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GCR, baptism, missiology: What is the Great Commission without Church Planting?

Posted on May 7, 2010 by

Much more than just making converts, we are to be making disciples, and those disciples are to form into to churches in order to best fulfill the purposes of God and best bring glory to God. Continue reading →

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Immediate Immersion: the Acts, the New Testament & the Early Church On When to Baptize (Acts 2)

Posted on September 18, 2009 by

The issue for the church in discipling new believers is following the principle of baptism: a test of true faith as the new believer’s first step of obedient love for Christ. Discipleship is the fruit of salvation, and the way of those that are saved. Baptism is the first step of discipleship, according to the practice/method of the early church throughout Acts. Continue reading →

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God’s Outsourcing: “Sheepsourcing”

Posted on June 19, 2009 by

God’s work in his kingdom is done through the Holy Spirit empowerment of his sheep, his children, his disciples, for his work: an inspired coop of outsourcing, not an outsourcing without personality, without compassion, without love. Continue reading →

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