Tag Archives: Church
Christians, Politics and Gay Marriage
Christians, by virtue of their beliefs, are called to love others more than themselves. This is a high calling. The church, as an institution, is called to carry on the ministry of Jesus in the world, in the power of … Continue reading
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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Resource: Missional Manifesto
A friend on facebook linked to the following declaration developed by a host of highly influential evangelical minister/theologian’s on how exactly we should understand the word “missional”. They entitled it the Missional Manifesto. A brief aside, notice that a majority of … Continue reading
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Missionary Calling 1.01
Back in March I posted a brief introduction to the idea of “calling” as it relates to missions. I asked whether our current understanding of calling is biblical. I still have a lot of thoughts I need to articulate on … Continue reading
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Your Church and Mission
My good friend and dear brother in the Lord, Dougald, and I are working together to assist our local gathering of believers to come up with a handbook of sorts for everything our church does related to missions. Our goal … Continue reading
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From Missions Minded to Missions Active
Check out these links for churches going from being “Missions-minded” to “Missions-active” http://www.actsone8.com/atf/cf/{5C4BDE2E-3846-45A3-9CBF-8D89ABFB5231}/Mission%20Minded%20vs%20Missions%20Active_256k.wmv http://www.swazimission.co.za/English/aids.htm PLEASE ADD MORE>>>
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Enabling Ministers
Ben Arment, a pastor/church planter in NOVA, (who also was my college pastor for a couple of years, in other words, I’m proud to say I know him), posted here on how he maintains a 90% volunteer involvement rate at … 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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Church: What is it?
Please check out a post by a dear brother, Alan Knox, on the distinctions we make in Scripture regarding the church here!. I think you will be challenged. Honestly, I am a local church kind of guy still trying to wrestle … Continue reading
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