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Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on the Emerging Church

“What do you hope will ultimately emerge from the emerging church conversation for evangelicals?” A 9News Pastor’s and Theologian’s Forum Answers from D. A. Carson Mark Driscoll Michael Horton Mike McKinley Daniel Montgomery Brent Thomas Carl Trueman Jonathan Leeman   D. A. Carson Read more >

A Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Explaining the Gospel

We asked a roundtable of pastors and theologians two questions: Read more >

Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Race

We asked a roundtable of pastors and theologians the following questions: In From Every People and Every Nation, J. Daniel Hays writes, "Black scholars identify the racial division in the church as one of the most central problems for contemporary [church], while many White Scholars are saying, ‘What problem?’" (17). Is there a race problem in the American church? Are whites missing it? Why? What implications does this have for the church’s proclamation of the gospel? Answers from Read more >

What in the World is the Missional Church?

By Jonathan Leeman
Talk about being behind the curve. Several months ago, I began noticing how often the words "missional church" kept showing up in evangelical books and blogs. Reading up on the topic since then has left me feeling a bit like Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irving’s colonial American character who dozed off one afternoon as a loyal subject of King George III, only to wake up twenty years later and find that he had a foot long beard and that something called the Revolutionary War had been fought. Read more >

Satanism, Starbucks, and Other Gospel Challengers

By David Wells
9M: Apostles of church growth tell us that pop culture is our friend and the best vehicle for advancing the gospel. Why do you think that pop culture poses a threat to the church’s ability to hold onto and articulate the gospel? Read more >

Pastors' and Theologians' Forum on Church and Culture

We asked a roundtable of pastors and theologians the following questions: Does Scripture call the local church (by which we mean the local church as the local church, not as individual Christians) to the work of cultural transformation? For example, is a failing school system the responsibility of the local church? Answers from Read more >

Putting Contextualization in its Place

Contextualization is one of the hottest topics in missions today. Simply put, contextualization is the word we use for the process of making the gospel and the church as much at home as possible in a given cultural context. American Christians have a tendency to think of contextualization as something missionaries and overseas Christians do "over there," and then they worry about how far non-Western churches go in their contextualization efforts. However, every Christian alive today is actively involved in contextualization. Read more >

Five Steps for Racial Reconciliation on Sunday at 11 a.m.*

By D. A. Carson
Step 1: Know the History of the Problem Step 2: Recognize Our Mutual Culpability Read more >

Pastoring a Multi-Ethnic Church

By John Folmar
On any given Friday morning, you will find more than fifty different nationalities represented at our church gatherings. (Our church founders established the weekly meetings on Friday to accord with a Muslim working week.) The United Christian Church of Dubai (UCCD) gathers in the midst of a sea of Islam and materialism in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, a small oil-rich nation that borders Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. Read more >

Many Ethnicities, One Race

By Thabiti Anyabwile
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