APEST and Church Planting BRAD BRISCO Over the past several years I have become convinced of the importance of incorporating…
CHURCH PLANTING READING LIST This is certainly not a comprehensive list, but when church planters ask me to suggest a few books to help…
Believers participate in Christ’s priesthood, not within the walls of the church, but in the daily business of the world. ~ Lesslie Newbigin To…
Rethinking Movement Movement is a mindset. Perhaps the very first thing that should be said in regard to church planting and movements is that…
Rethinking the Missio Dei The main business of many mission committees is to determine how to spend the mission budget, rather than view the…
The missionary nature of God is reflected in the “sentness” of the church. God is a missionary God who sends a missionary church. However, being sent…
If mission defines who Christ is, and if Christ sends us as He was sent, then mission defines who we are. ~ Albert Curry…
In this e-book, Brad presents 9 key paradigms shifts the church needs to experience when desiring to equip and activate all the people of God to engage in His mission. Every organization, including the church, is built upon underlying paradigms or assumptions. This is not the same thing as the church’s beliefs or theological systems.
The myth of a Christian culture continues to set the mind of the Western church at ease. This myth assumes that the West is,…