We decided a couple of years ago to have a church-wide day of prayer and fasting, and continue this practice once per quarter. We fast for 24 hours and pray. On that particular evening, the church gathers for a time of corporate prayer. No gathering is exactly like previous gatherings. […]
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One society I have been a member of for many years is the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS). EMS was birthed in the late 1960s when certain missiologists believed the study of missiology had moved away from an evangelical foundation and was no longer focused on missiology. According to the EMS […]
Evangelical Missiological Society
Pastors, the picture you paint is the art your people will carry. If you call your people to the nations “over seas,” but fail to call them to the 360 unreached people groups living in the United States and 180 in Canada, then they will believe the unreached people groups […]
Pastors Must Paint Wisely
One reason churches do not participate in church planting is because they believe it is beyond their abilities. And I would agree that church planting is beyond most churches as long as we use the typical western definition of church planting. When we turn to the Scriptures, we do not […]
Your Church is Closer to Planting than You Think
Complexity is not necessarily a bad thing, but it can be. In the West, disciple making, church planting, and pastoral ministry are complex matters. But they do not have to remain in this state. Whenever I speak to pastors, denominational leaders, academics, and agency leaders, they all share the desire […]
Diet of Complexity
The call to be a pastor in the post-Christianized West is a call to stand on a bridge between two worlds. The great need of the hour is to know the present, see the potential, and call church planters to move to a possible future. The great need of the […]
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