Poverty Statistics for the United States
I am interrupting my current series on North American church multiplication strategies to write this timely post. I just received the latest statistics from the U. S. census on poverty in the United States. Unfortunately, the news is not good. Also, you can already find related articles in The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. The eighty-eight [...]
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The Church and Adjectives
I ain’t no good at English. I’m doin’ much better now that I have been writin’ fur some time. Maybe it was because I grew up in Appalachia. Maybe it was because I took advanced English in high school simply because the courses dealt more with literature and less with English. I think I was [...]
Church Planting Model Mania-Part 1
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 [...]
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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Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #4 The Challenge of Contextualization
If you did not catch Critical Issue #5 first mentioned on February 15, you can read it HERE. Now we come to Critical Issue #4: The Challenge of Contextualization. When the church planters noted this issue they were referring to the difficulties experienced in effectively communicating the gospel and planting churches in diverse contexts. They found out that church planting methods as advocated in the books of the [...]
Jeff Smith On Cowboy Church Planting
Cowboy church planters? Some say they go too far in contextualization, doing something avant-garde simply to draw a crowd. Others say they have taken the concept of the homogeneous unit to an extreme, only planting churches for cowboys, and then raise questions such as, “Do we then need to plant churches only for NASCAR fans? [...]
Phil Parshall Reflects on Missions and the Muslim World
When it comes to reaching Muslims with the love of Jesus, few individuals are as widely known as Dr. Phil Parshall. He has an international reputation as both a missiologist and a missionary. I found him to be a gracious gentleman who loves Jesus and loves Muslims. Recently, Phil gave me a few moments of his [...]
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