What the Popular Stationery Store, Paper Source™, Teaches Us About Living Missionally in North America
The walls were lined with every kind of colorful, artistic card for the holidays in the popular Paper Source store.
The walls were lined with every kind of colorful, artistic card for the holidays in the popular Paper Source store.
Imagine hearing the gospel for the first time in a foreign language. How might this negatively affect your heartfelt connection to Jesus?
As cross-cultural workers it is easy to start out with the best intentions and a tried-and-true disciple-making model in hand. But it is much harder to stick with that plan through thick and thin. It doesn’t take much to slowly drift from our original biblical, reproducible model. Read more about how to consciously prevent disciple-making movement drift.
Americans are passionate about equality, equal opportunity, and justice for all, and rightfully so. That is what Jesus had in mind when He promised and gave the Holy Spirit.
Jesus constantly spoke about the kingdom of God in the beginning, in the middle, and at the end of His ministry, which means the kingdom of God was the plot of the story. The kingdom of God is not a seeable place or even a belief system, but rather it is the rule and reign of God in the hearts, thoughts, and actions of His people through Jesus.
What would our mission strategies consist of if we allowed the Book of Acts to thoroughly permeate and shape our approaches? How would our postmodern day acts of the apostles be different if our American worldview didn’t drive our mission methodology so broadly and intensely?
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