Tag: church planting
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2020 Year In Review
2020 was quite the year. I learned so much about what it really means to pastor a local church, and I am humbled by all the connections I have had the privilege of making. I have come to love the bride of Christ more deeply than I can describe, and I have come to understand…
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Pray for Nayakampalli, India
A new pastor has passed our evaluation process and I want to ask you to spend some time praying for his family’s ministry in India. India is one of the most densely populated countries with a very high number of unreached people groups. Our new supported pastor is reaching out to unreached people. Here is…
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Given the chance, how would you impact this dying world?
… the sad reality is that most people who desire to impact the world simply spend most of their time arguing, and most of the time without any effectiveness or weight. So many people want to leave their mark on the world so badly that they don’t care whether or not that mark is a…
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Ministry Update, making disciples… and releasing them
I remember sitting with a couple friends, Andrew (a different Andrew) and Cody, dreaming about what kind of ministry we could have while in college. Of course, I was prideful- bent on building a kingdom for myself on Christ’s name. No dream that we voiced there would ever come to pass. God would not provide…
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Church Planting: Creation, The Great Commission, and The Resolution
As we saw when we considered God’s eternal mission, God’s purpose is His own glory in His creation through the exaltation of Christ and in the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. We will always have the mandate to multiply in creation and steward creation according to the first and second chapters in Genesis. God…
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Church Planting: a temporal picture of God’s eternal mission, pt. 3
Read Acts 13:2-52 The local congregation was dedicated to fasting and ministering to the Lord. This was a regular part of their worship. The Holy Spirit directed, not only the elders but the whole of the congregation, to set apart Barnabas and Saul do the work they were called to (planting churches just as the…
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Church Planting: a temporal picture of God’s eternal mission, pt. 2
Read Acts 13:1 Barnabas and Saul did not spend all of their time at the church in Antioch, what had now become their home church. They were called specifically to missions work and were doing that work under the commission of the church in Antioch. When they returned from a trip on which they were…
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Hello 2019
2018 (and 2017) were brutal years for us personally, but great years for ministry. Those of you who follow our ministry know some of our struggles. We are confident that God is working all things together, that He is doing so for His own glory, and that all He works together for His glory works…