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Sep
10
Compassion Int’l
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Several of us are still work on are partnership with Compassion. Here’s a impressive set of reflections — the 1900+ LDP students are college students, formerly sponsored children in poverty, who are now studying at the best universities in their countries.
Dec
2
George Bailey and Evangelism
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A great article by Steve Sjogren on Evangelism from the Christmas classic: “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Nov
19
Just Courage
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“Here is one choice that our Father wants us to understand as Christians – and I believe it is the choice of our age. Do we want to be brave or safe? Gently, lovingly – our heavenly Father wants us to know that we simply can’t be both.”
— Gary Haugen
We have all had moments and glimpses of our own courage.
We’ve all been brave when we needed to be.
The question is, how can we live more like that? In fact, how can we live like that so consistently that it becomes who we actually are?
In Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian, International Justice Mission President Gary Haugen leads us on a journey to freedom from the triviality and fear that can stifle our lives.
Set against the frontlines of today’s battle against slavery and injustice, Haugen shows how common people are called to uncommon courage – and how we, too, can be a part of God’s great expedition.
Just Courage: God’s Great Expedition for the Restless Christian from International Justice Mission on Vimeo.
Listen to Gary Haugen explain why he wrote Just Courage during a recent IJM staff meeting.
Sep
11
Give Me Your Eyes
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Jul
15
Sacrificial Revolutionary Christianity
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It’s not just social justice but sacrificial revolutionary Christianity. This is what our culture is looking for – they’re looking for something that’s worth giving their life for, and that’s the kind of Christianity that we want to talk about – that’s what Jesus was about. If it’s not worth giving our life for, what’s the point of doing it at all?
I want to surprise people, challenge people, stir controversy – because the gospel is revolutionary.
Mar
4
Begin with Compassionate Service
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New Generations International, a church planting organization, suggests the following 5 steps in their church planting process–a process that begins with service. Each of these steps are part of a simple process we could use to help launch missional teams to new locations.
1. Begin with Compassionate Service. As Jesus went from village to village, he was moved by compassion, encasing his preaching and teaching in an environment of healing. When Jesus sent out he 72 disciples in Luke 10, he told them to pronounce peace, healing the sick and saying, ‘The Kingdom of God has come near to you.’ It is the light of “good works” shining before others that opens the door to the Father’s glory.
2. Build Relationships. Once we are accepted, the key to everything is relationships. As we build relationships with many, we will find the men and women who will serve as “persons of peace” to help us bring the Gospel to the whole community.
3. Launch Avenues for Discovery & Obedience. Look for ways to facilitate the personal discovery of God’s will. Begin to preach and teach the Scriptures in such a way that God begins to speak for Himself and draw people to himself in ever increasing obedience to Jesus.
4. Develop the Inside Leaders with a Movement Planting vision and capacity. As men and women begin to obey God over time, focus more and more time on developing them as “leaders” who will continue to reproduce ever more churches and movements.
5. Multiply at every level. Reproduction is critical–disciples making other disciples, leaders developing other leaderships, movements launching other movements.
Jan
4
Stories: Michelle’s Story
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Check out this story.
Dec
29
Campus Toolbox–A Different Way of Thinking
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Many of us are wrestling with a new way of thinking. We’ve embraced in the past the fundraising maxim that “within 5 miles of every campus exist the financial resources to reach the campus with the Gospel.”
Marrty Dormish (Staff STINT–Barcelona) suggests reversing the thinking to help our college ministries think of ways to be a blessing, to extend the rule and reign of God on their campus and in their surrounding communities.
Marrty suggests that we start believing that “resources exist on every college campus to help transform, restore and heal the cities and towns in which these institutions of higher learning exist.”
If we see our ministries through a more “externally-focused” grid, we might see new ways of expanding the “passionate proclamation and compassionate demonstration” of the gospel both on the campus and in the surrounding community. For example, our campus movement could help mobilizing the campus and the resources of the campus to transform the slums nearby, to help care for those in need of social work, to build houses, to reclaim run-down property, to teach kids how to read, to help the uninsured get treatment…and on and on. Thanks Marrty.
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Dec
17
Orphan Care Resources from Brenda N.
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Brenda Niemeyer has compiled this list of orphan care partners/potential partners. Thanks, Brenda
Orphan Care Resources from Brenda N.
Dec
16
Dare You To Move
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