Missional

How to help people realise they are in a burning building

December 9, 2011

I hope you will enjoy this challenging article as much as I did: “I have learned something in recent years. People come to cherish words like atonement and justification when you expose them to other words like bloodguilt and reckoning. I’ve tried to teach gospel-centric words effectively as stand-alone concepts. It has produced a few [...]

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Roland Allen: predecessor of modern Missional and Apostolic ideals

November 23, 2011

It is almost 100 years since Roland Allen published his at the time intensely controversial book, Missionary Methods, ours or St Pauls? It is a book that has been strikingly influential with today both those from the “missional” wing of the church and is still cited and read both by those who advocate a return [...]

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Guest Post by Andrew Brims – Paul: Reformed, Charismatic, Missional and… Self Funding

August 20, 2011

Adrian’s blog has done a great job of both tracking and encouraging the growth in the number of Christians, churches and ministries that are willing and eager to own the two labels of charismatic and reformed. The apostle Paul was someone we could describe as being both reformed and charismatic. He wrote Romans 9, and [...]

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How to spend less on evangelism but be more successful

June 27, 2011

My friend Brian Mowrey writes: “In my last post, I mentioned we (Jubilee Church St Louis) have spent more money on evangelism in the past, yet were less effective at reaching the lost and adding them into our community than we are now. The main reason why that’s true is because we focused most of our [...]

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Where Bob Roberts’ life message and mine intersect

March 1, 2011

In a sermon from the series The Christian’s Duty in a Hostile World, John MacArthur connects two glorious truths: the centrality of Jesus’ resurrection and that “faith cannot be removed or detached from the realm of real life.” It is no great surprise to me that I enjoyed Bob’s book so much, or that he [...]

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A new Warnie award for Bob Roberts

February 6, 2011

I am sometimes just a little embarrassed these days about the so-called “Warnie Awards.” They are something of a reminder of the good old days of Christian blogging, when almost all of us knew each other, especially the ones that were not political bloggers. Sometimes back then the online blogging community felt more connected. There [...]

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Terry Virgo on avoiding drift away from the Bible

December 2, 2010

I am continuing to enjoy the installments of Terry’s video series. This segment talks about the various ways in which we can find ourselves drifting away from absolute Biblical truth. I do encourage you to watch all these videos. Here are some extracts from today’s video: “In an endeavor to be relevant . . . [...]

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Urban Mission and Reconciliation – Jubilee Community Church, Cape Town | The Lausanne Global Conversation

October 6, 2010

Lex, who has been my friend for twenty years recently wrote the following article for the Lausanne website about Jubilee Church Capet Town. I can also let you know today that on 31st October this year I will be preaching in their evening service. Pray for me as it will be my first trip to [...]

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TOAM10 – David Stroud on how are we doing in caring for the poor?

July 7, 2010

Simon Pettit once preached a movement transforming sermon here at this conference on remembering the poor. Dave asked the question, how have we done since? 1 in 4 families struggle go get food on their table in the USA. In the UK inner cities half of the children live near the poverty line. Dave took [...]

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TOAM10 – Scott Marques on the forceful advance of the Kingdom of God

July 6, 2010

As we gathered to worship, here at the Newfrontiers Together On A Mission conference, once again God blessed us with a sweet sense of His presence. Drawing away from the challenges of daily life and to a crowd of thousands of people, it is amazing how God intimately connects with us as individuals. A prophetic [...]

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SERMON: Ed Stetzer on Engaging the Culture (Acts 17)

June 9, 2010

The following sermon is by Ed Stetzer preaching at Jubilee Church. The video follows my brief notes. Engaging the culture: What does it mean for us to be on mission ? In Acts 17 Paul finds a space within the culture to proclaim the gospel. He uses this as a bridge to share Jesus. We [...]

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Ed Stetzer Interviews Terry Virgo of Newfrontiers

May 24, 2010

Terry Virgo founded Newfrontiers back in the mid 1970s. He was church planting before it was cool. He formed a missional network before the phrase was coined. There are now over 700 Newfrontiers churches spread out on every continent. Most of these began as house churches. But many of them have grown to become warehouse [...]

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Ed Stetzer on tour in London

May 23, 2010

Ed lays out well the missional challenge that London represents. Could God be calling YOU to come over and help us? The world lives in this great city of mine. If you want to reach people from all over the world with the gospel of Jesus you can come here to to do it! Watch [...]

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St. Joseph, Jeff Gates, and Micah Fries

February 5, 2010

I have had a great time here in St. Joseph, Missouri. I traveled down with two men who I now call dear friends, Jeff Gates, the pastor at Living Hope Church, St. Joseph and Ben Roed, who with his lovely wife Peggy, are serving in Living Hope and are being well trained by Jeff. It [...]

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