by Luke Geraty | Mar 14, 2017 | Church Life, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Cultural Engagement, Disciple Making, Discipleship, Evangelism, Leadership, Messy Church, Missional, Practical Theology, Preaching
Over the years I’ve been approached by a few people who wanted to either use the gifts they believed they had or be trained and equipped to minister through speaking (e.g., preaching, teaching, training, etc.). In simple terms, they wanted opportunities to speak...
by Brad Blocksom | Sep 27, 2016 | Church Life, Church Planting, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Cultural Engagement, Disciple Making, Discipleship, Evangelicalism, Evangelism, Family, Leadership, Messy Church, Missional, Money, Practical Theology, Prayer, Preaching, Small Groups
I came across these podcasts and, quite frankly, they were pretty eye opening for me (they’re kind of all related). So I wanted to share them here and see if we could get some good discussion going in the comments below. And, here they are: This one talks about...
by Brad Blocksom | Feb 9, 2016 | Cross-Cultural Ministry, Disciple Making, Discipleship, Evangelicalism, Evangelism, Leadership, Missional, Practical Theology
So you may recall that I have written in the past here on the Missional Model vs. the Attractional model for Church. I’ve also written here that the commonly used metrics of Butts in Seats & “Decisions” for Christ are poor measures of an...
by Robby McAlpine | Nov 24, 2015 | Cross-Cultural Ministry, Cultural Engagement, Ethics, Ethnic Reconciliation, Immigration, Missional, Practical Theology
The past week has been pretty overwhelming, hasn’t it? At least, that’s how I found it. Terrorist attacks in Paris. Syrian refugees. Shrill rhetoric. Chronic knee-jerking coupled with self-righteous finger pointing — from all sides. Life was so much...
by Brad Blocksom | Feb 17, 2015 | Church Life, Church Planting, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Disciple Making, Discipleship, Evangelicalism, Evangelism, Leadership, Messy Church, Missional, Practical Theology
Bear with me for a minute: A guy (or gal) has a heart/gifting for evangelism. So what does he do? Does he become an evangelist? No she becomes the Pastor of a Church and endeavors to create an organization centered around her goal of soul-winning. She turns every...
by Brad Blocksom | Sep 10, 2014 | Cross-Cultural Ministry, Messy Church, Missional, Practical Theology, Short-term
I recently read a comment in a long thread that I found to be pretty insightful, which asserts exactly that. Jim Wright makes a pretty good case for the idea that the way we typically help the poor (while well intentioned and does meet a real, felt, and very practical...
by Luke Geraty | May 21, 2014 | Church Planting, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Cultural Engagement, Disciple Making, Evangelism, Leadership, Missional, Practical Theology, Small Town Church
Here’s a quick round up of some short articles I’ve written or contributed to in regards to small town rural church ministry: Ministry Longevity in Small Towns – Bob Logan was kind enough to allow me to reflect on the importance of ministry longevity...
by Luke Geraty | Feb 26, 2014 | Cross-Cultural Ministry, Cultural Engagement, Disciple Making, Missional, Practical Theology
My first experience of doing “evangelism” was when I was around fifteen years old and our youth group traveled to an inner city neighborhood. After some training, we broke up into teams and went door to door to “share our faith.” The catch, of...
by Luke Geraty | Oct 25, 2013 | Cross-Cultural Ministry, Disciple Making, Practical Theology, Preaching, Short-term, World Misions
In 1843, Robert Moffat preached at the Barbican Chapel a sermon that raised the searching question of the eternal destination of those in foreign lands. He asked, “Who can look to the East Indies now, and to China now; who can look to those interesting portions...
by Luke Geraty | Jan 19, 2013 | Charismatic Theology, Church & Pastoral, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Missional, Reviews, Theology, World Misions
While I’m not a missiologist, I am very interested in issues related to missions, evangelism, and contextualization. Not only am I interested in those subjects from a biblical perspective, I’m also interested in how those principles are extracted and...
