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Simple Church Planting Movements In The West

Ever wonder why simple churches multiply like crazy in places like China, the Middle East, and South America, but not here in the United States and Europe?  So do I.  This is a questions we must answer in our day in order to truly reach this nation and some of the harder nations of the Earth.

That’s why I was thrilled when Floyd McClung, veteran missionary and current leader of a church planting movement in South Africa, took some time to post his thoughts on the subject.  Floyd is responding to a frustrated simple church-planter and gives some great advice to help us focus our efforts here in the West.  You can check out his thoughts here.

The Kingdom Flu

It’s time for another installment of “Blogs I Wish I Wrote.”  Today’s featured blog comes from Mark at Godgrown.  I’ve been following Mark for awhile now and I really appreciate a lot of what he writes.  There have been a couple of times where he has taken some topic that has gripped the national headlines and turned it on it’s head in a way that causes me to understand the Gospel or the Kingdom in a new light.  In a way it’s quite a bit like how Jesus would use parables in his day to convey divine truth and Mark is pretty good at it.  Previously I’ve seen him take the Federal Bailout that recently happened and use it to communicate God’s heart to “bail us out” of our sin.

Today, however, Mark looks at how the church is supposed to possess a message that spreads much like the Swine Flu, and he calls it the Kingdom Flu.  Mark not only gives us a good picture for how the message of the Gospel is supposed to spread, but delves into why it’s not and what it would look like if it did.  I’m a little jealous of what Jesus taught through Mark today, so it goes on the list of “Blogs I Wish I Wrote.”  You can read it here.

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