The following is a guest post from Dr. David Dunbar, President of Biblical Theological Seminary in Hatfield, PA. With these words St. Paul (1 Cor. 13:12) contrasts the limitations of our present spiritual vision and understanding with the fullness...
My friend Bob Roberts, author of Glocalization, is off to Doha, Qatar and the U.S. Islamic World Forum. Here’s his initial thoughts: The main sessions are things like: How do we see each other and what are our different narratives? The...
Thoughts on an article by David Fitch entitled, The Idol Hath Fallen - the Financial Crisis and the Reshaping of the Landscape for Mission,
UPDATE: I have used this scorecard, along with other thoughts from scripture, to write an ebook on success in ministry. The ebook is available for the kindle only. Reframing Success: Missional Metrics for Ministry Success At my last doctoral class...
Over the next few weeks we are looking at Lamin Sanneh’s book, Whose Religion in Christianity? The Gospel Beyond the West. Chapter One – The Wind Blows Where it Will Part One Chapter one is divided into multiple sections, with sections...
This week I am in Barcelona Spain. This is a beautiful city and the culture is quite inviting. It reminds me in many ways of New Orleans. I felt home. Now if I could just speak the language. I’m here interacting with missionaries from Western...
Which religious groups were instrumental in reaching the frontier lands of the early United States? And how did they do it?
What the?‚ You read right folks.‚ The good folks at Lifeway are working to train people in “The Missional Sunday School.”‚ Ed Stetzer (why is his name coming up so much today?‚ Maybe it’s the calf fries.) and Bruce Raley...
In the pages of To Love and To Cherish From This Day Forward, Dr. Randy Millwood sets out to paint a different picture, a new picture of the Church: a portrait of a Church which is not a building, a business, an institution, a school, or an...
I want to do a few posts, now that I am getting back to some degree of health, about what I learned by spending a week in Spain as it applies to ministry in the US. Western Europe is post-Christian, maybe better stated post-christendom. People do...