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Before Leaving for the Field, Should Missionaries Do Support Raising…or Support Emptying?

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Pastor Foley

David Fitch just did a post that has me thinking. The post, entitled STOP FUNDING CHURCH PLANTS and Start Funding Missionaries: A Plea to Denominations, is fairly self-explanatory and certainly worth a read in its own right. But one particular … Continue reading →

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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 III: Train Members to be Generalists, not Specialists

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Pastor Foley

Division of labor is such a fact of life today that it’s hard for us to even imagine what it would look like to be a church where every member is called—and trained hard and weekly—to do every ministry task. … Continue reading →

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