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In case you didn't get the memo, the new content for this blog has been moved to two places: a blog site: World Christians for general posts on missional living and more specific posts for Cornerstone church on a Facebook Page

Here are some recent posts:

Funding missionaries, bad reason #7c: They have an unsound strategy: Business as Mission

November 23, 2011EditLeave a comment

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I have found that focusing on the church is a key way to get at the soundness of a ministry strategy. My foundational belief is that the church should be the center of evangelism, discipleship, meeting human needs, and ultimately, any missionary task.

Here is what I mean:

Strategy #4: Business as Mission

Missionary: Local believers know about church, but they don’t know how to be godly employers or employees. I’m going to start a business to show how a believer interacts with employees and in the “marketplace.”

Me: How will that start or build churches? 

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Seminar in India

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Conducted a seminar for 20 pastors in India that taught on three levels:

1) Taught Titus (a pastoral letter from Paul) to pastors... camped out in 1:5-9, the qualifications of elders.
2) Taught principles of how to interpret the scripture to the pastors so that their teaching and interpretation stills will improve
3) Taught how to teach the seminar to my translator who is an overseer to the group of 20 pastors

It is fine to be a doer or a teacher as a cross cultureral worker; but we should always consider ways to be a trainer of trainers.  We need to resist the temptation to create dependancy on our teaching skills and instead train trainers so that we are not needed at all... then move on to a new location.