Year: 2015
The Gospel is Never Neutral
By Tyler Allred
Here’s my premise: If the Bible is actually God speaking to us, if Jesus is God become human, if his death and resurrection are real, and if that “gospel” is the powerful good news Christians claim it to be, then having a neutral response is not an option.
What is Apostolic Confidence?
I have just started a book called To Spread the Power: Church Growth in the Wesleyan Spirit and I’m the section on apostolic confidence.
Reverend McCabe was sent by the Methodists in 1881 to plant churches all over the Northwest and they came to a point where they were starting a CHURCH A DAY and in some months two a day! He wrote about his mission in a paper and this is one great story:
Video: Derek Redmond
Yesterday at church I had the privilege of preaching at talk on “Awakening to Help” based off of Dave & Jon Ferguson’s book “Finding Your Way Back To God”.
During the talk I shared a video of Derek Redmond who was an olympic runner in the 1982 games.
How NOT to Make Someone a Project in Evangelism
I share with you my GO TO LINE that clears the tension and sets up an organic environment for spiritual conversations to happen!
How To Create An Environment Of Innovation
By Jon Hietbrink
As A.P.E. leaders our concern isn’t merely with the motivating the activity of A.P.E. ministry, but cultivating an environment where apostolic, prophetic, and evangelistic leaders can emerge and thrive—we are both builders and architects.
In his work, Where Good Ideas Come From, author Stephen Johnson does a masterful job of capturing the qualities of environments that produce the kind of innovation we desire in ministry, and I found his thoughts both quite helpful and provocative for us as A.P.E. leaders. Though there’s of course more that could be said, here are a few of my favorite takeaways in understanding the “architecture of innovation” and how we can capture it for the sake of the Kingdom.
Blessings of a Post-Christian Culture
This is a great article on living the Christian faith out in a Post Christian society. Written by Tony Kriz.
The article focuses on the church in Portland and how they are partnering to transform the city. One man who was visiting the discussion was from South Carolina and he was baffled about how the city and the church could partner so well in such a non-Christian environment like Portland.
So the man asked in the forum,
[Video] – Three Rules We Must Break To Be Effective In Evangelism
I am going to start filming a short video every week to encourage you in the sharing of your faith. I have about 70 questions or so that people have submitted to me since the release of my book and I want to answer those to help you all.
[Do you have a question that you want to submit? submit it here.]
I will be releasing the videos at my personal website www.beaucrosetto.com on a weekly basis, so subscribe there if this would be helpful to you.
Otherwise, about once a month I will put a post up here on this blog recapping the four weeks worth of videos and pointing you to where you can find those.
BUT I JUST FILMED THE FIRST ONE – ITS 5 MINUTES LONG
This Year’s Most Popular Genre of Porn
This is not spam.
I came across this article on Facebook and I thought I should share it here. I couldn’t believe (well I guess I can believe) what the most searched “preference” in porn was this last year.
You can read about it here.
don’t worry, you won’t see any porn, its a clean site.
BUT ALL OF US MUST BE INFORMED!
Our Church Failed – 3 Lessons Learned
Last month we decided to shut our church plant down. Very disappointing news and I am still confused, saddened, and learning from the failure.
I hesitated to even write about it, but in the end I am about honesty, and helping planters grow. Therefore, we need to share the wins and the losses.
I know that my identity is not the success or failure of my ventures, so I feel I can talk about it in an objective way. I also know that if you are apostolic and entrepreneurial then you are going to fail sometimes. It’s part of starting things and part of taking risks.
So here I share with you my biggest ministry failing since becoming Christian.