How Racial and Ethnic Diversity is Shaping the Future of Church Planting The Send Institute Missiologists Council gathered to discuss the most important topics affecting a missiology for North America. In this video, the council discusses how race and ethnicity aren't just merely social constructions, but rather are deeply complicated concepts that need to be
The Metrics of Mission: How to Count What Counts Five examples of kingdom behaviors that should be quantified. Numbers can be deceptive. Everyone knows…
Community Restoration and a Holistic Gospel About ten years ago I walked into an Urban Outfitters store when I had the sudden realization…there is…
Adopt Missional Gestures, Beware of Missional Postures By Keelan Cook “Don’t make that face! If you do it enough, it’ll get stuck that way!”…
Are we seeing the shift from addition to multiplication reflected in church planting systems and structures? When Ed Stetzer wrote what was the first edition of Planting Missional Churches, he originally named it Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age. But postmodern terminology only lasted a few years before quickly disappearing. Instead, the publishers renamed
Defining a Multiplying Church What is a multiplying church? Evangelical church planting organizations across North America now commonly acknowledge that the greatest bottleneck in…
How Cultural Attachments of Yesterday Diminish Our Effectiveness Today Evangelism in a postmodern context is predicated on listening well. Ask any veteran of the…
On July 23, the Send Institute convened a gathering of 17 thought leaders and heads of some of North America’s large and influential church…
How Evangelistically Effective is Church Planting? In 2002, pastor and author Tim Keller published a brief article entitled “Why Plant Churches” that has since become a…
Resonate(ing) Influence: Reshaping the Collegiate Ministry Landscape When people hear the names Washington State and the University of Idaho in the northwest, they likely…