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About Pastor Foley

The Reverend Dr. Eric Foley is CEO and Co-Founder, with his wife Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, supporting the work of persecuted Christians in North Korea and around the world and spreading their discipleship practices worldwide. He is the former International Ambassador for the International Christian Association, the global fellowship of Voice of the Martyrs sister ministries. Pastor Foley is a much sought after speaker, analyst, and project consultant on the North Korean underground church, North Korean defectors, and underground church discipleship. He and Dr. Foley oversee a far-flung staff across Asia that is working to help North Koreans and Christians everywhere grow to fullness in Christ. He earned the Doctor of Management at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio.

How to Start a Lay Church, Principle VII: Commit to the Inseparability of Hearing and Doing the Word

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Pastor Foley

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them,” says Jesus in Matthew 7:24-25, “will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds … Continue reading →

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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle VI: Train People to Become Living Bibles

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Pastor Foley

Make sure the Bible is inside the Christians in your lay church, not tucked under one arm. Meaning: Materials are for internalizing. They’re not intended as permanent prosthetics. From the very beginning of their faith life and continuing steadily throughout … Continue reading →

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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle V: Meet in Places that You Already Use

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Pastor Foley

Don’t rent or buy a building for your lay church. For a number of reasons that will be especially apparent long about Principle 12, no lay church should be gobbling up lots of people anyway. If it does, it will … Continue reading →

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