Over a decade ago, I visited an exciting church in the inner city of Chicago. While most Sunday sermons in that neighborhood echoed through half-empty auditoriums, the sermons of this church's pastor reached overflow crowds Sunday after Sunday. Obviously, it was an unusual church. People weren't just dropping their money in the plate and then putting their feet up while the pastor did all the work. ...

Topics:	Congregational care, Development, Discipleship, Healing, Leadership, Pastoral care, Shepherding, Spiritual care, Spiritual direction, Spiritual formation
Filters:	Church staff, Counseling, Discipleship, Elder, Pastor, Pastoral care, Shepherd, Spiritual director
Purpose:	Discipleship
References:	Exodus 19:6, 1 Peter 2:5-9
Date Added:	July 12, 2007

"Whole Christian mission is built on the whole Christian Bible," says Christopher J. H. Wright in The Mission of God (IVP Academic). For Wright, the call to reach the nations does not begin and end with the Great Commission of Matthew 28. This perspective, advanced relentlessly in this substantial, thoroughly documented work of scholarship, provides a healthy antidote to the recent propensity of some ...

Topics:	Community impact, Missional, Missionary, Missions, Outreach, Short-term missions
Filters:	Christian education, Missionary, Missions, Pastor
Purpose:	Evangelism
References:	Exodus 19:5-6, Matthew 28:19
Date Added:	September 06, 2007