Evangelism
5 Ways Your Church Can Get Involved in Global Missions Starting Tomorrow
By D. Platt, P. Akin | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.20152.8 billion people have little to no access to the gospel. What can we do about it, starting tomorrow?
4 Practices of a Great Commission Church
By Mark Dever | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Too often, a grotesque competitiveness marks evangelical churches. But a Great Commission church does not compete with other gospel-preaching churches.
What Would Happen if You Sent Your Best?
By Steve Jennings | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.21.2015Sending your best people means new and healthy churches will be planted, and your congregation will mature.
Stop Sending Missionaries: Why More Isn’t Always Better
By Steve Jennings | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 12.18.2015The workers are few, and the harvest is great. But that does not mean just any and all workers will do.
Mailbag #24: What Happens to Infants Who Die; Thinking through Civil Disobedience; Calling Out False Teachers by Name
By Jonathan Leeman | 12.14.2015— What happens to infants who die? Do they go to heaven? — How should Christians think through the category of “civil disobedience”? — Should pastors call out false teachers by name?
Book Review: Talking to Catholics about the Gospel, by Chris Castaldo
Review by Leonardo De Chirico | 11.30.2015My hope is that this book will set the tone for present and future engagements by evangelicals to their Catholic friends.
9 Marks of Healthy Missions
By J. Mack Stiles | 9Marks Journal: Missions: Adding Wisdom to Zeal | 11.18.2015The best thing you can do for missionaries is to make sure you keep your church healthy. They can’t do the work there if churches are unhealthy here.
One Example of Reaching Your Multi-Ethnic Neighbors
By Juan Sanchez | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015Once one understands the place of the local church in God’s eternal plan, it’s worth re-thinking both ethnic-language church planting and ethnic-language ministry in general.
Helping Asian Churches Become Multi-Ethnic
By Patrick Cho | 9Marks Journal: Multi-Ethnic Churches | 09.25.2015How can a church with a particular ethnic identity strive to become more multiethnic? Here are eight principles to consider.
5 Ministry Opportunities Unique to College Campuses
By Paul Billings | 04.02.2015Recent church history tells us that the college campus is one of the most strategic places for your church to focus on. What would it look like for your church to get involved?
Book Review: Reforming Mercy Ministry, by Ted Rivera
Review by Timoteo Sazo | 01.05.2015Thought-provoking and challenging, this book is a guide that church leaders and church members will find helpful as they seek to form, or reform, their own mercy ministries.
How I Select and Schedule Discipling Relationships
By Greg Spraul | 12.23.2014I’m not the Messiah, Jesus is, and I want Jesus to be the main thing for the person I disciple, not me or anyone else.
Books and Discipleship: A Conversation across Five Continents
By K. Mbugua, M. Dever, M. McConnell, R. Denham | 12.03.2014Mark Dever interviews four men ministering across four continents: South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Blossoming Flowers Where Mao Wasn’t Looking
By Daniel Bays | 9Marks Journal: Vanishing Church? | 12.03.2014It appears in retrospect that the Cultural Revolution, seen at the time as an unmitigated disaster for the church, was actually of great assistance to the growth of Christianity in many places in China.
