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The nation’s largest church-based student movement was started 44 years ago by a small Baptist church in Iowa.
About 13 years in, 30 to 50 students from nearby Iowa State University met regularly as the Baptist Student Union. Ten years later, close to 200 students attended regularly, and Grand Avenue Baptist Church realized its campus ministry had grown so large “it became the tail wagging the dog” and threatened to overwhelm the congregation.
In response, the congregation planted a new church..
In 2005, almost by accident, The Summit Church moved to a multi-site strategy. We made the move because our worship services were full, and we had already multiplied the number of services to the breaking point. It’s the sort of “problem” any church would love to have! We learned on the fly, and over the past decade, we’ve been adjusting how we approach the multi-site model. As I’ve said before (and we’ve written extensively), we believe the multi-site model can be evangelistically effective, pa..
Court frees grief counselors charged under former Hindu kingdom's new constitution.
A court in Nepal has dropped a case against eight Christians, the first religious freedom dispute since the country's new constitution was implemented last year.
The seven men and one woman had been charged with proselytizing after giving out a pamphlet about Jesus in a Christian school while helping children through the trauma following the 2015 earthquake. Anything perceived as evangelism is outlawe..
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326
Meditation:
Now when they heard this they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?” And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God ca..
John Eliot (1604–1690) was known in his own day as “the apostle to the Indians.” Eliot labored in New England as a minister to the colonial population, but he was simultaneously engaged in equipping Native Christians for evangelistic outreach to other Indians. At age 67, he published a small book, with a long title, Indian Dialogues, for Their Instruction in that great Service of Christ, in calling home their Country-men to the Knowledge of God, and of Themselves, and of Jesus Christ.
The book..
When Jesus went to the cross he went to hang in the place ofand instead ofelect sinners. He did not die for the human race-in-general. He had definitemen and women, and boys and girls he was substituting himselffor. When Jesus went to the cross he died for those he had been praying for in his “High Priestly” prayer (John 17).
John 17 contains the wonderful prayer of our Lord Jesus Christ in which he bears his soul to the Father shortly before his death on the cross for elect sinners-soon-to-be-..
Many Christians are realizing in their older years, not that they wasted their youth, but that God was preparing them for their later years. “The Lord didn’t design us to coast out on flowery beds of ease, but to make some sort of difference,” said Nelson Malwitz, founder of Finishers Project, “There is a full spectrum of mission opportunities, both at home and abroad, both short-term and long-term.”
As the Baby Boomers continue to pass into retirement age more mission agencies and churches hav..
I am sorry that I did not rest in a routine of personal devotions early on.Settled into a place at a time and seeking the face of God sounds natural, like morning ablutions, but it is a living holy world you are entering and so there is bound to be dark spiritual resistance. It is the Holy One, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, whose face you are seeking. What a struggle for some of us, to impose upon the flesh a spirit of contrition, penitence and hunger for the divine, yet how essential to g..
Mainline churches in Canada are dying. Since 1960 – Lutherans, Anglicans, Presbyterians, and the United Church have lost half their members. The United Church closes one church a week, on average.
But a few mainline congregations are thriving and growing. Why is that?
That was the question three Canadian academics—David Millard Haskell and Stephanie Burgoyne of Wilfrid Lau..