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January 2022

January 16, 2022

The Proper Response to Being Too Church-Centric

For far too long, North America Christians have been too church-centric: We go to church...

December 2020

December 07, 2020

Saved for a Mission – with JR Rozko

Listen to the podcast on your favorite app: Or watch it on YouTube: Episode Description:...

March 2019

March 13, 2019

How to Have an Evangelistic Conversation

The best way to do evangelism is simply to ask questions. Spiritual conversations are best...

February 2019

February 13, 2019

Preach and Teach about Working Toward More Proximate Shalom

Best Practices for Pastors (Part 4). For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors...

January 2019

January 31, 2019

Help People Find their Identity in their Being the Imago Dei

Best Practices for Pastors (Part 3). For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors...

January 23, 2019

Explain and call people to the Cultural Mandate as much as you do the Great Commission and Great Commandment

Best Practices for Pastors (Part 2). For my doctoral dissertation, my research discovered how pastors...

July 2018

July 03, 2018

What is the Strategy Your Church Has for Reaching the World?

"There are two strategies to reach the world. The first one is to recruit the...

July 14, 2017

Tom Nelson: The Day I Confessed Pastoral Malpractice

"Years ago, I stood before my congregation to make a heartfelt confession. It was indeed...

April 2017

April 28, 2017

The Great (and Worrisome) Irony of APEST

There is an irony that might be missed by those who have embraced the APEST...

October 2015

October 10, 2015

Quotable Saturdays: Padilla – Mission is Faithful When it is Holistic.

“The reduction of the Christian mission to the oral communication of a message of...

September 2015

September 12, 2015

Quotable Saturdays: Darrell Cosden – Our Mission IS Our Work

“Believers desperately need to grasp why and how mission is what they, the whole people...

August 2015

August 25, 2015

We Are Sent Ones

As God Sent Jesus, Jesus Now Sends Us The Great Commission is very often pointed...

August 19, 2015

Holistic Gospel or Just Evangelism? Some Still Cling to the Latter

In a couple of previous posts, I discussed the concept of "Holistic Mission" (via Christopher...

August 14, 2015

Church Leaders: Please Affirm the High Calling of Our Daily Work

Church leaders, rightly, have a primary thing on their mind: The mandate to see people...

July 2015

July 30, 2015

A Crisis in Disciplemaking: Our Model for Church Mission

In this 11-minute video, Mark Greene, Executive Director of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity...

July 28, 2015

“Missional Fatigue” – What Really Causes This?

In interview after interview with pastors in the Missional Church movement, I'm hearing more discussions...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

How do we “Oikos” in the cultural context of the United States?

Bob Rognlien, the Director of 3DM West, wrote a post today at Discipling Culture entitled...

June 18, 2015

Following Jesus in the Everyday Stuff of Life – Jeff Vanderstelt

In this two-minute video, Jeff Vanderstelt makes the case that we won't be effective in reaching...

April 2015

April 15, 2015

Missional Already in Our Work

Want to lead a missional church? Think "vocations." The great missiologist Lesslie Newbigin stated, “God’s saving...

January 2015

January 21, 2015

The Fragrance of Suffering

Being the aroma of Christ in the world. The priest walks down the center of...

January 13, 2015

You Don’t Go to Work Alone

Years ago, a friend gave me a small framed print highlighting a verse from the...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

Some are Called to Go, More are Called to Stay

Many churches have annual Missions Conferences. For a week, we concentrate on overseas missionaries, highlighting...

July 2014

July 02, 2014

Video: Christopher J. H. Wright – What Happens When We Read The Whole Bible For Mission?

In this video, Chris Wright speaks on how we should read the Bible in light...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Contextualizing the Gospel for the Postmodern Culture

Ross Hastings, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Regent College, offers this very helpful list...

September 2013

September 17, 2013

From a pastor, To pastors: Are we doing a great disservice to our congregants?

Having been in ministry for over 20 years, I have come to a conclusion about...

July 2013

July 10, 2013

Working for God’s Best

Mark comes home from another exhausting night in the pediatric emergency room. In his mind...