“[Your people are] capable, because the power that raised Jesus Christ is sitting in that single mom. The power that raised Jesus Christ is sitting in that young married couple. The power that raised Jesus Christ is sitting in that 60-year-old guy who’s wasted his life making money for himself. You need to find a way to release that…"
Matt Carter is Acts 29 pastor of The Austin Stone Community Church in Austin, Texas.
Matt remembers childhood observations of his parents' practice of Christianity: attending church services, serving in the nursery or greeting occasionally, and doing a few bible studies. "And that was pretty much it," he notes.
He says that young people today are not content with simply partaking in "the attractional church" wherein ...
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Mission and Vision:
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1. Our first mandate is the Great Commission
Our vision is to have 1000 churches with an average of 250 people each. That would be a quarter of a million people worshipping Jesus in A29 affiliated churches. This could be accomplished in under 7 years.
2. Church: what is it?
(from Vintage Church) "The local church is a community of regenerated believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord. In obedience to scripture, they organize under qualified leadership, gather regularly for preaching and worship, observe the biblical sacraments of baptism & communion, are unified by the Spirit, are disciplined for holiness, scattered to fulfill the Great Commandment and the Great Commission as missionaries to the world for ...
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I just received The Prodigal God by Tim Keller in the mail today. Tim has not written too many published books and when we get one, it is a gem. This one is no exception. Tim is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Reason for God. Newsweek called Tim Keller a "C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century."
Tim is the senior pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian in New York City and is actively involved in missional church planting in the major urban areas of the world. We co-hosted a conference on urban church planting with Redeemer last April. Tim is respected as a missiologist among young church planters, particularly the young, reformed, theologically astute planters in the city.
Tim succinctly addressed the problems of the contemporary church in his newest book.
"Jesus' ...
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