“When I think about the future of missions, I think the local church is the key component for missions and for seeing people go to the mission field.” “We want to engage the local church in reaching the unreached.” What role does the local church play in global missions? Watch this video from Pioneers to [...]
A back and forth between Trevin Wax and Kevin DeYoung has once again highlighted the ongoing proclamation vs. presence debate. Their missiology is showing. Trevin has some nagging questions about DeYoung and Glibert’s new book What Is the Mission of the Church?: Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission And DeYoung responds [...]
Part 2 of a two-part story on the shaping of one man’s missiology. Because of the truths mentioned at the end of my previous article, much changed for me, and by proxy, for my little church back home. Too much changed to list it all here because everything changed. A few notables: • Having come [...]
Part 1 of a two-part story on the shaping of one man’s missiology. The cheesy line applies to me: If you had told me a few years ago what Iʼd be doing now, I wouldnʼt have believed you. I grew up in a Baptist church, learning about missionaries in Royal Ambassadors (RAs) and hearing stories [...]
Whose orders do you follow on mission? Upstream’s own Caleb Crider argues in his TheMissionBook.com article, Spirit-led, that a follower of Christ should unabashedly obey the direction of the Holy Spirit. “Forget ‘unreached people groups,’ your ‘strategic focus,’ or ‘what works,’” he writes, “our only guide for mission is the Holy Spirit.” Crider points to [...]
What does it mean to be led by the Spirit on mission? At The Upstream Collective, we often talk about the importance of being led by the Holy Spirit. We believe this is how God administers the church’s efforts as missionaries. But how does the Spirit lead? For starters, the missionary impulse is of God. [...]
It turns out that your philosophy of mission may be more influenced by the social sciences than the Bible. Recently, there’s been some discussion around the web regarding the influence of anthropology on popular missiology. It’s an important topic that is rarely considered by most churches. Upstream’s Ernest Goodman has written extensively about the subject, [...]
Early in our recent Prague/Budapest Jet Set trip, I was facilitating discussion from our Jet Set guidebook on the concept of the sending church. Then one of the travelers with us for the week said he didn’t see how the concept of the sending church made any sense at all. Instead, he offered it should [...]
One of the most prominent topics of our conversation on Sojourn’s Jet Set trip has been the concept of Business as Mission. To give you a grasp of this, picture church-planting teams made up of a blend of members. Some are focused exclusively on the structure and strategizing efforts of developing a vision for the [...]
One cold Anchorage night Brent Williams arrived at Brian’s parent’s house to find Brian’s dad had a gun to his head. It had been about a year since the leadership of Mobberly Baptist Church of Longview, Texas, had sent Williams and his family to Anchorage after developing a vision to plant a church in the [...]
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