Pakistan Relief - $18K+ from Acts 29 and The Resurgence friends
Did you read about the August 1 attack of the Christian village, Gojra, in Pakistan? Many Acts 29 churches and many via The Resurgence gave generously and relief has been immediate. See Acts 29 brother Jacob Vanhorn's blog with photos of the relief. Over $18K was raised and is being distributed now.
Rethink Mission: Resource for Missional Churches
Jonathan McIntosh has unleashed a new resource for missional churches in the form of the brand-spankin'-new www.rethinkmission.org website - featuring interviews with church planters & authors and covering topics from new music to missional preaching. With an advisory board like this one, we're sure to see great, solid stuff. Who's Jonathan ...
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Meet our newest Acts 29 Member, Ryan Huguley! We are excited to see the network grow and grow, and even more thankful to see new churches being planted like Redemption Bible Church.
Acts 29: Tell us about your calling to plant a church.
Ryan: Three years ago I was content. Life was good and there was nothing I would have changed. I had an amazing new wife, I had the great privilege of serving in my first full-time ministry position, a boss that was challenging me and helping me grow, and I was getting to do all God put on my heart to do. And then came that night.
Sitting in a business meeting, I heard God speak to me more clearly than ever before. So clearly in fact, that it scared me, because what He said would change so much of what I ...
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Rick White is an Acts 29 member and lead pastor of CityView Church in Fort Worth, Texas. He recently wrote a very practical article on communicating the complementarian view of male headship to those who are skeptical or confused.
“I believe many complementarians do a terrible job of offering a defense for their views,” says Rick in preface to his recent blogpost Addressing Questions Regarding Gender Roles. He continues by stating that he sees three main “fronts” that need to be considered in persuasively and intelligently discussing complementarianism. Here they are with the questions that Rick poses:
The Biblical Front. “What does the Bible say on this matter? What are the most basic and elemental texts that speak to gender ...
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The Ministry of Reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:18)
By Scott Thomas, Acts 29 Director
August 25, 2009
Some lively discussion has taken place in a Southern Baptist blog regarding our ecclesiology and the giving covenant. Baptist Press (a Southern Baptist Publication) picked up many of the errors of that blog concerning cooperation between Acts 29 churches and Southern Baptist Churches. I have never written a blog that attacks another person or organization and I am not about to start now, but it seems that some clarity is needed.
We are not sure why one denominational publication is obsessed with Acts 29 and continues to publish information without checking with us. It seems odd at best, and agenda driven at worst, to publish information about what Acts 29 believes and ...
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I appreciated the candor from The Upstream Collective blog writing about the Acts 29 Regional in St Louis posted by Caleb on 08/18/09 at 9:02 pm.
Today we attended the Acts 29 Midwest quarterly meeting. It’s basically a get-together of Acts 29 church planters, leaders, and other interested parties. The meeting took place at the Journey in St. Louis. We enjoyed reconnecting with Journey pastor Steve Miller- the last time we saw him he had to leave the Upstream Jet Set trip to Marsaille early due to a stomach bug. He’s better now.
We work with a lot of Acts 29 guys. In fact, we’ve got on on our board of directors- Kevin Jamison, pastor of the Oaks Community Church in Middletown, Ohio. We’ve always appreciated Acts 29 and their ...
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