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Discerning a Call to Church Planting

Posted on April 17, 2017January 28, 2021 by ptsblog
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I’ve often heard successful writers say that you shouldn’t get into writing if you can imagine doing anything else with your life. And, while I never want to limit the wide manifestations of call into one particular rule—as if God speaks to us each in the same language—the way I’ve seen call, both in my…

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Palm Wednesday – How the Church Responds to Violence

Posted on April 7, 2017January 28, 2021 by ptsblog
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I am continually faced with my powerlessness over gun violence and its traumatic effect(s) upon me personally and the community in which I live. This past Wednesday afternoon, my four-year old daughter and I, heard around 10 gunshots as we stood near my bedroom window. This is the second time in two weeks that we…

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3 Ways Seminary Prepared Me for Church Planting

Posted on April 6, 2017January 28, 2021 by ptsblog
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Church planting is a pioneering ministry. Blazing trails. Cutting new paths. Exiting the box of institutional restraints and “the way things are done” to reach new people in new ways with the Gospel. The idealized, going-rogue vision of starting a new worshiping community lends itself to the assumption that institutional structures of the established church…

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