At the recent Advance the Church Conference in Raleigh, NC, I sat down to talk with Acts 29 Pastor Elliot Grudem about things he knows well-his book, his dad (Wayne Grudem who wrote, Systematic Theology, a benchmark work for our tribe) and his experience in replanting a church. ...
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Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29 and Jean Dorlus, President of Step Seminary in Haiti. They met to talk about church planting strategies in Haiti.
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The first-ever Acts 29 Church Planting Conference in Brazil was held in Rio de Janeiro on May 17-19, 2010. Men from over eight states in Brazil as well as from Chile participated in the International bootcamp, entitled “Foundations of Church Planting.” The conference was co-sponsored by Restore Brazil (V360), Tempo de Colheita, and Escola Teologica Reformada. Pastors Chan Kilgore, Gregg Heinsch, Adam Sinnett and Jay Bauman gave the presentations on the foundational elements of church planting. All the bootcamp’s manual and theological material was carefully translated to Portuguese by a professional translator. Antonio Carlos Costa, a movement leader in Brazil, spoke of the relationship between social justice & the gospel. Antonio recently ...
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By Scott Thomas, President of Acts 29 The number one reason men do not pass the application and assessment phase for membership into Acts 29 Network is that we do not observe that they have a clear understanding of basic theological concepts. Acts 29 does not require a seminary degree to apply nor do we believe a seminary degree unequivocally equips one in theology. We want our planters to be robust in their theology and possess clarity. We also want them to be able to make practical application from it. Our theology concomitantly informs everything we believe and everything we do. As we examine movements of God, David Garrison said that every movement possesses biblical authority as one of its characteristics.* Ed Stetzer argued that a movement has theological integrity. ** Dr. ...
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Advance & Retreat of the Church Over a century ago, Church historian Kenneth Latourette (1884-1963), pointed out that the church’s history is one of advance and retreat, advance and retreat. This oscillating influence over the centuries has resulted in various, new expressions of the Christian faith across time and cultures. It is exciting to witness these current expressions of the gospel in Africa and Asia. The Incomplete Glory of God These new expressions of Christian faith, in the advance of the church, are an expansion of God’s glory. But how can a glory that is infinite be expand? Isn’t God’s glory un-expandable and complete? Not according to Jonathan Edwards, who writes: God looks on the communication of himself, and the emanation of the ...
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