Until this week, I had never heard of 100 Huntley Street or The Drew Marshall Show. Huntley Street is a daily Christian television show in Canada that describes itself as “a vibrant and authentic, interactive, interview/talk/music program, bringing the Christian message to the viewer by exposing them to real people with real stories.” Drew Marshall [...]
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Posted 16 April 2008
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Authenticity § Culture § Daily Scribe § The Church § Transparency
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Tagged: 100 Huntley Street, Christian radio, Christian television, cultural christianity, Drew Marshall, God Channel, holy hand grenades, I hate Christianity, Jesus TV, Reynold and Kathy Mainse, selling Jesus, spiritually incompetent, sterile Christianity, talk radio, The Drew Marshall Show
[See previous article, "Short-term missions in a post-modern culture" in this series on missions.]
Apart from short-term mission teams (STMT) parachuting into a foreign mission field for seven to ten days, what are the alternatives for Christians who want to explore other cultures and employ their gifts in service to our King? Shouldn’t we demystify “missionary [...]
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Posted 10 April 2008
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Christian life § Daily Scribe § Evangelism § Great Commission § Missions § United Kingdom § Wales
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Tagged: America, cross-cultural missions, foreign missions, Great Commission, making disciples, missionary service, reaching the marginalized, short term missions, short-term mission team, United Kingdom, Wales, why go overseas
Want to be a superhero? Have you thought about becoming a church planter? To read some of the literature out there, the average person can forget about applying for the job. You need the combined skills of a brain surgeon, rocket scientist, Wall Street financier, marketing expert, computer programmer, life coach, and motivational speaker. What [...]
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Posted 04 September 2007
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Church Planting § Missions § Multiplication § Southern Baptists § The Church
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Tagged: church planter, church planter assessment, Church Planting, church planting strategy, demographics, denominational strategies, denominations, Ecuador, foreign missionaries, fundraising, Guy Muse, International Mission Board, international missionaries, North America, rocket science, SBC, super hero, target group
Within a short time of publishing my latest post, I discovered that an article on "house churches" had appeared in Monday's Los Angeles Times. I have uploaded a PDF file for those who may be unable or unwilling to register online (free) in order to read the article.
HT: House Church Blog
Read anything written by Reggie McNeal? He is the author of The Present Future: Six Tough Questions for the Church. I have not read the book yet but after hearing and reading several prominent missional leaders quote this guy, I went to Amazon and found the following quotation from chapter one:
A growing number of people [...]
I don’t know much about Baptist Blogger, Ben Cole, but he’s really “spot on” (as they say here in Britain) regarding the hypocrisy of those who shout the loudest about the inerrancy and authority of Scripture, yet use the Bible as a springboard or proof-text for their own moralistic and legalistic rants. In part six [...]
