Envisioning Effective Ministry: Evangelism in a Muslim Context
I want to share with you another book that you need to add to your library. Envisioning Effective Ministry: Evangelism in a Muslim Context is hot off the press. It is the best of the best EMQ articles on what you need to know about ministering to Muslims. My friends Laurie Fortunak Nichols and Gary Corwin have edited this collection that [...]
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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 [...]
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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Evangelism: A Biblical Response to Today’s Questions
Last week, I finished working with Bette Smyth, proof-reader and first-round editor on my next book, Evangelism: A Biblical Response to Today’s Questions. This is my third book with Biblica (the artist formerly known as Paternoster/Authentic), and third work with Bette. As always, it was a delight to work with her. She ain’t done nary a bad job, and always [...]
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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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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, [...]
Interview with David Sills on Reaching and Teaching
(Okay, I know that this is my second post today. But I’m leaving for vacation, abstaining from blogging, tweeting, and yes, email. Therefore, I wanted to get this posted today.) One of the many blessings of serving with the faculty of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary is the fellowship with the faculty of The Southern Baptist [...]
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Apostolic Missionaries and the Urban Contexts
Over this past week, I have posted about issues related to urban missions. While I hope to do more in the future, I wanted to conclude this series by addressing a matter that I believe is a critical missing link to urban missions today, particularly in western contexts. This issue is the missing element of [...]
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