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Behind Send Network's Training
The greatest church planter that ever lived wrote “I laid a foundation like a wise and master builder…”....
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Cultural Intelligence (CQ) and Church Planting
Many new churches, especially those in urban areas are intentionally multi-ethnic. It is simply the nature...
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Parents Behind Bars -- Child Trends Publication
Children do not often figure in discussions of incarceration, but new research finds more than five million...
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Exegete Your Community to Inform Transformational Strategies
When we use the word “missional,” we are affirming that the Church by its very nature is sent into our...
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Racial Divides in Spiritual Practices
Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America...
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Future Shock - 12 Attitude Shifts Necessary for Thriving in What’s Next
In 1970, futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler wrote a book titled “Future Shock.” They defined future shock...
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Navigate Change & Complexity
A Hybrid Approach to Navigating Change & Complexity Change is ever-present. Church leaders in the...
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Rethinking the Missionary Nature of the Church
If mission defines who Christ is, and if Christ sends us as He was sent, then mission defines who we...
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Rethinking Mission: Incarnational Presence
The missionary nature of God is reflected in the “sentness” of the church.  God is a missionary God who sends a...
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Defining a Missiological Method
A Shift in Methodology The United States of America has been recognized as a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant...
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Reaching and Revitalizing Rural America: Overcoming the Misconception of Cultural Homogeneity
To paint any people with a broad brush is not to see them for who they truly are. I recently wrote...
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Reaching & Revitalizing Rural America: Overcoming the Misconceptions of Idyllic Life & Gospel Saturation
In reality, rural America is in a perilous position — perhaps in greater danger of decay and decline...
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