If a church starts with over 5000 people, is it a church plant? I’m sure this is dabbling in semantics and wordplay, but I do see a difference between planting a church with a core team of about ten or twenty people and starting a church that runs an attendance of 1000+ the first day. ...
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Adam Feldman has been blogging through his series “Missional Made Practical.” I wanted to plug it. Here’s his introductory post. Have fun. No really, it’s worth it. And while you’re at it, read his Missional-Incarnational and Evangelistic Attractional Church ministry posts, which I also like a lot.
Last year I made...
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So this guy from Louisville is starting a church in Uptown (New Orleans), and he and his posse came into town this week to check the place out. I spent Wednesday night chillin’ with all of them and Amy (from here). It was cool meeting him and the posse, but that’s not what...
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Why do you go? The easiest and hardest question asked.
We were allowed to go. That’s why we went. It’s that simple, and it’s just as complex. I could tell you all the reasons we went- the lack of a substantial Christian witness in Village S, among the Buryats, and throughout Siberia....
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When the Soviets took control of Russia, millions of people were relocated. Asian Siberians moved west, European Russians moved east. Distinctive people groups were assimiliated into large groups of multi-ethnic families. The Soviets did this to eliminate ethic unity and to broaden the Soviet identity throughout the Union. Many of the...
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