Right now, over at MissioScapes, you can read an article from Marty Duren that is the beginning of a series entitled, “If we were the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force.” It’s Marty being Marty on the SBC and I know some of you have missed that stuff. My article will be there in a few [...]

So a few weeks ago, as I was at my in-law’s house about to head with them to a family reunion vacation for the week, I got a call from Alan Cross. He started with the line, “I’m trying to get the band back together.” Flattered that he thought me essential, but wary of being [...]

You know that I think we need to transition American church culture into a something far more effective in engaging the world around us. The problem most often faced in the attempt to accomplish this goal is an adherence to individual preferences by those not wishing to change. The attitude of those desiring to be [...]

There are three neighborhoods that I believe are the responsibility of every believer:  The one in which you live, the one in which you work (wherever you do what you do, be that a spread out “neighborhood” like clients of a landscaper or salesperson, or a close “neighborhood” like a cubical based office design, or [...]

The chair of our Missions Team sent me an email last night asking what we would have to do to get the individuals of our church starting their own engagement opportunities rather than the team creating centralized opportunities that most will not engage. This was my answer: The missional mindset within the individual will never [...]

From Acts 17. 1. Paul was sensitive to the spiritual surroundings (vv. 10-17). He did not go there of his own intention, but was directed there by circumstance at the direction of Providence. He could have viewed the situation from a self centered worldview that would have led him to consider himself stranded and in [...]

My friend, Joe Ball, is the Youth Strategist for the Kentucky Baptist Convention and he attended the SBC this week. He has a few thoughts about the convention that I considered to be more relevant than most of the stuff on the blogs this week about the Great Commission Resurgence, various and ridiculous motions, resolutions [...]

If it is the responsibility of the church to participate in the Mission of God, and it is the responsibility of the church to do just that, then we need to act redemptively toward the people around us. Keeping in mind that every Christian is the church, the body of Christ, then before we can [...]

Reframing Success: Redefining Success in Evangelism Are we interested in sharing Christ for the sake of the other person or for ourselves? Great question. As reggie McNeal says, if we want to change the way we do church, we have to change the way we measure success.