Time In
It has been three months since my last post. I am now in my third year of blogging, with this being by far the longest hiatus ever taken. Here is a brief update of the past few months, more details are planned to follow in future blog posts. As many of you know, last summer [...]
The Big Move and Some Previous Posts
This is likely to be my last post before my family and I move from Louisville to Birmingham, where I have the honor of serving as one of the pastors of The Church at Brook Hills (you may read about my transition HERE). The movers arrived today. We are scheduled to roll out of the [...]
New Book: Roland Allen: Pioneer of Spontaneous Expansion
I am very excited to share that my new work on the late Anglican, missionary-priest, Roland Allen, is now available. On Monday, Roland Allen: Pioneer of Spontaneous Expansion was published in light of this year being the 100th anniversary of the publication of Allen’s 1912 writing Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?. His work has [...]
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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 [...]
You Might be a Roland Allen Fan If…
You might be a Roland Allen fan if. . . you are interested in church planting movements you think about church multiplication you have strong convictions about the role of the Holy Spirit in missions you you prefer contextualized church planting over paternalism you believe in raising up leaders from the harvest you are crazy [...]
Missionary Methods: One Hundred Years Later
2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Roland Allen’s Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?. This work is a classic in mission literature. It has been a significant influence on countless missiologists, missionaries, pastors, and believers from all areas of the Kingdom. For example, if you have ever heard of church planting movements, [...]
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The Past in Review
Summer is here. And along with summer comes vacation. In light of my plans to experience rest and family and refrain from blogging, I thought I would leave you with a few of my previous posts from the past year-and-a-half. That way, whenever you are having problems sleeping over the next several days, you can [...]
Thank You!
It has been over a year since I started this blog. In today’s post, I want to say thank you for your encouragement and share a little about the site. Check out the video below:
Early Reference on Roland Allen
The year 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of Roland Allen’s classic book Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?. In honor of this event, I am presently working on a biography on the legendary Anglican. At the time of this blog post, only one such biography has been published. Roland Allen: Pioneer, [...]
Roland Allen: Part 2, His Missiology
This past week at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I gave a lecture titled “Roland Allen: The Man, His Missiology, and Missions Today.” In a blog post, it is impossible to discuss the depth of Allen’s missiology. Therefore, what you are getting here is the Cliff’s Notes verison of the Cliff’s Notes. Because I cannot do adequate [...]
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