Yesterday was International Migrants Day. I shared several important stats particularly related to the United States. In October, I had the honor of speaking to the gracious saints of Providence Baptist Church in Huntsville, Alabama. They wanted me to discuss migration and mission during their annual theology conference. We had […]
History
December 18 marks the annual International Migrants Day. We live during a time that has been called the age of migration. While people on the move is as old as the exodus from the Garden, today’s numbers have brought the world into uncharted waters. 281 million people reside outside their […]
International Migrants Day
The image that often comes to mind whenever we hear the word “evangelist” is a Billy Graham, Billy Sunday, or George Whitefield. Maybe we think of a John Wesley or a Francis Asbury. Or, the image is that guy on the college campus stopping students on the way to classes […]
Evangelists Should Stop Spending All Their Time with Unbelievers
The biblical storyline reveals a God who remains faithful to His promises which require the ongoing sending of Himself and His servants into a tragically suffering and deeply needy world to accomplish His mission of redemption and restoration. Mission began with God, is sustained by God, and will culminate with […]
The Apostolic God
Somewhere along the way, we decided it was impossible, or at least improbable, for the Church to experience rapid numerical growth and significant sanctification. I started marking such conversations in my journey as I heard them in the United States in the early 1990s. Many of you can provide earlier […]
Pick One: Church Maturation or Multiplication–for We Can’t have Both, ...
“At the sound of the tone, the global population will be seven billion.” I was driving to the campus of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to teach a class when I heard these words on the radio. The year was 2010. The world reached another record this week–8 billion people. […]
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