can read it HERE. Now we come to Critical Issue #4: The Challenge of Contextualization. When the church planters noted this issue they were referring to the difficulties experienced in effectively communicating the gospel and planting churches in diverse contexts. They found out that church planting […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #4 The Challenge ...
Cowboy church planters? Some say they go too far in contextualization, doing something avant-garde simply to draw a crowd. Others say they have taken the concept of the homogeneous unit to an extreme, only planting churches for cowboys, and then raise questions such as, “Do we then need to plant […]
Jeff Smith On Cowboy Church Planting
When it comes to reaching Muslims with the love of Jesus, few individuals are as widely known as Dr. Phil Parshall. He has an international reputation as both a missiologist and a missionary. I found him to be a gracious gentleman who loves Jesus and loves Muslims. Recently, Phil gave me […]
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