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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In this post, I want to share with you a few helpful books that I’ve come across in my research in the area of diaspora missiology. To the majority of you reading this post, the words “diaspora missiology” are new.  This growing category of missiology is the study related to the intersection of the global [...]

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With August comes back to school in the United States…. I wanted to take this post to provide you with a quick glimpse into some numbers making up the student population of the country.  I think you will come to realize that there are important missiological implications behind these figures.   The following came from the “Census Bureau [...]

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I want to bring to your attention a new resource that needs to be added to your library.  Linda J. Weber has edited the latest edition of Mission Handbook: U. S. and Canadian Protestant Ministries Overseas.  This work was published through the Evangelism and Missions Information Service (EMIS) at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College.  [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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I am writing this post at the conclusion of July 20, 2010.  It is amazing that I have been able to go throughout my entire day, even watching the news this morning, and not hear of any mention of the fact that on July 20, 1969 man first walked on the moon.  As a kid, [...]

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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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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 [...]

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