I am very excited to announce that our church has agreed to partner with the Missouri Baptist Convention to host the 121 Conference which will occur on August 28th & 29th. The conference is an effort to help understand how to take 1st century mission and theology and apply it in a 21st century context. We hope to tackle issues
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The guys over in Nashville at LifeWay Research keep cranking out statistical data that continues to prove helpful in our pursuit of more effective means of evangelism and growth. This time they are releasing a new study that they say shows "Unchurched Americans turned off by church, open to Christians." This study, which is released over at LifeWayResearch.com
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I ran across the following statistics the other day. I am curious to hear from you about what you think this means for pastors/preachers/teachers as we endeavor to communicate God's word to people?
Do you know that in the USA:
Over 50% of people over age 16 are functionally illiterate.
58% of the US adult population never reads a book after high school
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I am convinced that God loves those who work every day in the small church. There is no question that the Southern Baptist Convention is a convention of small churches. They form the backbone of what has made us great for so many years. As a result of my belief in, and my thankfulness for, the small church I have
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I am excited to share with you that as of this evening I have accepted an invitation to speak at the first annual Small Church Conference to be held at Lewisville Baptist Church in Lewisville, North Carolina in March of 2008. I am tentatively scheduled to speak on Friday night at 7pm on the topic of "Affordable Technology for the
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I have been preaching through a series entitled "ekklesia" as we have tried to understand just what, exactly, is the church. I am beginning a two week look at fellowship and this week I'm beginning by trying to teach the biblical foundations of accountability as a vital portion of the fellowship process. The sermon is entitled "PartnerPower". We are looking
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The guys over at LifeWay, and more specifically LifeWay Research, recorded a pocast this past Friday with Drs. Ranier, Wagonner and Stetzer , the former being the head of LifeWay Research. It was released this morning. The podcast lasts approximately 30 minutes but is worth your time to listen to it. LifeWay was gracious enough to reach out to
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According to this press release from LifeWay the IMB, NAMB and LifeWay are now all collaborating on research and the newly announced head of LifeWay Research and LifeWay missiologist in residence is Dr. Ed Stetzer. I could not be more pleased! I have wanted to see a more unified effort between our SBC entities for some time now. The
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