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 [...]

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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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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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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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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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Imagine life without the ubiquitous @. It is not hard to do, if you can think back to the late 80s and early 90s.  Twitter was non-existent, and email was scarce. Oh sure, the accountants of the world were used to that symbol.  It had much value to them:  “at the rate of” $10.00 for…. [...]

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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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