In the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 28, verses 19-20, Jesus gives a final command to his followers: Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy...
Great Commission
Friday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Jentezen is worried about the radical left controlling churches: California’s Governor just banned singing/chanting at church. Catholics can’t recite mass; Evangelicals can’t worship out loud. The very definition of discrimination is to allow thousands...
Three Sundays in April (Part 4)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOxuBs5sR_s&w=560&h=315] If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? This is how I started our short series titled “Three Sundays in April.” On April 19, 2020, the...
Some Historical Context on the Death of John Allen Chau
Over at The Conversion, historian Bill Svelmoe, a historian of evangelical missions, offers some historical context to help understand the faith of John Allen Chau, the missionary killed last month by the native people of North Sentinel Island. Here is a taste...
I Found Common Ground with Darryl Hart for the Second Time This Year!!!
This is the second time this year that Darryl Hart has agreed with something I wrote. :-)(The first time was here). Here is a taste of his recent post at Old Life: Glad to see John Fea stand up for evangelism (in...
A Historian of Missions on the Death of John Allen Chau
When I was a student studying church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I read Ruth Tucker‘s book From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya: A Biographical History of Christian Missions. Tucker was teaching in some capacity...
What is the Great Commission?
Yesterday I did a post on John Allen Chau, the missionary killed at the hands of an indigenous tribe on the island of New Sentinel off the coast of India. You can read it here. It is hard to gauge...
Thoughts on the Death of John Allen Chau
What should we make of the death of a twenty-seven-year-old missionary at the hands of an indigenous tribe on North Sentinel Island off the coast of India? On Sunday we published Kate Carte’s twitterstorm on the subject. Yesterday I linked...
This Explains a Lot
According to Barna, 51% of churchgoers have never heard of the Great Commission. Here is a taste of Barna’s research: In partnership with Seed Company, Barna conducted a study of the U.S. Church’s ideas about missions, social justice, Bible translation...