Don’t Leave Home without It: Church Planting Team Covenant and MOU
The development of a team covenant and memorandum of understanding (MOU) is one of the most important parts of field preparation. This is also one of the most overlooked components of training. Teams...
View ArticleOur Process for Sending Church Planting Teams
I recently posted a photo on my Instagram account noting I was in the process of revising our church’s approach to assessing and equipping U.S. church planting teams. Several of you wrote and asked for...
View ArticleAn Opportunity for Your Mission Agency?
I frequently receive requests to help others process through an apostolic approach to church planting among unreached people groups in North America. Today, I want to take the initiative and extend an...
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David Sills on Global Pastoral Training
The Church is growing the fastest throughout the Majority World. And with any growth comes the need for leadership development. This need is not a contemporary creation but a biblical expectation....
View ArticleThe Mission Table: A Video Resource 4 U
Are you familiar with The Mission Table? If not, then I want to point you to this excellent resource. These brothers and sisters host a Great Commission webcast–now in season 3–and webinars. I had the...
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Multiplying Churches in Japanese Soil
Japan is a very influential country and home to one of the world’s largest unreached people groups. John Mehn is my guest in this episode of Strike the Match. His new book, Multiplying Churches in...
View ArticleVideos from Reaching the Nations in North America Summit
If you were unable to attend the Reaching the Nations in North America Summit, then I want to share this post with you. The Divine Maestro orchestrates the movement of the nations (Acts 17:26-27). Will...
View ArticlePastor: Holder of the Key or Lock to Missions?
The role of the pastor is critical in a church’s local and global apostolic work. At the turn of the 20th century, John R. Mott was correct when he wrote: The secret of enabling the home Church to...
View ArticleDeveloping and Leading Apostolic Church Planting Teams
I had the honor of spending yesterday with the wonderful brothers and sisters of the Houston Church Planting Network. If you are in the Houston area, you need to link arms with them. Chad Clarkson...
View ArticleTime to Stop Talking about Missions and Church Planting?
The farther we move away from biblical language to describe our actions, the greater the likelihood our actions will move away from biblical purposes. The farther we move away from biblical models to...
View ArticleFree Webinar: Developing an Apostolic Imagination
Lord willing, May 16, I will be doing a webinar with Matthew Ellison and the good folks of Sixteen:Fifteen on developing an apostolic imagination. We are hoping this event will be a blessing to you and...
View ArticleInternational Day for the Unreached
Sunday, May 20 is recognized as the International Day for the Unreached. There will be a live 90 minute broadcast related to the day at 8:00PM Eastern Standard Time. You can find out about the speakers...
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Matthew Ellison on When Everything is Missions
In this episode of Strike the Match, my guest is Matthew Ellison, president of 16:15 and co-author (with Denny Spitters) of When Everything is Missions. When I read this book, my initial reaction was...
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Matthew Soerens on Refugees and Immigration Today
The 20th century was called the Age of the Refugee due to the numbers of forcibly displaced people. Presently, 69 million individuals have been forcibly displaced from their homes. Twenty-five million...
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Scott James, MD on Public Health and Going to Isolated People Groups
Does the Church threaten the health of isolated people groups when she goes into all the world? Last week, the public became aware of the death of U.S. missionary, John Allen Chau on the North Sentinel...
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Death of Missionary John Chau: The Other Side of the Story
For the past week, international news has covered the death of U.S., missionary John Allen Chau. Sometime between November 16 and November 18, Chau was killed by the North Sentinelese on the isolated...
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The One Who Pays the Piper Picks the Tune
I recently spent some time with a friend who has been involved in church planting activities. His denomination financially supported his ministry. However, he recently declined such financial support...
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Steve Leston and To Every Tribe
Dr. Steve Leston is my guest in this episode of Strike the Match. Steve is the president and CEO of To Every Tribe. We discuss the importance of multiplying leaders and training church planters. Steve...
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Apostolic Imagination: Re-Thinking Contemporary Missions
Great advancements in evangelical mission activity have taken place over the past sixty years. Moving from the mission-station model, we entered into a new paradigm–a paradigm in which we presently...
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Byron Spradlin, Artistry and Kingdom Advancement
The Church often overlooks the role of artistic expression in Kingdom advancement while limiting such expressions to worship music. However, artists are a powerhouse of Great Commission potential. In...
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