A Marriage Made in Heaven: Classroom and Field-based Training
By the time you read this post, the students at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary are in the third week of classes. One of the courses that I’m teaching this semester is Introduction to Church Planting, and as always, loving every minute of it. I have the greatest students in the world (there is your shout-out, now you [...]
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Rural Missions in North America
While I have posted many times on urban issues, I want to turn our attention today to the rural regions of the United States and Canada. For it is here that we find over 65 million people, comprising about 20% of the population in both countries. The rural areas of North America still have significant concentrations of lost [...]
The Church and Adjectives
I ain’t no good at English. I’m doin’ much better now that I have been writin’ fur some time. Maybe it was because I grew up in Appalachia. Maybe it was because I took advanced English in high school simply because the courses dealt more with literature and less with English. I think I was [...]
Missional House Churches in America-Part 2
If you read the first post, you know that these two posts are the result of the fact that at least three major U.S. news papers carried stories last week on house churches. In the 24 hours following post #1, I received notice that another U.S. story was published. In this final post, I want [...]
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Missional House Churches in America-Part 1
At least three major U.S. newspapers ran stories this past week on house churches. You can read them HERE, HERE, and HERE. While I was planning to write on another topic today, I revised my schedule to address this matter from my experience and research. There is clearly a growing interest among people regarding this expression of the Body [...]
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Church Planting Model Mania: Part 2
In this second, and final, post (see HERE for part 1), I want to provide you with some general guidelines on how to approach varying church planting models, and hopefully escape the model mania that continues to prevail in many circles. Tom Steffen’s article, “Selecting a Church Planting Model that Works” (Missiology 22 #3, July 1994) has been [...]
Canada Day and a Glimpse at Canada’s Metro Contexts
In light of the fact that today is Canada Day, I am interrupting the two-part series that I just started on church planting models. July 1 is the day when Canadians celebrate the birth of their country. While thinking of our northern neighbor, I decided to take a moment to share with your some sobering evangelical statistics [...]
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Church Planting Model Mania-Part 1
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 an age of model mania–a [...]
C5 Contextualization: Coming to a North American People Group Near You?
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 very serious issue in the [...]
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Students and Global Evangelization
Lord willing, over the next few days, I will have the privilege to speak to some of the world’s most influential people: campus ministers and college students. On Saturday, I plan to be in Columbus, Ohio and on Monday and Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, interacting with such groups. While the locations and audiences will differ, [...]
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