The mission of the church is making disciples. Doing so is accomplished through baptism and through teaching believers to obey everything Jesus commanded. Sounds simple, right? Well, it is — and it isn’t. Let me explain. If disciple-making was strictly an academic pursuit, we could package it as a curriculum of books and classes and
What is the mission of the Church? That’s a big question — and trying to answer it keeps a lot of pastors and church leaders up at night. Trust me on that. I didn’t sleep well last night. I think part of the struggle in defining the mission is understanding the difference between the universal
You can’t consider the purposes of the church without considering the vital directive Jesus gave His disciples in John 13:34, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” The command to love one another was not new to the disciples. When a teacher
As we emerge from the pandemic, the Church world is asking itself some very basic questions: What is the Church? What is the Church supposed to be doing? How does the Church know when it is doing the right things? How does the Church determine when it has been successful? The answers to these questions
As we emerge from the madness of a global pandemic catastrophe, the Church-world is taking a hard look at itself – and well, it should. The Church, especially in the United States, has been losing ground for nearly 50 years. The Church in the US has experienced the greatest missional opportunities of the past 2,000
A foundational tenet of the Christian faith is the understanding that the nature of humanity is fallen from its original holy design and irreparably bent toward self. (See Romans 3:9-20). The terrible and inhuman cycle of human history affirms the veracity of this tenet again and again and again. Humanity is in bondage to its
