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Antioch
How One Church is Growing
Tags: antioch, church, discipleship, growth
Our History
Antioch started in 1988 as a discipleship school based around three simple concepts: encountering God, life-on-life discipleship and missions through the local church. Our goal has...
No Longer “Church as Usual”
Tags: church, disceipleship, disciple, great commission, t4t
Adapted with permission from http://www.OnwardChurch.org/vision
In December 2011, Gary Stump started Onward Church in Fishers, IN in the T4T model. As of December 2013 they reported 1,000 people...
Come Quickly Dawn
From George Patterson’s book Come Quickly Dawn (William Carey Library: 2012)
Tags: book, church, holy, novel, patterson
Become Holy by Nurturing the Fruit of the Spirit with Others’ Help
(pp 89-90, 92)
Julio groaned. “Leaping over Mount Silverado would be easier for me than to be holy. I can’t live with purity...
Solid Grounding Transforms Worldview to Bring Forth Multiplying Fruit
Tags: cell church, church, church planting, fruit, multiplying
(originally printed September 2009 in eLINK—Magazine of World Team, under the title GO SLOW TO GO FAST: Cell and House Church Multiplication in the Philippines. The article has been updated for...
Raising Local Resources
Recruits or Dependents?
Tags: church, dependency, dependents, discipleship, recruits
Over the years I have written and spoken quite a lot about discovering and using local resources for the furtherance of God’s kingdom. My heart’s desire is to see the church around the world become...
From the Editor
What Does God Want the Church to Do?
Tags: church, demonstration, disease, lincoln, proclaimation, water
A tall, rugged man stands at the bedside of his 11 year-old-son. The boy had been sick with a fever for days but now it is over. Lifting the bed-sheet and gazing down at his son’s now lifeless...
What Should We Do With All Our Money?
When Global Generosity Destroys Local Generosity
Tags: church, dependency, finances, funding, resource
When sitting down to talk with donors in a North American context, the question I am most often asked is, “What should we do with all our money?”
There is no doubt that the Bible promotes...
Demystifying Discipleship
Finding a More Biblical Model for the Multiplication of Disciples and Churches
Tags: biblical model, church, discipleship, equipping, multiplication
Jesus’ final commandment to His followers was to “Go and make disciples of all nations. . .teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you.” (Matt. 28:19-20) His mandate is just as urgent now...
Framing a New Model of Training Cross-Cultural Church Planters
Tags: church, cross-cultural, leadership, planters, training
Introduction
Confusion of massive proportions is taking place across the missionary enterprise. Great cultural change in the world has thwarted both young and old so that many are unable to...
Further Reflections
Next Steps in Your Church
Tags: church, engaged, frontiers, frontlines, globally minded
Without the “fires burning” on the home front, things go cold on the frontlines. The first time I wrote about this in MF was in the 1990s. Over the years, I’ve written about the need for a...