Yesterday marked St. Patrick’s Day, a date commemorating the death (461 AD) of the missionary to Ireland. If you were tracking with me this week, then you have already received several of the links below in your social media feed. For those of you who were not. . . 🙁 […]
Mission
Elders are the most influential people when it comes to churches going to the nations. However, such pastors are busy and often so focused on established church ministry they do not take time to develop the needed apostolic imagination. In this episode, I share 14 thoughts to help church leaders […]
Apostolic Imagination: 14 Suggestions for Pastors
One of the courses I teach at Beeson Divinity School is Contemporary Issues and Strategies in Missions. It is usually offered as a January class and began again today. After twenty years of training pastors and church planters, I have noticed that many struggle in the area of strategic planning. […]
5 Practices of Strategic Leaders
I return to the discussion of the apostolic imagination in this episode. The majority of evangelicals do not subscribe to an evangelistic priority when it comes to the Church’s missionary activity. The priority is no priority. This is a recent development in history. As twentieth century theologians returned to the […]
Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking Priority
I have been posting a great deal lately on matters surrounding the definition of mission, missions, and missionaries. Much of this is due to my present book project. If you are new here and curious, let me encourage you to check out the following posts: If Everything is Mission Rethinking […]
Missions Post that Will Make Everyone Angry with Me
Recently, I have been sharing thoughts about the importance of the Church using arts to advance the gospel. Last week at my YouTube channel, I posted a video on this topic. Here I discuss four ways the Church has historically approached the arts and offer some suggestions for shepherding artists […]