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How Secularity Will Advance the Gospel of the Kingdom Religious pluralism has provided space for the Gospel to be heard.…
Preparing to Innovate In the 1987 movie The Untouchables, Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner, is tasked with bringing Al…
CHURCH PLANTING READING LIST This is certainly not a comprehensive list, but when church planters ask me to suggest a…
Why We Need a Church Planting Manifesto By Jeff Christopherson We make statements every day. Most are quite unassuming—small facts…
Apostolic Imagination: Rethinking the Language of Mission I recently started a series addressing the need to rethink contemporary evangelical missions. In this…
How to Lead Well as a Church Planting Leader Three tips from my own experience as a church planting leader.…
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Moving Past the Rhetoric of Multiplication “We need more planters.”I hear it more than in the past. I can remember,…
Increasing Evangelism in Church Planting There’s no question that church planting has become the hot new thing. And I’m glad.…
Communicating Across the Racial Divide Dying to Self In recent years, we have seen the emergence of Black Lives Matter, a group fighting for issues that concern blacks. In response, some whites began to push the ideas of All Lives Matter to emphasize a colorblind approach to racial…
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…