Part of the difficulty in attempting to synthesize a philosophy of missional worship is that many different groups have adopted the term missional to describe… Read More »The Missionary Imperative of Missional Worship
Flowing naturally from the idea that God has an overarching mission for mankind, thus rendering that mission God-centered, is the assertion that the church, as… Read More »The Missionary Imperative of the Missional Church – the Church as Sent
The first principle that drives the missional church is what it considers the biblically-mandated missionary imperative. But while the evangelical church has traditionally considered evangelism… Read More »The Missionary Imperative of the Missional Church – Missio Dei
Most church leaders readily recognize that God has tasked the church with several different purposes, yet how those purposes work together has equally mystified them.… Read More »The Influence of the Missional Church on Worship
I appreciate Joel Beeke, the pastor of the Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation of Grand Rapids and the President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Homiletics… Read More »Handled with reverence and care
Few passages of Scripture are more popular among contemporary Christians than 1 Corinthians 9:19‐23. Especially fashionable is Paul’s line in verse 22 about becoming “all… Read More »All Things to All Men
The purpose of culture is not to reach the lost or give authentic expression for Christians; it is to express and cultivate right worship. In… Read More »The Purpose of Music in Missions
How important is it that we worship God and him alone? Deuteronomy 13:6-11 is one of those passages that jars our modern sensibilities as a… Read More »Nor shall your eye pity him
The dethroning of the Church by Reason and the creation of pop culture left the Church in an awkward position. Its cultural influence was non-existent.… Read More »Two Roads Diverged
This series is available in booklet format. Audio versions: Biblical Contextualization The First Principles of the Gospel Responsibility and Sovereignty in Evangelism The Power of… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel – Full Series
The danger with most discussions of contextualization today is that the imply that the work of evangelism is entirely up to us. In other words,… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 4 – Responsibility and Sovereignty in Evangelism
Paul did, in fact, contextualize the gospel. He presented it differently with the Thessalonican Jews than he did with the pagan Athenians. But in so… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 3 – The First Principles of the Gospel
There is a popular thought today in evangelicalism that says that if we as Christians are going to reach unbelievers around us, we need to… Read More »Contextualizing the Gospel, Part 1 – Introduction