“It seems to me as though churches are doing quite well at reaching a certain segment of the population that is not too far culturally from church life and culture.” “Open your eyes to who’s not being reached by us.” “… look beyond your church and the demographic that it’s fishing in and ask yourself, [...]
“A lot of churches, I think they’re like sequoia’s, you could chop them at the trunk and down they go. But a mustard tree—not so easy to get rid of.” “Measuring evidences of the kingdom would be more important than measuring the size of your building.” Join church planter, visionary and author Michael Frost with [...]
“How beautiful are the feet who those who bring good news and declare, ‘Our God reigns, through Christ.’”“God reigns whether no one on this planet acknowledges it. That is an irreversible fact, so all we’re doing is alerting people to that non-negotiable fact of history.” Join church planter, visionary and author Michael Frost with The [...]
This is the second in a series of articles on the good, bad, why and how of short-term missions. For more than 40 years short-term missions increasingly has given Christ-followers access to feed the hungry and clothe the naked worldwide for the sake of the Gospel while maintaining their jobs and relationships at home. According [...]
This is the first in a series of articles on the good, bad, why and how of short-term missions. Missions has changed. Years ago lack of technology and resources forced well-known missionaries like William Carey, Amy Carmichael, Jim Elliot, Lottie Moon and Hudson Taylor to commit their entire lives to traveling–usually by boat for great [...]
One Sunday morning Michael Anderson decided it was time his students put to action what they had been learning. On that Valentine’s Day he had been sharing with the members of his youth group about love, and presented them with a challenge. Michael split the students into two groups–guys and girls–and gave each team $10 [...]
The pastors at Westpoint Church in Winter Garden, Fla., are focused largely on “living sent.” They believe this call on each follower of Christ involves impacting those around him/her for the sake of the Gospel while going through daily life. For the congregation as a whole, this translates into meeting in a local school. During [...]
They wanted to know how to be more effective in sharing Jesus with those around them. So they went to Shiloh. Shiloh Lohmann developed Fellowship Project after learning about international church planting through his family’s time as missionaries in East Africa. When they returned to the United States and saw the status of the Protestant [...]
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