This is an amazing story from Nick Kwok, an awesome brother that I work with. I really hope this encourages you to seek God and ask him to speak to you and guide you in your ministry. He will speak unexpectantly! Do you believe that?
Beau Crosetto
How to Identify an Evangelist in Your Ministry
“How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” Rom 10:15
If we are going to activate evangelistic people in our ministry, then we have to know what they look like! Sometimes this can be pretty easy if they are highly gifted and are more developed. But if they are a young person it may not be as clear from the surface. You will want to know what to look for. Here are six indicators I often am looking for.
The Love/Hate Relationship With Planting
- It’s awkward to wait for people alone and get stood up…Just me & the lemonade…cool
By Beau Crosetto
“I am lonely.”
“I can’t do this anymore.”
“I don’t know if I have what it takes.”
“I think I could be doing something better with my life.”
“I am sure there are other things that I am better at that I could spend my time doing.”
If you have ever said something like this, then keep reading!
Sentness: Kim Hammond’s New Book
Today is the launch day for Kim Hammond’s new book. I haven’t read it yet but I am sure it will kick butt. Kim is one of the funniest guys I know, so I am sure there are some laughs in here.
But beyond that, he lives “sentness”. He moved his family to America from Australia and they have taken it in the chops multiple times. One of his boys got cancer and they have had to battle that, and now Kim himself is battling cancer as you read this. But they will not turn back! He loves America and the church and God has sent him and his family here. They are committed to this country and helping us grow!
If anyone can write this book, Kim can. He has been living this call out to the extreme.
1) Its going to help you live into mission better
2) Kim is a great guy and you can support him tangibly in this tough time.
Do me a favor and support Kim by giving a tweet to his new book.
The Five Habits of Highly Missional People
This is a must read ebook! I really think this is a winner and I am going to make my staff read it and recommend it to all the students in our ministry. I love this book by Michael Frost because it gives a great hook about evangelism and why and how we should do it, but then it gives us very very practical ways to live out a Jesus-centered life. He gives us an acronym, BELLS, and each letter is a simple yet challenging habit that if you live into with community God is going to move.
What you don’t transform, you will transmit
By Beau Crosetto
Here is a great excerpt I read that I wanted to pass along. Any believer needs to be thinking about their shadow self and how they are bringing it into the light of Jesus. I hope this helps as you continue to press the edge of mission as an apostle, prophet or evangelist.
“It is really shocking how little Jesus is shocked by human failure and sin. In fact, it never appears that he is upset at sinners at all. He is only and consistently upset at people who do not think they are sinners. This momentous insight puts him centuries ahead of modern psychology and right at the center of rare but authentic religion. So much so, that most Christianity itself never notices or addresses this pattern. It is an inconvenient truth.
Does God Give Us Signs To Help Us Believe?
As an evangelist, one of my favorite things to do is speak to groups of people that are trying to figure out if Jesus is real and worth following. I love talking to people that are not of the Christian faith yet.
I recently gave a talk at UCLA to about 300 students at it was all about signs.
Justified Anger: Racial Profiling
photo courtesy of MICHELLE STOCKER — The Capital Times
I am way late on this post, but its not too late. Rev. Alex Gee, a friend of mine and pastor among many things in Madison Wisconsin, is speaking out on racial profiling and why he is concerned about life in Madison for an African American. He is raising some great points.
I am posting it here for three reasons:
Why Does God Allow Pain & Suffering?
Last week at UCLA on Greek Row discussing, “I would follow Jesus BUT…I want to have fun.”
By Beau Crosetto
I am speaking inside a fraternity house on Wednesday night on this subject. Its a tough one. We are in the middle of a series called, “I would follow Jesus BUT…
This week the statement is, “BUT…he allows bad things to happen to people.”
I’d love your prayers as I have this discussion, but I’d also like to pass along this helpful video as well as the website as a whole…
Winner: APE Tshirt Design
Ok, we are almost ready to print! Here was the clear cut winner from the comments, Facebook & Twitter. It was suggested to put the “ape” where the O is and I like that a lot. I also had them put the website on the back.
But I think we need two kinds of options so I want to print one more kind of shirt as well. Please vote in the comments for the one you like best out of these three choices.