So Leslie and I have been in Istanbul for three days now, and it’s been a fun but sobering experience. It’s always fun to travel abroad and experience new foods, culture and people — especially without the responsibilities of caring for young children. But as a student of movements and global mission, I am deeply disturbed [...]
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As I prepare for church planting training, a theme keeps coming up. It’s paralleled my and my simple church planter friends’ journey so far. It’s this: before we can talk about church planting movements and organic churches, we need to go further back; then, back some more. My friend, Lyle, had a fantastic analogy to [...] One of the blogs I follow is that of Guy Muse, an American Southern Baptist simple church planter in Ecuador who is more of a cultural outsider as a missionary kid born in South America and longtime missionary to Ecuador. This causes him to be quite a provocateur for the North American branch of the SBC [...] I realize that is heresy to evangelical Christian culture. Post-reformation evangelicalism has always emphasized the pulpit in its architecture and the sermon in the Sunday event. Even to this day, the sermon takes the lion’s share of the Sunday event. Also, people today are subscribing to podcasts and listening to sermons online (as the [...] |
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