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In Love with the Mission or the Model?
“If there is a better way of doing discipleship, we will do it that way.” In my years as a Christian leader, I have heard this phrase, whether it was my senior pastor, during church training, or during a conversation with fellow pastors in our movement. For every mission God gives us, we have to…
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Some Unsettling Questions Church Leaders Should Ask
I am going through a required reading from my school on Andy Stanley’s Deep and Wide. In one of the chapters of his book, he listed some questions every church leader should answer. It did make me think of how I lead the church. So here are the questions: (are you ready?) Are we moving…
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Burger King Christianity
At Burger King, have it your way! That’s why I love Burger King – I can have it my way. I want fries and a burger without the drink, or I like the onion ring and the chicken nuggets – I can have it my way. My men’s group meets at Burger King every Wednesday…
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Mark 9:33-37 How to Be Great
Mark 9:33-37 33 And they came to Capernaum. And when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you discussing on the way?” 34 But they kept silent, for on the way they had argued with one another about who was the greatest. 35 And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he…
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Why Homiletics is Important?
I used enthusiastically to listen to him preach to the people, not with the intention which I ought to have had, but as if testing out his oratorical skill to see whether his fluency was better or inferior than it was reported to be… I was not interested in learning what he was talking about.…