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Partnership: Your Personal Journey
16 Questions for Evaluating Media Ministry
Phill Butler, founder of visionSynergy, wrote an article for the Lausanne Media Engagement Network that outlines 16 questions for evaluating media ministry. While it may be tempting to avoid evaluation, we know it is vital if we are to be truly effective. Here...
Media Ministries: Developing A Common Vocabulary And Strengthening Spiritual Impact
In 2003 the newly formed Paul Allen Brain Institute in Seattle, Washington found that there were dozens of other centers working on brain research. The major problem? These centers could not collaborate effectively. The reason? There was no standard vocabulary...
Reflections on Media Strategies for Evangelism & Local Church Development: Potential Implications for Software Follow-Up Platforms
Disclaimer: This paper can only briefly touch on highly complex issues – to explain and understand much less agree on would take considerably greater time and space! If what is being suggested here could have easily been done it would have been. Its very complexity...
Media & Interpersonal Communications: Reflections on the “New Media” and a Relational Gospel
The Good News is a highly personal Gospel. This brief article suggests, whether for evangelism or discipleship, there is value in considering the nature and potentials of the communications media we use. I only seek to encourage you and your colleagues’ thoughtful...
Energizing Church Growth In a Hostile Context: The Intersection of Media and Local Fellowships
I have been privileged to work in Christian media projects globally. What I cover in this brief article is essentially applicable in any area fundamentally hostile to the Christian message such as Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, China, etc. My particular interest has been...
Inclusion and Exclusion – Who’s In and Who’s Out?
Introduction I believe that a fresh reading of Scripture points to some startling questions—frequently enigmatic issues—particularly for believers in the West and in those places where Western thinking has gained influence. Calling at once for commitment to truth and...
Prayer, Evangelization and Kingdom Cooperation
Background/Context For many years, with colleagues around the world, I have worked to bring God's people into whole, collaborative relationships. These initiatives have consistently sought to empower effective evangelization, development of national church planting...
The Power of Partnership: Transformation & Hope
God comes to us in these days as a Father -- bringing His family access to freedom, reconciliation, salvation, and hope. Hope not just for eternity but hope for a changed life, changed relationships, changed communities, changed society, and a changed witness -- now!...
Effective Church Planting is Partnership
The history of the Church is replete with the stories of heroic individuals who, against all odds and with little apparent human support, engaged in evangelistic efforts which resulted in the launching of a thriving, sometimes lasting Church. Yett, the real Biblical...
Relationships: Wholeness, Unity, Diversity and Partnerships
Essential Idea God designed men and women to live in harmony, in open, healthy relationships -- whether in families or communities. God's design is based on His own nature. Adam and Eve's tragic decision in Genesis destroyed transparency, trust, unity, and beauty...