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As I currently journey through different cultures in various Africa countries, it makes me fully aware of how much we over-think things in our western world. It is always good to be reminded that the Gospel, and its spread to others, must be just as clear and relevant to an illiterate, rural village person as it…

We love the stories of God speaking in dramatic ways leading to amazing things. I think of Loren Cunningham, years ago, seeing a vision of a map of the world with waves breaking over it. He sensed that the waves were young people covering the earth with the Gospel. This vision inspired him to launch…

Church expressions must change to reflect God and his kingdom well both in the west and around the world. Indeed, we are seeing innovations but change is still slow and not, necessarily, keeping pace with where they could be. Every day I see new formulas for how to live as missional communities, or missional families, or organic…

Are we first and foremost called to mission or, rather, to create community out of which mission comes? Most would agree that it is not either/or. But I have seen (and written) much about the primacy of one verses the other. For example, I have written about the nature of the church as ‘going.’ And many…

So here’s the problem… Either we press into an ever-deepening, hearing-from-God relationship, or we settle for someone else’s voice as the primary authority of our lives. It is a simple choice. I have been enjoying a fresh read of Dallas Willard’s Hearing God in which he addresses this issue as squarely as I have heard…

I’ll confess that when I first heard about the idea of house churches, I thought, That’s not real church. I thought the only reason a congregation would meet in a house instead of a larger traditional or contemporary church would be because they couldn’t afford a building or they didn’t have the vision or ability…

On living radically for/with Jesus: ‏@bradjoegray The #Christian life isn't a mountain climb, it's a cave dive—a plunge into all the unimagined and undiscovered fullness of Christ. Living in Faith and Grace in a Polarizing, Angry World, Ann Voskamp: “Turns out what we want most is someone to just sell us some certainty about who…

It’s easier to go to church or join a church then… just keep loving people. It’s easier to prepare a sermon or listen to one then… just keep loving people. It’s easier to share an opinion or bash the opinion of another then… just keep loving people I am preaching to myself… It’s the simple…

  1. Passion. Nothing matters like passion from start to finish. When God found me, changed me, and filled me with Himself, I had no greater desire than that others experience the same. The reality that there were whole people groups who never would have this opportunity unless the Gospel was taken to them caused…

Apparently I missed Roland Allen Day (June 8) in which he is celebrated on a liturgical calendar. But this is no surprise as 1. I was traveling, and 2. I don’t follow that calendar. But let me celebrate Roland belatedly! As this article says so well, “Allen was one of the leading missional thinkers of…