The difficulty the church is experiencing today in relating to the current culture is in large part due to our Christendom heritage. Many in the church today still believe Christianity is in a place of influence and significance.
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The Scandal of the Evangelical Gospel
If evangelicalism is to regain its credibility, it must expand its gospel beyond individual salvation. The gospel of the Kingdom is far more compelling, transformative, and biblical than the shrunk-down gospel of “pray this prayer and get to heaven.”
RETHINK: 12 Missiological Principles for Church Multiplication
To plant disciple-making, missional churches, we must change the way we think about God’s mission and the nature of the church. Rethink explores 12 missiological principles to help you rethink church multiplication.
The Need to Unlearn and Relearn
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and re-learn. ~ Alvin Tofler
Covid19 Implications for the Church
In this episode, Dhati Lewis and Brad Brisco, the director of bivocational church planting for the North American Mission Board, discuss four things every pastor and church planter should be thinking about today, before COVID-19 subsides.
Begin With Missionary Activity
In the North American, post-Christian context in which we now live, we can’t plant churches by simply starting a Sunday morning worship gathering. There may have been a day when we could build a cool website, rent a meeting space, send out flyers, put up banners and “launch” a church by starting a Sunday service. But those days are gone, at least in many North American contexts.