The United States is not only one of the world’s largest countries (3rd), it also home to the third largest number of unreached people groups (a story few have heard). Over the past several years, I have noticed a very common church planting strategy that is on the minds of […]
Strategy
If you are just joining this blog, then you are reading at a time when I’m in the middle of a series on missionary strategy. Previous posts are located below: Developing a Strategy for Missions Future and Process of Missionary Strategy What is Strategic Planning? In light of our definition […]
The Big 5 of Strategy Development
In Developing a Strategy for Missions, we operate from the following definition: Strategic planning is a prayerfully discerned, Spirit-guided process of preparation, development, implementation, and evaluation of the necessary steps involved for missionary endeavors. Prayerfully Discerned The development of mission strategy is a supernatural process. While resources abound on the […]
What is Strategic Planning?
This is the second post in the series I am presently writing on missionary strategy, adapted from the forthcoming work Developing a Strategy for Missions. We define strategic planning as a prayerfully discerned, Spirit-guided process of preparation, development, implementation, and evaluation of the necessary steps involved for missionary endeavors. […]
Future and Process of Missionary Strategy
Lord willing, in just over a week from now, my next book is scheduled to be released with Baker Academic. Developing a Strategy for Missions is a work that John Mark Terry and I coauthored, hoping to fill a gap in the literature. While there have been several resources published […]
Developing a Strategy for Missions
This post concludes the pressure points series–the longest series I have written on this site. We have covered a great deal of territory as we looked at what I believe to be twelve of the most critical issues influencing the Church and Her mission. It is my hope that these […]