http://www.kirkseyboy.com Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:46:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here is a great post about how missionaries can better communicate with the churches that support them: http://churchplantpastor.org/2010/07/20/missionaries-help-us-help-you/ http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=595 John Piper has a great new video where he confronts the false gospel called the Prosperity Gospel that is being taught by many speakers today. We need to be ready for suffering because all Christians will experience suffering in this life. http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=594 Dr. Sills, one of the missions professors here at Southern, has started a new missions sending agency. Here is a blurb from his latest blog post about the new ministry: Reaching & Teaching has a God-sized vision: All of God’s people going into all the world faithfully obeying all of ... http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=592 Classical proofs for the existence of God do not actually demonstrate his existence because belief in God is properly basic, not based on any reasoning or evidence. This proposition will be substantiated by providing a basic overview of the classical proofs for the existence of God and demonstrating why they ... http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=589 Christian colleges and universities are doing a good job of distinguishing themselves from their secular counterparts by teaching from a Christian perspective. Why are they succeeding? Because they have a firm base to market to. According to USA Today: "Given the relatively strong religious character of much of the U.S. population, ... http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=588 A C4 contextualized Christ centered community uses insider language and biblically permissible cultural and Islamic forms, ritual and ceremonies. This is similar to C3 but believers are allowed to pray with Muslim prayer forms, chant using the Scriptures and fast with their neighbors. C4 churches are an insider movement, they ... http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=587 The C1to C6 contextualization spectrum was developed as a tool for defining six types of “Christ centered communities” commonly found in the Muslim world. The article was published in Evangelical Missions Quarterly in October 1998. John Travis wrote the article to describe what he found happening in the Muslim world. ... http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=586 The Prosperity Gospel from The Global Conversation on Vimeo. http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=585 A great book is getting ready to be released this spring and 9Marks Blog has written up a great review about it: http://blog.9marks.org/2009/10/contextualization-euphemism-for-homogeneous-unit-principle.html http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=584 http://www.kirkseyboy.com/?p=583