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Jude Lee: Prayerfully Preparing for a Short-Term Mission
by Dr. Jude Lee, author of House Calls with Jesus: Stories of Redemptive Love Dr. Lee reading from My Utmost for His Highest on November 1st: Know ye not that … ye are not your own? – 1 Corinthians 6:19 There is no such thing as a private life—‘a world within the…
David Alan Black: A Marathon Plan
by Dr. David Alan Black, professor, marathon runner, mountain climber and author of Seven Marks of a New Testament Church, Running My Race: Reflections on Life, Loss, Aging, and Forty Years of Teaching, The Jesus Paradigm, and more! Is your church up to doing a marathon? A marathon is 26.2 miles. It’s a slugfest. But…
Harvey R. Brown, Jr: One Wrong Turn Deserves Another
by Dr. Harvey R. Brown, Jr., preacher, educator, former U.S. Army chaplain, and author of Forgiveness: Finding Freedom from Your Past I consider myself a global citizen. Of course, I am an American. But thanks to your tax dollars and the United States Army, I became a world traveler and experienced a much more diverse culture…
Hospitality and Our Global Context
by Chris Freet The following is an excerpt from the book A New Look at Hospitality as a Key to Missions p. 3-4. —————————————————— A key issue concerning the American church and the role of hospitality involves the role of migration, immigration and refugees. Today, most nations face issues related to globalization. The…
Hospitality as a Hallmark of Christianity
by Chris Freet Is hospitality something that has, in a sense, been co-opted in the West? Perhaps a quick Google search could shed some light on this for us. The result of this search brings up websites pertaining to restaurant and hotel management topics and issues. It would indeed seem that hospitality in the West…
The Church of Every Place, pt. 2
by Darren M. McClellan And now, for a continuation on a previous post regarding a theology of mission. Specifically, I invite you to reconsider the stereotypical notion of the church as a “place.” I get it, you say. The church is not a building, the church is not a steeple…the church is the people. Hand…
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The Church of Every Place, pt. 1.
by Darren M. McClellan How does one begin to define the mission of the church? For those with an historic commitment to “one Lord, one faith, and one baptism,” we might think that most Christians would respond with some consistency (something along the lines of disciple-making); but alas, much of our experience as the church…