Osei May is a friend of mine here at NOBTS, and he’s graduating. He was going to go to Boston in the fall to start ethne, a multi-cultural church plant. He went to a conference in Dallas and came back pretty much… well, let’s have Osei explain in an excerpt from his email: The conference:...
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Derek Webster is a friend of my friend Michelle Badon. They spent time in Germany and Austria with the IMB. I just wanted to take the opportunity to post a great quote from one of his latest posts. Here it is. For full text, click THIS. Jesus – the ultimate man on a mission/man in...
“Second, some missions have made a deliberate strategy to go for the rich, believing in some sort of religious ‘trickle-down’ theory. ‘Trickle-down’ no more works in the kingdom than it does in the economic realm. This strategic mistake lacks both biblical exegesis and sociological analysis and has already been refuted. “The gospel ‘trickles-up.’ Any man...
For Exegeting the City, a class I have on Mondays from 8-3 (5 times a semester), we adopted the East side of the Seventh Ward. That’s Elysian Fields west a few blocks and from N. Claiborne north across the Interstates. We prayerwalked on Monday, and on Wednesday we got an email that said a man...
Our India team at Edgewater got back last Tuesday and today David (Dr. Platt) preached his stinkin heart out. 1 Kings 18. The story of Elijah. It was incredible. We talked to one of their contacts on the phone during the first service. David called him last night and asked where he was. The contact...