| E-NEWSLETTER OF THE REDEEMER CHURCH PLANTING CENTER | |
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| GLOBAL CITY CHURCH PLANTING |
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The conference confirmed the importance of coming together for mutual encouragement, fellowship and training in our collective vision for renewing cities around the world through church planning. As we have studied movements around the world, we are discovering the importance of shared experiences that further ignite and grow healthy movements of churches. These shared experiences include seasons of celebration and fellowship, renewal of values through learning what God has done through others, prayer dynamics both in preparation for and during the conference, and special times of worship. While we cannot recreate the dynamics of the conference in a newsletter, we have attempted to capture some of the content by providing the following articles. |
MINISTRY IN THE NEW GLOBAL CULTURE OF MAJOR CITY-CENTERS The mobility of capital means national governments are now virtually powerless to control the flow of money in and out of their own economies, thus greatly decreasing their influence in general. The cities are the seats of multi-national corporations and international economic, social, and technological networks... > MORE
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SOWING THE GOSPEL IN THE NETHERLANDS BY REPLANTING A CHURCH In this post-Christian, secular city, less than three percent of the citizens attend church. But it is in this setting that many reformed churches from several different denominations are seeking to plant new churches in order to renew Amsterdam and draw its citizens to the gospel of Jesus Christ. > MORE
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CONDUCTING YOUR MINISTRY BEFORE THE WATCHING WORLD If you desire to reach secular, skeptical nonbelievers, however, then you must ask, “How do I conduct my corporate, congregational life as well as my private life in a way that does not add to the offense of the Gospel, but which allows the focus to remain on Jesus and who he is?” If your desire is for the Gospel of Jesus to have a fair hearing in a world predisposed to ignore, ridicule, and suspect Christianity of ulterior motives, then you will have to continually clear away obstacles to the faith. > MORE
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PRAYER AND THE SEQUENCE OF NEW TESTAMENT MISSION In doing the work of church planting and development, it is helpful to study the means of growth for the first Christian churches as found in the Book of Acts. Specifically, Acts reveals the work of a church planter as engaging in steadfast prayer... > MORE |
BOOKS: GLOBAL CITIES
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