Category Archives: Church Planting
Blog Series on Insider Movements
On Between the Times, the faculty blog for Southeastern Seminary, a new series is being posted on a missiological strategy called “Insider Movements.” This series is being written by Dr. Doug Coleman,* a missionary to Muslims for over a decade, … Continue reading
Biblical Giving: A Concluding Overview
In the first post on biblical giving, we found that our giving is rooted in the prior and also ultimate giving of the triune God. Then, we discussed the issue of tithing as it relates to the Old and New Covenants. … Continue reading
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Biblical Giving: What are Some Principles?
Given the nature of God, and the freedom wrought by Christ in the New Covenant, what then are some principles of biblical giving? The first principle is that biblical giving transcends monetary giving. In the US, we have a worldview … Continue reading
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Biblical Giving: Does that Mean Tithing?
The first time the Bible mentions tithing is the Abraham narrative. In this account, Abram gave a tenth of all his spoils to the mysterious Melchizedek, King of Salem (Gen 14:17–24). No law though is given. And afterward until the … Continue reading
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Is Everybody a Missionary?
Thanks to Alan Knox from his blog The Assembling of the Church, I have been introduced to Miguel, a missionary from South America with Pathways International, who posts on their blog “God-Directed Deviations“. In a recent series of posts, Miguel has … Continue reading
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Interdepence and Church Planting
I’ve been reading through some key missiological works as part of the mentorship portion of my PhD. I’m starting to trace some themes that have kept recurring. Especially since the 1960s and increasingly today, missiologists have at least given lip … Continue reading
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Planting Churches Cross-Culturally — some thoughts
Hesselgrave, David J. Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond. 2d edition. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000. David Hesselgrave brings a unique set of experience, education and expertise to the table which makes him the ideal author for a book such … Continue reading
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Toward Convergence–Part 2 [Revised]
As we continue to process what was experienced this past weekend at the Convergent Conference, (See my part one here), I believe that the conference made a positive impression on all of us. Though two of the speakers have diametrically … Continue reading
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Toward Convergence–Part 1
The Convergent Conference at Southeastern commenced and closed over the past two days. Soon, you will be able to download the messages from the Seminary website (somewhere here). The conference was wonderful and better than I expected, which I expected … Continue reading
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Interested in planting churches in North America? Attend Boot Camp
The Acts29 Network is hosting a Boot Camp in Raleigh on Sept 19-20 at Vintage21 Church. Tyler Jones is the pastor of Vintage21. I have heard it mentioned that this 2-day boot camp was more helpful to some North American … Continue reading
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