Global Issues Facing the Global Church

by Michael Clark on March 12, 2010

lausanneLast December John Piper led a discussion with Doug Birdsall, Christopher Wright, and Lindsay Brown—three significant leaders in the Lausanne movement—about a number of missions-related topics.

They considered questions such as

  • What is the Lausanne Movement?
  • What are the 6 major issues facing the global church today?
  • How does the cross of Jesus Christ address these issues?
  • What are your dreams for Lausanne’s Cape Town 2010 conference?

To see the video go HERE.

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scott-thomasWatch the second of two short video interviews with Scott Thomas, Director of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network.

We posted the first Scott Thomas interview last week — check it here.  In this second video, Scott discusses:

  • The unique challenge of replanting a church
  • How to handle criticism and respond to it.

This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded by Crossing Church Pastor Dustin Neeley at Sojourn’s 930 Art Center, during the Acts 29 Network 2009 Louisville Boot Camp (Ambition):

Dustin Neeley is a former Sojourner who is now the pastor of Crossing Church in East Louisville, which we planted in 2005. Sojourn Lead Pastor Daniel Montgomery asked him to partner with us during the Louisville Boot Camp by shooting a series of video interviews with church planters, pastors and Acts 29 leaders.  Follow Pastor Dustin on his church planting blog, Church Planting For The Rest Of Us.

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Stay tuned for many more short video interviews, featuring leading church planters, pastors and members of the Acts 29 Network, here at churchplanting.sojournchurch.com.

Pictured above: Director of Acts 29 Scott Thomas addresses church planters at the 2009 Louisville Boot Camp at Sojourn Community Church, while the Sojourn worship band looks on.

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Acts 29 Director Scott Thomas Offers Advice For Church Planters

March 3, 2010

Watch this short video interview with Scott Thomas, Director of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network.
In this video, Scott discusses:

Top Five qualities of a successful church planter
wisdom for those who are considering becoming a church planter
the “one thing” church planters need to know

This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded [...]

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The Hess Family: Our Sojourn Baby

March 2, 2010

This past summer Sojourn had the privilege of sending out the Hess family as one of our Sojourn missionary families.  After being commissioned, Doug, Marissa, and Avalyn moved to Costa Rica for language training in preparation for their future work in Argentina. 
Since that time God has blessed the Hess family with Analeigh, who was born in [...]

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Sovereign Grace Ministries’ Dave Harvey Speaks At Sojourn On Church Planting

February 22, 2010

Watch this  short video interview with Dave Harvey, Director of Church Planting and Church Care for Sovereign Grace Ministries. Dave Harvey is also the author of When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering The Power Of The Gospel For Marriage.
In this video, Dave discusses:

discerning the call to church planting
the role of the church in that process
the balance [...]

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Gospel Translations: Gospel resources in a variety of languages

February 10, 2010

Gospel Translations is making resources available in a variety of languages from ministries like Sovereign Grace Ministries, Desiring God, 9Marks, Ligonier, and The Gospel Coalition.
Resources are available in the following languages:

Afrikaans
Amharic
Arabic
Bahasa Indonesia
Burmese
Dutch
French
German
Greek
Hindi
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Swahili
Tagalog
Turkish
Urdu
and many more

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Church Planting Advice From Pastor Kevin Cawley of Redeemer Fellowship in Kansas City

February 9, 2010

Watch this  short video interview with Pastor Kevin Cawley of Redeemer Fellowship in Kansas City, member of the Acts 29 church planting network.
This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded by Crossing Church Pastor Dustin Neeley at Sojourn’s 930 Art Center, during the Acts 29 Network 2009 Louisville Boot Camp [...]

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Pastor Yancey Arrington On How To Preach, How To Find “Emotional Center” Of Bible Passage

February 1, 2010

Watch part two of a short video interview with Bruce Wesley and Yancey Arrington from Clear Creek Community Church in Houston, members of the Acts 29 church planting network.
This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded by Crossing Church Pastor Dustin Neeley at Sojourn’s 930 Art Center, during the Acts [...]

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Clear Creek Church’s Bruce Wesley & Yancey Arrington Speak On Church Planting, Acts 29

January 26, 2010

Watch this short, interview with Bruce Wesley and Yancey Arrington from Cleark Creek Community Church in Houston, members of the Acts 29 church planting network.
This is part of a series of video interviews with church planters recorded by Crossing Church Pastor Dustin Neeley at Sojourn’s 930 Art Center, during the Acts 29 Network 2009 Louisville Boot [...]

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Time of fellowship with the Haitian community in Louisville

January 25, 2010

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts  us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with  which we ourselves are comforted by God.” (2 Cor. [...]

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