church in the world

Global Diaspora Network

Published by PaulsDz on April 19, 2013

Amazingly 1 billion people are living outside the country of their birth. There are only 7 billion on the planet. I don’t want to discuss the politics of this (right now 🙂) but it is amazing what this means for starting churches and for helping people become followers of Jesus. In the video below notice some incredible stuff: There are… Read more →

Spreading a great idea

Published by PaulsDz on May 4, 2012 | 1 Response

An idea is the most contagious thing. Jan Wessele and I talked to leaders at the Western Europe Call to All conference this month. Together we encouraged a personalized evaluation of ministry in Europe. We showed how ministry to the Last, Least, and Lost can be used to diagnose the ministries we do. It shows if we are working mainly… Read more →

New way to Diagnose European Spiritual Need

Published by PaulsDz on April 14, 2012

The European spiritual landscape is as diverse as its cities and populations. The gospel of Christ may be simple and straight forward but the context into which we want to bring the gospel is complex spiritually, physically and socially. The complexity of this landscape highlights the need for a robust framework for understanding it. The 3L framework described in the… Read more →

Truthful society

Published by PaulsDz on December 8, 2011

I found something to be really quite interesting in a book called “Truth and Transformation: A Manifesto for Ailing Nations” by Vishal Mangalwadi. obviously the the book is trying to talk about nations and society. He makes his comments, that I find so interesting, on the heels of discussing knowledge and how knowledge and the Bible are key to building… Read more →

Legislating Christianity

Published by PaulsDz on October 21, 2011

I am reading a couple of books right now. Today I spent time in Steve Monsma’s Healing For a Broken World: Christian Perspective on Public Policy. I appreciate his clear thinking. My favorite quote from the book today is: I believe we Christians ought to be as concerned for the religious freedom of our Jewish or Muslim neighbors and for… Read more →

This testimony from the Lausanne Congress on world evangelism about human trafficking moved me to tears.

http://conversation.lausanne.org/uploads/networks/images/2/player.swf . ∞

State of Christianity (Evangelical)

Published by PaulsDz on February 15, 2010

This is a great video on the global statistics on Christianity (Evangelical) done by Intervarsity. Nicely done. It was presented at the Urbana conference. Here is where you can get more videos from the Urban2009 conference. I put evangelical in parenthesis since although they do not say specifically that they are talking about evangelicals the statistics do express that. I’m evangelical… Read more →

6 Parts on How to Handle Attack in the Ministry

Published by PaulsDz on February 6, 2010

Here is one way to handle attacks in the ministry. This presentation was made from Bob Roberts post here. This is a fun program. It is interactive so you can click on arrows and the like or just advance by using your arrow keys on your keyboard. I am planning to improve the presentation but here it is for now…. Read more →

New church in Italy, Alatri

Published by PaulsDz on March 11, 2009

A new church has been started in Alatri, Italy. Apparently the Italian church planter, Luciano, looked at this map and saw the need for a church in his area. He says, “One day while surfing between various sites on the net, I ran into ‘Mission For You.’ I was shocked to the core to discover the situation of the churches… Read more →

Missions in Europe