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The Send Institute partnered with the Church Planting Leadership Fellowship to launch the Hispanic Church Planting in North America Research…
R.I.P “Back to the City” Movement? by Keelan Cook It’s official. The “back to the city” movement seems to be…
Staying on Mission: What Missionaries Can Teach Us in Post-Christian America A former Anglican bishop tells the story of when…
Don’t miss Accelerate on September 10-11, which is a two-day workshop for any denominational, associational or network leader to understand…
How Should We Think About Declining Denominational Numbers? There’s more that matters than just the numbers. by JOHN DAVIDSON Are…
Don’t miss Accelerate on September 10-11, which is a two-day workshop for any denominational, associational or network leader to understand…
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Ecosystems of the Kingdom In scripture, Paul used the imagery of a body to illustrate how believers should be unified…
5 Churches That Shouldn’t Reproduce by Jeff Christopherson There is legitimate reason to caution against a universal plea toward blind…
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…