Multiplication Matters
One of the recent endeavors we have undertaken is a video resource for our members of The Church at Brook Hills. Multiplication Matters is a brief, weekly, equipping tool to assist our people in matters related to the multiplication of disciples, leaders, and churches. Here is the introduction to the series. A few videos have [...]
106 Representatives of Unengaged-Unreached Peoples in the United States
One of the convictions we share as a pastoral staff team serving The Church at Brook Hills is the need to integrate the worlds of domestic and international. Believing it to be biblical, we try to operate from a missiology that blurs the lines between home and abroad, domestic and foreign, while recognizing the need [...]
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Over Here, for Over There: A Future for Short Term Missions?
Imagine the possibility of future short term teams where the destination and unreached people group served over there is determined by the unreached people group your church serves over here. “Pastor, where in the world do you think the Lord is leading our church to go this year?” “Possibly Morocco. He has been at work [...]
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Unengaged Peoples in the United States
The term “unengaged” is a recent label developed to assist with our Great Commission task. According to Global Research, a people group is described as unengaged “when there is no church planting methodology consistent with Evangelical faith and practice under way. A people group is not engaged when it has been merely adopted, is the [...]
Your Church is Closer to Planting than You Probably Think
One of the reasons why most churches do not participate in church planting is that they believe it to be something grandiose and outside of their reach. Pastors often listen to the exceptional, ten-talented, high capacity church planter and assume that one must be like him to do church planting the “right” way. “We don’t [...]
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Removing the Eschatological Thread from Life
Eschatology-the study of last things–is extremely important to the health of the Church. As Kingdom citizens, we know that the Bible has much to say about people’s eternal state, the return of Christ, the end of the world as we know it, and how we should live in light of such realities. However, in the [...]
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Call Your People to Marketable Skills and Degrees
We pastors often forget that stewardship extends beyond the realm of giving money for gospel advancement. For the longest time, we have allowed the notion of being a wise steward to be defined according to money. And while the issue of finances does exist within the jurisdiction of stewardship, stewardship embraces all of the Christian [...]
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Stop Sending Babysitters to the Mission Field
They have been called: America’s Primary Mission Field World’s Most Fruitful Mission Field 4/14 Window And if that is the case, then why do we keep sending babysitters to them when our churches gather? Those who teach children are some of the most important leaders in our churches. Unfortunately, we often relegate such laborers to [...]
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Faithful-Doing When You Don’t Know What to Do
What do we do when we don’t know what to do? This is a question we ask often. “I am fasting, praying, reading the Word, seeking wisdom in a multitude of counselors, but I am still not certain what to do.” Great! Keep up such practices! Such are wonderful disciplines of disciples! “Yes, but how [...]
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566 Native Tribes in the United States
November is recognized by the United States government as American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Earlier this week, the latest numbers were released on the 566 tribes in this country. For the past three years, I have written about Native Americans (First Nations if in Canada) here at the blog. According to one estimate, [...]
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