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Christians cannot expect to influence the wider culture without living and being active in the city.
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As the main purveyor of influence to surrounding communities, the city is where culture is formed. The Christian desire to shape culture with the gospel therefore requires Christians to live and be active in the city.
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Guest contributor Ken Davis of Baptist Bible Seminary provides an extensive, annotated bibliography of 104 texts related to church planting. Davis gives a brief explanation of each work, offers his own personal critiques, and includes information on where to find or buy them. Please note, the opinions expressed in this collection are those of the author's.
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An understanding of the biblical paradigm of creation, fall and redemption can help us to understand - and transform - our relationship with money.
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Worship isn't just about honoring tradition or keeping up with culture, it's about attracting nonbelievers through comprehensible worship and leading those people to personal commitment.
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In order to have the greatest impact on the city, and to reflect all aspects of gospel transformation, we seek to achieve a balance along five key ministry fronts.
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Anyone engaged in pastoral ministry today is faced with various frameworks for counseling. This article identifies four main spheres of counseling, the similarities and differences between them, and how one can carefully engage biblical principles in modern-day counseling.
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The way in which a particular church functions, including its strengths and weaknesses and the role of lay and staff leadership, will change dramatically depending on the church's size.
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Ministry places enormous pressures on one's integrity and character, pressures which require extra vigilance and a deeper understanding of one's need for God.
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This paper surveys the rise of global cities, the culture and dominant worldviews within these cities, and a framework for ministering in them.
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What are the common principles for any church plant? This article explores five basic principles.
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In order to reach the current, post-everything society, Christians must humbly admit we are not doing the job while continuing to advance the answers which Reformed theology provides.
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The contemporary preacher of orthodox Christianity faces an unprecedented dilemma: ministering in an age in which absolute truth is not recognized.
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On both a theological and a practical level, forgiveness is at the very heart of what it means to be a Christian. True forgiveness comes at a cost and is pursued intentionally within a community of believers.
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Living out the Bible's commands to love and serve God and our neighbor will naturally lead to our having an impact on the culture.
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The gospel is the central element in the Christian life and continually renews the believer and the Church. Outlined in this article are fourteen ways in which the gospel impacts the believer and eight ways it nurtures the Church.
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Self-righteousness leads to mocking others or humorlessness. The gospel, however, creates a gentle sense of irony.
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The Bible shows us how to humbly critique our own cultural biases while becoming a people of God united across a diversity of races, cultures and classes.
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Christian community is to be an alternate society in which sex, money, and power are used in life-giving ways that differ sharply from the practices of the broader culture. This article addresses sex in the context of the gospel and Christian community.
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Our individual and corporate commitment to the gospel ought to motivate ministry to the poor and marginalized among us. This article is adapted from a paper presented at The Gospel Coalition in 2008.
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Like God, there is only one gospel but it takes many forms. The gospel has been described as being simple enough for a child and profound enough for the greatest of minds to explore.
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The rapid decline of Christendom since the end of WWII has instituted an even greater need for "missional" churches to engage the surrounding community and retell the culture's stories through the context of the gospel.
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While urban settings offer innumerable opportunities for evangelism and growing church plants, there are also many difficulties facing the planter. These include religious and social climate adjustments, cultural adjustments, and increased financial responsibilities. Excerpt from Coaching Urban Church Planters.
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Paul used multiple approaches to help instigate and sustain growth in his missionary movements, such as engaging in intense outreach, undergoing biblical training, and creating people-oriented ministries. All of these initiatives were driven by a unity of vision and love and still serve as the model of church planting today.
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One of the most effective ways for Christians today to be "a city on a hill" would be for a large number of believers to move into the largest cities and live out their lives there.
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A vigorous and continuous approach to church planting is the only way to guarantee an increase in the number of believers, and is one of the best ways to renew the whole body of Christ.
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True worship is grasping a truth about God and then allowing that truth to strike you in the center of your being.
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