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What is the Church Ep. 4: The Ephesians 4 Church Growth Plan
There has been a HUGE "church growth" movement in my lifetime, but almost no one talks about the fact that Paul laid out a growth plan for us IN THE BIBLE.
The methods of growth the last few decades have really...
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What is the Church? Ep 3: Apostolic Blueprints
Is there actually one right way to do church?
As Protestants, we may not always say we believe there’s “one true church”...but sometimes we still act like there’s one right set of traditions, one right structure, or...
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The 3 Plymouth Brethren Lessons That Shaped My Spiritual DNA
My family and I spend a lot of time at Lakeside Bible Camp in Washington. I grew up coming here in the summers, and it's a big part of my own spiritual DNA, having been founded by a group of Plymouth Brethren...
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How To Restore The Biblical Church (We Keep Missing This One Step!)
How do we restore the Biblical church?
The answer might surprise you.
It turns out most people are missing a step.
That step, it turns out, is family.
But NOT the kind of family you're thinking of...
The Biblical...
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The Patient Ferment of the Early Church (Book Review + Top 10 Things I Learned)
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church is one of the top 3 books I've read in the last 10 years.
In this episode, I'm going to give you my review of it, why it was so amazing and challenging for me, and the top 10...
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What is the Church? Ep 2: How Acts Describes the Church
What kind of church did Jesus envision?
This is part 2 of my attempt to answer that, breaking down the church into it's various "cornerstones", from the ground up, in this order:
Family
The Confession
Parallel...
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God Told Him To Stop Everything And Start Making Disciples ft. Brian Phipps
Small Groups are NOT the same as disciple-making.
Brian was deep into Small Groups, doing it the way everyone's been doing it for ages, when the Lord suddenly convicted him that he wasn't actually fulfilling the Great...
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We're Getting Church Growth All Wrong (What I'm Doing Instead)
99% of pastors admit that they're failing at this.
And it's one of the reasons nobody can tell me where to find a disciple-making movement that survives to the fourth generation and beyond...one that truly makes...
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What is the Church? Ep 1: What Kind of Church did Jesus Envision?
This question is the foundation for SO much of our lives as Christians as we walk with Jesus.
If He looked around today, would He recognize the church?
How do we really know if the church we're worshiping in was what...
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This Is Why I'm Still Protestant (Jesus' Wineskin Parable EXPLAINED)
Is there one true church?
Or could Jesus have been talking about the different expressions of church in His parable about the wineskin that we read about in Matthew, Mark, and Luke?
I'm willing to say that maybe Jesus...
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The REAL Reason Evangelicalism is Losing So Many People
This seems like something only theologians would worry about, but we're seeing it play out on the ground, and it's time to call it out.
The evangelical movement lacks a cohesive ecclesiology and can't seem to...
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A 21st Century Guide To Chain-Reaction Disciple-Making in the West
Sometimes it takes leaving a position to see what you've been missing the whole time.
That was certainly the case for today's guest, Cory Hartman.
After 13 years in a pastoral role, he entered a new chapter as a dad...
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