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. […]
Strategy
If you follow me on social media (or have recently read this blog), then you know Jon Hirst and I took the past six months to offer webinars on various topics related to innovation and mission. It was a great journey as we interacted with this matter and several participants […]
Free Innovation in Mission Training
Contextualization is vital to Kingdom labors. A great deal of energy and effort is expended every year among missiologists and missionaries who discuss this topic. And I do not believe we should ever cease talking about it. No one is culturally neutral. All of our disciple making methods and strategies […]
Reducing the Stumbling Block before THE Stumbling Block
Missiologists and mission agencies operate from two unreached people group lists: 1) global unreached people groups; and 2) global unengaged-unreached people groups. The global unreached people group list receives a high strategic priority when it comes to global disciple making. The global unengaged-unreached people group list receives an even higher […]
Needed: The Most Urgent Unreached List
The present Syrian crisis has left 13 million children without schools. No school = no traditional education. But who says the present paradigm that brought us this far has to be the one to carry us into the future (Lord willing)? I read an article of a plan to use […]
6 Parts of Kingdom Innovation
This post concludes my three-part series (part 1, part 2) on the early Moravians. Today I draw attention to some of the places they served and elements of their missionary methods. The Moravians had a global vision and acted upon it. Missionary activity was not something they simply discussed; it […]