The Church and the Pressures of the Age

Today I begin a series of posts related to my forthcoming book Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church (Thomas Nelson).  Lord willing, the book is to be released in July.  Until then, I want to give you a glimpse of its contents.  For a quick overview, see last month’s post [...]

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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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I want to draw your attention to a new resource that was recently published, One Bible, Many Versions.  Dave Brunn spent over 20 years in Papua New Guinea with New Tribes Mission serving among the Lamogai people through church planting, literacy training, and Bible translation. Among his works is a complete translation of the New [...]

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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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Is it about. . . coolness being hip small groups glorifying God rental property making disciples starting a worship gathering keeping the 4 billion in mind beginning in the harvest fields marketing, mailers, and music reaching the unreached peoples developing the best web site in town preview services and grand openings looking at the field [...]

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Lord willing, my next book will be released this July.  Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church (Thomas Nelson) addresses twelve of the most significant global issues influencing our mission.  I wrote this work to call attention to these matters and make some general suggestions regarding how we should respond as [...]

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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 [...]

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Lord willing–this September–Baker will release the book Developing a Strategy for Missions: A Biblical, Historical, and Cultural Introduction.  I am delighted to share this news with you.  John Mark Terry and I co-authored this book as a part of the Encountering Mission series.  In this post, I want to give you a bit of the [...]

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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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I can’t read Hebrew; it is too hard. So, the professor begins his class with, “Let’s not attempt to read the book of 1 Chronicles today, but let’s start with the Hebrew alphabet.” Dad, I can’t ride your bike; it is too big. So, the father begins with, “Maybe we need to get a bike [...]

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