On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, teacher, writer and minister Agshin Jafarov speaks about how scripture informs planting multi-ethnic churches. For a more detailed post on this subject, go to Agshin’s blog at http://www.biblicaltransformations.com When multi-ethnic churches are planted, certain principles can be followed that come from scripture. The first principle is the centrality of Jesus Christ. Jesus is the unifying principle …
The Great Light
“The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned. You have enlarged the nation and increased their joy; they rejoice before you as people rejoice at the harvest, as warriors rejoice when dividing the plunder. For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have …
What is Deep Change?
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Rick Veenstra emphasizes the importance of deep change in your ministry and the level of effort and time it takes to achieve transformational systemic change. The church in America has basically two choices: deep change or slow death. Slow death is kind of obvious. Deep change is not so obvious. Recently, someone asked Rick, “What is …
The Unfathomable, Knowable Love of God
A Note from Luminex: Throughout the Advent season, our Monday blogs are centered on the Advent theme of the week (Faith, Hope, Joy, Love, Christ), and about how the theme in some way informs our mission to multiply. Today’s post is on Love, and comes from Mike Gafa, Luminex Church Leadership Development Catalyst. “And I pray that you, being rooted …
Fostering Kingdom-Oriented Prayer in the Congregation
To kick off our second season of Whiteboard Wednesday, we have Jon Sherrill, who serves as the lead pastor at Fifth Reformed Church in Grand Rapids, discussing kingdom-focused prayer and how to foster it in your church. Kingdom-focused prayer has taken a greater priority for Jon and his community recently. Through collaboration with other churches to plant a new church …
Joy in Mission
A Note from Luminex: Throughout the Advent season, our Monday blogs are centered on the Advent theme of the week (Faith, Hope, Joy, Love, Christ), and about how the theme in some way informs our mission to multiply. Today’s post is on Joy, and comes from Andy Bossardet, Coordinator for Equipping Thriving Congregations (for the Reformed Church in America). “The secret source …
Multiplying Hope
A Note from Luminex: Throughout the Advent season, our Monday blogs are centered on the Advent theme of the week (Faith, Hope, Joy, Love, Christ), and about how the theme in some way informs our mission to multiply. Today’s post is on Hope, and comes from Art Wiers, Luminex Church Health Catalyst. Occasionally I am confronted in conversations by individuals who …