I mentioned Friday that I was traveling to Jackson, TN for this conference and as you read this, I am on the road.
I mentioned that I would be blogging and twittering from there during the conference.  given that, you might want to check out my twitter feed: twitter.com/artrogers, or the missioscapes twitter feed: twitter.com/missioscapes, or [...]

“The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies. And he who will not suffer this does not want to be of the Kingdom of Christ; he wants to be among friends, to sit among roses and lilies, not with the bad people but the devout people. O you blasphemers and betrayers of [...]

If you had told me 3 years ago that I would be sitting, at Ronnie Floyd’s invitation, in his church listening to him, Johnny Hunt and Al Mohler talk about the SBC as being in decline and the need for us to deconstruct that which is complex and bulky to get to what is efficient [...]

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 [...]

Interesting what this evangelical pastor has to say about the church’s involvement in the political process.  All three videos = just over 20 mins…

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 come from [...]

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 [...]

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.

Every so often I will link to an article from “Stepchild,” a former IMB overseas missionary who’s blog is titled “Missions Misunderstood.”  He will frequently expound some of the best stuff around that deserves your attention.
It’s that time again.
Everyone A Missionary?
At Skelly, we call us “Servant Messengers” instead of “Missionaries” because one is descriptive and [...]