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March 3, 2019
184-How to Raise Your Support
Myles Wilson talks about raising a support team for your ministry.
Visit Myles’s website for more. Thanks to our partners at Accelerate for making the interview available.
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February 27, 2019
UPDATED: From Buckingham to Athens, the Gospel Does the Work
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A team goes out in Buckingham (the place, not the palace) and offers prayer to 129 people over two days.
53% say yes to prayer
34% say yes to hearing the gospel
13% want to know more
2% turn and believe on the spot
This is postmodern, postChristian, secular England. Maybe everyone is unsettled by Brexit. Or maybe the reason we don’t see movements in the west is we’re not in the community sharing the gospel and making disciples.
UPDATE: This just came in from Will Burnham working among immigrants in Athens.
Stop delaying. Get some training.
February 25, 2019
40 Years Since the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
Psalm 46:6
Forty years since Iran’s Islamic revolution, who would have thought the children of that revolution would be turning to Christ in unprecedented numbers under the watchful eye of an oppressive regime.
Iran is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a Christian. Yet never before has there been so many new disciples and churches started. Let’s remember who holds the nations in the palm of his hand.
February 24, 2019
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February 20, 2019
183-Pioneering Movements in Japan
David Chervenka (center)
What’s it like to pioneer movements in a new country? David Cervenka tells the story of pioneering movements in Japan.
David referred to 3-Touch Training for Churches.
There's more to this than meets the eye
We want the church to remember that there is something worse than death and something better than human flourishing. If we hope only for renewed cities and restored bodies in this life, we are of all people most to be pitied.
February 18, 2019
The US Needs 8,000 New Churches Every Year Just to Keep Up
I think church planting is just about as hard as it has ever been in the history of the U.S.
For years the closure rate of churches [in the US] was about 3,700 a year, and they’re anticipating that that number will move to about 5,500. All the while, there’s going to be probably another 100 million people that will come to the U.S. in the next seven years, either through birth or immigration. So the need continues to grow and grow and grow.
We need to be planting about 8,100 churches per year just to keep up with the population and the closure rates.
Of the new churches that Stadia serves, 42 percent of the attendance of those churches is made up of first time believers.
Justin Moxley
Stadia Church Planting
February 14, 2019
When the Holy Spirit comes
The Holy Spirit comes on Jesus when he is in the passive state of submitting himself to God’s will in baptism and while he is praying.
The effects of the Spirit in the life of Jesus are evident in what follows: the power to resist the wiles of Satan, the power to recall and apply Scripture, the power to see God’s plan and purposes and to proclaim the Word boldly, the power to withstand hostility, and the power to minister to and heal the oppressed. The Spirit in the lives of believers can do the same things.
February 13, 2019
The "Chrislam" debate
This week a heated “Chrislam’’ battle is unfolding in the Catholic Church over Pope Francis’s joint document with Islamic leader Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of Egypt’s al-Azhar mosque, which says the “pluralism and the diversity of religions” are “willed by God in His wisdom”.
Did the God of the Bible, revealed in Jesus Christ, “will” Islam into being and raise up Mohammed as a or the prophet? In 2015 that was certainly the view of Westminster Abbey.
A lot depends on how you answer that question. Right now lives are being lost in attempts to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ among Muslims. Why should we bother if Islam is willed by God and Mohammed is one of his prophets?
When Mark Durie talks about Islam and Christianity, I listen. He’s a leading Christian authority on Islam, a former missionary to Indonesia, the pastor of a congregation of muslim background believers in Melbourne, Australia.
His insights are based upon a careful understanding of the key Islamic texts. This series is a must for anyone working among Muslims.
In this series, Dr Mark Durie approaches understanding the Qu'ran as a text with its own distinct theology.
In this series, Dr Mark Durie approaches understanding the Qu'ran as a text with its own distinct theology.
In this series, Dr Mark Durie approaches understanding the Qu'ran as a text with its own distinctive theology.
In this series, Dr Mark Durie approaches understanding the Qu'ran as a text with its own distinct theology.
In this, Dr Mark Durie approaches understanding the Qu'ran as a text with its own distinct theology.
February 11, 2019
When God Shows Up During an Interview
Don Waybright, Michelle Addison
Sometimes I am unraveled by my own interviews. I sit there amazed at the goodness of God. How he works through ordinary people to extraordinary things. I’m stunned.
I can’t stop thinking about my interview with Don Waybright. I was riveted by the story of Iesus (Jesus), eighteen years in maximum security, solitary confinement, freed by the gospel and learning to follow Jesus. The Mexican gang members turning and believing, risking retaliation for leaving their gang and being baptized. The women in Mumbai, freed from prostitution and walking with Christ.
If you listened to the podcast, but didn't watch the video, fast forward it to the last few minutes and watch Don as he baptizes Iesus who is shackled hand and foot.
Isn’t this what we signed up for?
This discipleship movement is spreading behind bars, it’s spreading among prostitutes in Mumbai, is spreading in some of the darkest places in Houston.
Don Waybright won’t mind me saying he’s just an ordinary guy. He’s been on this journey for almost twenty years. He has an extraordinary ability to take other people with him. His church is on board, they’ve trained 1,600 of their people in the basics of connecting, sharing and discipling. A few years ago Don brought a team from his church for a week of mission on the streets and in the neighborhoods of Mosside, Manchester in the north of England. Mosside is a tough neighborhood. Michelle and I were there. That’s Don and Michelle in the photo above.
Don is the missions pastor of a church of over four thousand. You wouldn’t expect the senior pastor, Mark Hartman, to have time for a week of mission in Mosside. He’d send Don and the team and cheer from back home. But Mark was there, out on the streets sharing the gospel, living what he teaches. Sugar Creek is a “both/and church”. They love being a church of thousands and they love multiplying disciples and churches anywhere they can.
I get tired of having “missional conversations”. It’s all too abstract for me. I want to hear stories of people set free by the gospel and the life of Christ in them. This a work of God. It’s the fruit of surrendering to his living Word, depending on his Holy Spirit and focusing on the core missionary task of making disciples.
That’s what I signed up for.
If this story has moved you, what will you do next? I’m if we asked Don he’d say,
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Don’t go alone
Interview with Don Waybright: NoPlaceLeft Behind Bars
