My Driving Convictions Concerning Frontier Missions P3 // Apostolic Community
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The seedbed in which frontier missionaries are cultivated is apostolic community. I will define both of these terms as we work through a brief exposition of Romans 15:17-33, Acts 11, and Acts 13. This chapter contains the clearest presentation of frontier missions in the whole Bible. And it also demonstrates how important apostolic community is to the task of frontier ministry. Read more >>
Did Jesus Discourage Corporate Public Prayer in Matthew 6?
I labor in the midst of a stream that desires to establish corporate prayer and worship from the rising of the sun to its going down. I love it. I am gripped with it. I’m sowing the majority of my time, my energy, and my resources in the prime of my life to this end: that the Church in our generation would be a praying Church with a high vision for the glory of God in the face of Christ and committed to serving the nations through intercession and a bold witness to the Gospel.
CRITICS OF CORPORATE PUBLIC PRAYER
Often critics of our stream point us to Matthew 6 saying that Jesus never asked this of His people. They argue that in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus openly discouraged corporate public prayer. Having been ‘swimming’ in this particular stream for almost a decade, Matthew 6 has been the passage I’ve heard cited the most as evidence against the prayer movement that is currently emerging in the nations. And so I wanted to give a brief response. Read more >>
Living to Be Memorialized
Ever heard of a guy named Cornelius? If you haven’t, you need to learn about him.
He and a young Jewish woman named Mary from a village called Bethany were the only two people in the New Testament whose lives the Lord sought to memorialize (“to preserve the memory of”). That is, because of how they caught the attention of heaven the Lord exalted them that others might emulate them.
So the question is, “Why were these two memorialized?”
Mary Read more >>
