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In reality, rural America is in a perilous position — perhaps in greater danger of decay and decline than many…
The missionary nature of God is reflected in the “sentness” of the church. God is a missionary God who sends a missionary…
To paint any people with a broad brush is not to see them for who they truly are. I recently…
A Shift in Methodology The United States of America has been recognized as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant missions-sending powerhouse,[1] but…
A historic opportunity is in front of us. I believe we are currently in a significant moment of time that…
If mission defines who Christ is, and if Christ sends us as He was sent, then mission defines who we…
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A Hybrid Approach to Navigating Change & Complexity Change is ever-present. Church leaders in the U.S. face rapidly shifting contexts,…
In reality, rural America is in a perilous position — perhaps in greater danger of decay and decline than many…
A historic opportunity is in front of us. I believe we are currently in a significant moment of time that will be defining for the future of the church. Moments like these happen every several generations, and I believe that right now we are in such a time…
National tragedy has struck again. The fact that you can read that sentence and not know the exact tragedy to which I’m referring is telling. We live in a broken world wrecked by pain and spirally downward at a dizzying speed – this is an undeniable reality. The…
Missionary Identity The reality is, Christians are interlopers. We are strangers and foreigners. As Christians, I believe we should always be more driven by our missionary identity than we are by our national identity, our political identity, our environmental identity, our social identity, or even our church identity.…
The myth of a Christian culture continues to set the mind of the Western church at ease. This myth assumes that the West is, or once was, a Christian culture. If the culture is Christian, there is no need to analyze its assumptions or develop a counter-cultural instinct. ~…
Bill Bright (1921–2003) founded Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC) on the UCLA campus in 1951 with the primary goal of reaching university student leaders by proclaiming the message of salvation. Over the course of the past six decades, the movement has grown from a small band of staff…
Fifty years ago, today, Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel. Like anyone of our heroes, King wasn’t perfect. Unlike most of our heroes, probably, he is among the most important Americans to have lived within our lifetime. And he helped to make…