Darrin Patrick is Vice President of the Acts 29 Network. His book, Church Planter, is available for pre-order now, and is the basis for our National Boot Camp in Seattle next month.
Boot Camps are a time and place to not only get solid teaching, but to really connect with like-minded people. Here Darrin recounts his first steps into the Network and his own Acts 29 Boot Camp experience nearly ten years ago:
In 2001, I heard about this crazy new network that was helping urban church planters.
I had recently parachuted into St. Louis with Amie and our baby to plant The Journey Church. While I’d raised all the financial support we needed, we lacked any relational support from our denomination. We were new, had no friends, and had no like-minded ...
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My friend Yancey has written an accesible book for men of John Owen's treatise of sin. Men either want to deal with sin by tapping into white-knuckle disciplines (because it's manly) or by excusing sin altogether because all men deal with certain sins. Neither attempt to defeat our formidable sins has any success. Yancey (and Owen) will help guide men to stop trying to defeat our sins on our own and start tapping into the gospel's power over sin.
Order multiple copies and give them away.
- Scott Thomas, President, Acts 29 Network
About the AuthorYancey is the Teaching Pastor at Clear Creek Community Church in League City, Texas, a suburb of Houston, where he has served since 1998. He is a husband to Jennefer and father to three sons; Thatcher, Haddon and Beckett. A native ...
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We Fear of Peoples’ Opinions
Fifth, Ambassadors who grow fearful of people can start changing the message and misrepresenting the King. There is a reason why the saying “don’t shoot the messenger” has become a bit proverbial. Messengers do get shot you know. Throughout the ages Jesus and his gospel have been polarizing eliciting joy and wonder as well as ridicule and guile. When people mock you as a messenger or disregard the message you preach will you adjust the gospel to tickle the ears of this world? (2 Timothy 4:1-5) Will you continue to reach out to others and share the gospel? If you give way to fear, you will go AWOL. Jesus told us that all authority on heaven and on earth have been given to him and that we ...
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By, Reid S. Monaghan
One of my favorite passages in Scripture comes at the close of the fifth chapter of 2 Corinthians. It highlights both God’s transformative work in our lives and his missional calling on us in the world.
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ...
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This spring we are hosting two church-planting boot camps - one in Raleigh, North Carolina, and one in Denver, Colorado. We hope you will consider joining us for one - boot camps are open to anyone, and required for those who wish to become a member of Acts 29. They are always well-attended by Acts 29 members at all stages of church planting - so you can network with church planters and ask real questions of real people.
What are other reasons you might want to attend a boot camp rather than listen to teachings online later? Try any of these reasons from Scott Thomas.
Below are quick snapshots of what to expect from the Raleigh and Denver boot camps coming up:
Raleigh Boot Camp - April 26-28, 2010!
See full schedule and register for the Raleigh, NC Boot Camp
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