From the category archives:
Did you realize that three fourths of the world are oral communicators by choice.
50% of the adults in the United States are primarily oral communicators.
58% of the USA High school graduates have never read a book after graduating from High School.
42% of college graduates never read another book after graduating from college.
So what do we [...]
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Many of you have asked, so Mark who are these non-traditional churches that you work with? Someone recently sent me the answer.
It’s a combination of cool, relevant, contemporary, and profound, transparent and well…cool.
Check out this video because it articulates it for me.
This may be your church. If it is, then you are my people.
See video.
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Ok – this is the last post on this subject. As some of us looked at issues the next leaders of the SBC should consider, here are the final thoughts I will share. I’m ready to move on to other topics.
Having spent the last couple of years examining non-traditional SBC churches in our midst, my [...]
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This post is a continuation of an exercise in which students articulated some decisions that future leaders of the SBC might want to consider -not that seminary students know anything. In this post, let’s look realistically at the most sacred and successful mission giving plan of the last century. A question is, why is [...]
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I’m involved in a seminary PhD course in which students have been bouncing around ideas regarding the kind of bold leadership that our next three agency heads need to take. It’s easy to make a disclaimer on ideas that come out of a class of a bunch of seminary students, so if these are too [...]
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Here’s a local news report about two churches, FedEx Pilots, and a motorcycle club who are making a difference in an under-served community in Memphis. As Easter approaches, it is a good idea to ask if our lives reflect Christ who died and rose for us. While the following article is from a secular news [...]
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A study shows that Muslims typically encounter Christian influence (a person, a Bible truth, an answered prayer, a dream, a need met) 36 or more times before choosing Christ. Which of those encounters might you and I make? How can we be effective “links in the chain?”
Ministry to Muslims is not new. Recognizing the sacrificial [...]
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I love the commercial where the teenager tells his over-the-hill dad to lay off the updates on twitter. Of course that happens as his dad tweets…”Now I’m sitting on the couch listening…”
Yes I tweet – have a facebook page…am linkedin, etc., etc.
But isn’t this just a fad? Won’t we all just fall back onto Email [...]
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The Southern Baptist Convention met this week and for the first time that I can recall in a number of years closing ranks is not what will be the most reported issue that hits the media. Someone said about our convention that its like a large family reunion where there’s always some crazy aunt or [...]
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Web/Graphics Designer Or Admin Assistant
If you are a college student and are interested in working part-time paid with the IMB’s Emerging Leaders Team (under Mark Morris’ supervision) and minister part-time unpaid in a multi-cultural church and/or innercity ministry (under Pastor Kelvin Bowen’s supervision) then jump on this opportunity. See these two different opportunities below.
1, Administrative [...]
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LL Project: Happy Dance from Last Letter on Vimeo.
