Strike the Match
My family and I just returned from a spring break trip to Washington D. C.. We spent the week riding the rails and buses across the city seeing the sites that the tourists are supposed to see. My favorite stop was the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. I have been an astronomy, astronautics, and [...]
Growth in U. S. Urban Population
The U. S. Census Bureau recently released some important findings on the growth of our cities. The United States has been a highly urbanized country for many years. This recent information supports the reality that the urban contexts are growing at a faster rate than the rest of the nation. Consider the following from the [...]
The Legacy of Roland Allen
Roland Allen’s writings have had an influence on my missiology. This is a bit humorous–a high church, Tractarian, Anglican making a major impact on a fourth generation Southern Baptist from the Appalachian foothills in Kentucky. Crazy. With 2012 marking 100 years since the publication of Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?, I have been taking [...]
Missional Living in a Complex World, Part 2
Last week’s post addressed the nature of missional living and what was required to live missionally. Also, here is my presentation from last week’s CORE Conference. Even if you did not hear the presentation, much of the information on the slides should make sense to you. Today, I want to share six principles for missional [...]
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Missions To, Through, and Beyond the Diasporas
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life recently released an important report on the religious affiliations of international migrants. I sent out a few tweets linking readers to Pew’s site and the fascinating interactive maps. If you have not seen them, you need to check them out HERE and HERE. 214 million international migrants [...]
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Don’t Reach Everyone with the Gospel
One of the thoughts that often arises in the minds of missionaries as they approach a city, village, population segment, or people group is, “How in the world are WE going to reach everyone with the gospel?” When they begin asking this question, they have ceased to think like missionaries. This is not a wise [...]
Thinking Missiologically on St. Patrick’s Day
Because St. Patrick’s Day is approaching, I thought it would be helpful to consider this holiday from a different perspective. First, if you have not read The Confessions of St. Patrick, let me encourage you to do so during this time of the year. It is a brief work and offers a glimpse into the [...]
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Time to Enlarge the Church Planting Table
For too long we have been guilty of making church planting a ministry for only the high capacity, high caliber leaders. These are the individuals that I describe as the 8-, 9-, 10-caliber leaders. Now, while I am all for equipping and mobilizing such church planters (I have done this many times over the past [...]
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Interview with Enoch Wan on Diaspora Missiology
I want to share with you about a new book that was recently released. Enoch Wan has produced the first comprehensive textbook on the new–yet burgeoning–area of missiology that examines the global movements of peoples. Diaspora Missiology: Theory, Methodology, and Practice is a collection of chapters by different contributors addressing this extremely important discipline. Enoch [...]
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Leadership Development: You Are What You Eat–and You Reproduce It Too (part 1)
I remember a Public Service Announcement that would air on television whenever I would get home from elementary school. It was this crazy 60-second cartoon of a strange character who would remind kids to eat healthy food. His jingle included the phrase “You are what you eat from your head down to your feet!” Leadership [...]
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