Seven Principles for Church Planting According to the New Testament Pattern

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I spent some quality time with one of the best church planters in a particular city. In just a few years, he has planted almost 10 campuses or extensions of the original church he started about 10 years ago. He was also involved in a prayer meeting with other church planters for several years. When I asked him if this weekly prayer meeting was still functional, he told me that it no longer exists because most of these planters are no longer ministering in the city and that many of the churches are either closed or are led by another pastor. He said that he has almost no pastor friends left in the area.

17 Contrasts Between Kingdom Age and Religious Systems

Jesus and the apostles did not inaugurate another religious system, but the age of the Kingdom of God; As we examine the gospels and the book of Acts, the main theme of the preaching was the Kingdom of God- not the church and not a religion.

9 ERRORS OF THE GOSPEL OF SELF FULFILLMENT

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Seven Effective Ways to Reach Muslims

In light of the current climate of the nation, I see this as a great opportunity to reach Muslims who have been disaffected by their fellow Muslims and are experiencing intense backlash. This may now be the greatest evangelical opportunity in a thousand years to reach Muslims for Jesus.

7 Powerful Traits of The Joshua Generation

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Thirty+ Years, Thirty+ Leadership Lessons

Originally published in July 2011

Over thirty years ago my wife Joyce and I traveled to the Soviet Union for six weeks on a three-city missionary tour. This began a three month process culminating in our official launch into full-time church ministry in November 1980.

It’s Time to Rewrite the Race, Religion and Gay Narrative

A narrative has been written by the powers that be, in the media and popular culture, which has successfully divided humanity into segments related to ethnicity, religious beliefs and sexual preference. Consequently, neighbors of diverse backgrounds interact and view each “other” with a particular categorical lens replete with disdain because it assigns baggage and demonizes absolute strangers, making them the objects of our scorn and derision.

10 Reasons for Pollution in The Pulpit Today

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Last Days Views That Lead To Semi-Gnosticism

Throughout its history Christianity has had various eschatological views (beliefs on last things) that led it to non-engagement with surrounding cultures in favor of escapism similar in essence to Gnosticism and Platonism (from the Greek philosopher Plato). In these views the natural world is considered unimportant or evil, resulting in focusing only on the spiritual ideal and the next life.

How the Nationalization of the Family, Poverty and Politics Go Together

Since World War II, the Great Society programs of the 1960’s and more, the federal government of the United States has been getting larger at the expense of individual liberty and freedom. The liberals in the federal government offer more and more freebies in exchange for votes. Hence, the more dependent America becomes upon big government, the less likely it becomes that America would ever vote against it.

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