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Talking about church isn’t easy. In the USA, we have a culture that has a picture of what church is and opinions about what it should be. Our conversations about church already have a cultural context. The accuracy of that context is really not the point…the context is a reality we have to acknowledge...
Adjectives can be helpful. I admit it, I like knowing the culture of a gathering of believers, especially if it is my first time to be with that gathering. Words like ‘Baptist’ and ‘Simple’ help me understand the culture of the people in the gathering and that is nice. But when we set out...
Definitions are important for communication. While many will be based on Scripture, definitions of things like groups, church, disciple-making movements and church planting movements vary. When you use these terms you need to define them to facilitate better conversation. When you hear others use these terms, you need to ask them for their definition...
Our focus on reaching individuals with the Gospel may be hurting our efforts to establish communities of Believers. What if we focused on discipling communities – families or affinity groups – rather than spending all our time working with individuals and trying to get them ‘plugged into’ communities that are foreign to them? Maybe...
The reactions of other followers of Christ as we do the things required to make disciples is often surprising. Our focus is on those who do not know Jesus. Consequently, we spend as much time as we can hanging out with them. We may go places Christians shun. We hang out with people Christians...
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