Church Planting Model Mania: Part 2
In this second, and final, post (see HERE for part 1), I want to provide you with some general guidelines on how to approach varying church planting models, and hopefully escape the model mania that continues to prevail in many circles. Tom Steffen’s article, “Selecting a Church Planting Model that Works” (Missiology 22 #3, July 1994) has been [...]
C5 Contextualization: Coming to a North American People Group Near You?
In this post, I do not wish to be an alarmist, nor do I want to create a work of fiction and claim it to be a reality. I do want to be proactive and begin a conversation. For sometime, I have been concerned over something that I believe will become a very serious issue in the [...]
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Students and Global Evangelization
Lord willing, over the next few days, I will have the privilege to speak to some of the world’s most influential people: campus ministers and college students. On Saturday, I plan to be in Columbus, Ohio and on Monday and Tuesday in Louisville, Kentucky, interacting with such groups. While the locations and audiences will differ, [...]
Apostolic Missionaries and the Urban Contexts
Over this past week, I have posted about issues related to urban missions. While I hope to do more in the future, I wanted to conclude this series by addressing a matter that I believe is a critical missing link to urban missions today, particularly in western contexts. This issue is the missing element of [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 6-Return Them to the Field Immediately
We now come to the final post in this series on discipleship and church planting. I want to encourage you church planters to write and publish more in this area. Excellent resources are greatly needed for teaching people obedience in the community of a new church with new believers. I case you missed the first [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 5-Teach Healthy Disciplines as Soon as Possible
I once watched a television program about a particular bird that was raised in captivity and never knew its mother. The scientists who nurtured the animal did all they could to imitate the mother bird, even using bird puppets to feed it. When the time came to reintroduce the creature to the wild, many artificial [...]
Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 4-Teach Obedience
The previous posts in this six-part series can be found here: Part 1-Set the Example Part 2-Keep it Simple Part 3-Begin at the Individual Level Teaching obedience does not require complex paradigms, diagrams, and charts. It does not require advanced degrees. It does require us to know our people, to know ourselves, to know how [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 3-Begin at the Individual Level
In case you missed the previous two posts in this series, here they are: Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 1-Set the Example Discipleship and Church Planting Part 2-Keep it Simple There is a real temptation for church planters to concentrate their efforts on discipleship at the corporate level first, assuming growth in Christ will trickle down [...]
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Discipleship and Church Planting: Part 2-Keep it Simple
In the first post in this series, I discussed the importance of missionaries setting the example before new believers. Now we come to the importance of keeping it simple. Church planters must work diligently to keep the discipling process simple, such is the biblical way. Keeping it simple means teaching biblical depth. The same apostle who practiced [...]
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Apostolic Missiology: Part 4-It’s Not About Church Planting
We now come to the final post in this series. I believe this is one of the most difficult posts to write, because I know how personal this material will be to many people. Remember, I’m right there with you. But while some of you may not be able to make such radical ministerial shifts [...]
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