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I’ve just returned from a visit to Kenya where I met with Oscar Muriu and interviewed him and a number of the leaders who are the fruit of his ministry. It’s an amazing storty. Over the next week or two I’ll be featuring the story of Oscar Muriu and the Nairobi Chapel with a focus [...]

Is the US becoming a minority Protestant nation? Maybe, maybe not.

Kristin Walters tells the story of how the rest of the world is coming to the rescue.
When most Americans think of megachurches and missions, they think of us reaching overseas populations. But when large churches in other countries look at the United States, some are [...]

Over the last 20 centuries Christians have announced 1,500 global plans to evangelize the world. Most of those plans failed.

The 250 plans that focused on the year 2000 fell massively short of stated goals.

So what do we do now? We put aside our past failures and begin working on our “2020” plans. After that our [...]

According to the Age the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney has declared a formal split in the worldwide Anglican communion over the consecration of openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.

Speaking in Jerusalem before the opening today of a conference of 1000 conservative Anglican leaders, including 280 bishops, Dr Peter Jensen said the split [...]

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A recent survey of 750 Muslim background believers revealed five common reasons why they chose to follow Christ.
The lifestyle of Christians. Former Muslims cited the love that Christians exhibited in their relationships with non-Christians and their treatment of women as equals.The power of God in answered prayers and healing. According to the survey, experiences of [...]

PBS reports on the attempt to adapt Islam for the modern/western world: Muslim Televangelists

According to Moez Masoud the goal is “to present Islam in the most coolest way possible”.

I sent the story on to “Tom” a friend working among Muslims. thought you might be interested in the email traffic. . .
Tom: Interesting – I’ve listened [...]

Floyd McClung on the church, discipleship and church planting movements.

Floyd speaks out of his experience of over 40 years on the frontline in Afghanistan, Europe, the US and now southern Africa.

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Another training event, another wasted opportunity.

Today’s topic is team dynamics. You have some great material. People have paid real money to be there.

You never ask them why they came. You never tapped into the frustration, joy or wisdom of their team experience. From nine to five you gave them bullets points. Slide after slide after [...]

Here’s a graph of the growth in Southern Baptist membership over the last 50 years. Pretty impressive when you compare it to the decline of the mainline Protestants.

It’s not all good news if you look at the percentages instead of the absolute numbers. It would be even worse if you factored in population increases since [...]

Every living thing has limits to growth. Ever living thing dies. Growth has its boundaries in both space and time.

God made elephants big. He made whales enormous. But even their size has its limits. There are trees on this planet that last thousands of years. Even they die.

Growth is not the point. Size is not [...]