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Make Disciples

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more from David Platt

FB_David Platt from Ronnie Floyd on Vimeo. I am about halfway through the book. Desiring God on twitter wanted 140 character reviews. here was mine: @desiringgod i’m about 1/2way thru @plattdavid ‘s Radical. thought provoking. good concrete examples. necessary medicine. … Continue reading

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Verge 2010

I wasn’t able to go to Verge 2010 last week, but I watched quite a bit of the streaming video. It was some amazing stuff. Many of the thoughts and beliefs with which I have been struggling for the last … Continue reading

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The only real question for believers

Matt Carter finished up the Blueprint series at Austin Stone Community Church yesterday. Please download all 5 of these messages and give them a listen. At the beginning of yesterday’s message, Matt asked the only question really worth asking for … Continue reading

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more on church planting

Courtesy of Vitamin Z, here are two more takes on church planting. First we have Fred Barnes’ account of being a part of a church plant from the beginning after 25 years in the “mother” church that birthed the new … Continue reading

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Why plant churches

Why should we plant more churches? aren’t there enough of them already? Don’t existing churches have room for at least a few more folks? why plant new ones when there are so many of every flavor already around? Mike McDaniel … Continue reading

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thought for the day

from David Bosch, Believing the Future via Todd Hiestand. “Mission is more than and different from recruiting to our brand of religion; it is alerting people to the universal reign of God.” David Bosch in Believing the Future

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Is the Church for Evangelism?

this is the question posed by the Ramblin’ Pastor Man and by Tony Payne. It is a more difficult question than it appears on the surface. Tony makes some good points and here is one of them: However, even if … Continue reading

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A fish story

here is a fish story from a book by Wayne McDill called Making friends for Christ: Wayne McDill – Making Friends For Christ p.8 Whatever Became of Evangelism? Now it came to pass that a group existed who called themselves … Continue reading

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