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Pittsburgh mission conference with Alan Hirsch April 8-9

The Mission has a Church

Posted on February 8, 2016January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

“Our task as his people is to discern what God is doing and join with him. It is not so much that the church has a mission but that the mission has a church.” As I read those words from Alan Hirsch’s book, The Permanent Revolution, they stopped me in my tracks. As the senior pastor…

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Getting a Global Perspective

Posted on June 12, 2015January 29, 2021 by ptsblog

“We need to become global Christians with a global vision, for we have a global God.” John R. W. Stott In seasons of discernment students might ask, “What is God’s will for my life?” Not a bad question. I asked this question myself at one point in my journey. But at some point in my…

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