Just one more post on Luke before we move on to tracking the amazing advance of the world Christian movement – beyond Acts chapter 28! I really do love this guy – I very much appreciate the fact that Luke wrote the Book of Acts. Luke, it seems, saw something of the wider, global scope of […]
Month: October 2021
Mobilizers – Preparing People for Eternity (Pt 2)
No, I’m not saying that works saves us – only grace can do that. (Eph 2:8) Works, however, is what we are saved for. In fact, these precious works have been prepared in advance for us to do! (Eph 2:2-10) These ‘works’ relate directly or indirectly to the completion of the Great Commission – this commission must […]
Mobilizers – Preparing a People for Eternity
This age is as much about the perfecting of the Church as it is about making disciples of all nations! An idea we, Mobilizers, often neglect at our peril! These two great themes run like parallel tracks throughout scripture! God taking out of the world a people for His name (Ac 15: 13-18) and God […]
Luke’s Sequel – The Book of Acts!
We are following the theme, ‘Christianity as a movement’ and looking at the Biblical basis for this! In continuing to develop this theme, we now turn our attention back to Luke. We ask the question, why did Luke write the Book of Acts? Why didn’t he leave it for Matthew, Mark or John to write? They […]
The Mobilizer’s Highest Calling
How do we equate ‘success’ in mission mobilization? Well, I think for most of us, it is what we have managed to get people to do for mission that would determine success. I would like to suggest that this is far below what a true mobilizer/prophet is ‘called’ to do! The best example of a […]
Jesus, a ‘Movement Messiah’
In my previous blog, I suggested that Luke, the writer of the Book of Acts, was very selective with whose ministry he chose to record in his narrative. He focused on ‘movement’ figures or ‘regions beyond’ figures! From where did Luke get this idea? In Luke’s first book, the Gospel of Luke, he said he had […]
Mobilizing – A Valid Biblical Ministry
Have you ever felt a little embarrassed when asked what your ministry is? Your lower voice and mutter out of the side of your mouth, “mobilizer”! I think this embarrassment is widespread among mobilizers! Mainly because a scan through a concordance doesn’t pick it up! Is our ministry truly Biblical or are we ‘para-church’ with no real […]
Christianity as a ‘Movement’
Christianity was always intended by God to be a ‘movement’ – spreading out in ever widening circles from Jerusalem to Judah then into Samaria and continuing throughout the whole earth! Christianity was always intended by God to be a ‘movement’ – spreading out in ever widening circles from Jerusalem to Judah then into Samaria and continuing throughout […]
The Difference Between Apostles and Prophets
The best book I have read on Apostles was written by Dr. Larry Caldwell entitled ‘Sent Out.’ In his book, Dr. Caldwell, in a scholarly fashion, connects the ministry of Apostles with those who advance the gospel into frontier regions where Christ is not yet named! Missionaries planting churches among unreached peoples have the most legitimate claim to […]
A Local Church Paul Might be Proud Of
Most Christians are connected with a local church or, at the least, most would have experienced their informative days as a Christian, in a local church – believers in the non-western world even more so as they place very high value on community. The local church and what they learn from their association with the local church contributes […]