(by Mike Kahn, Director of the Tampa Bay Baptist Association) There is a need to train and mobilize over 200,000 Christ–followers in the greater Tampa Bay region to personally and often show and share Jesus with lost people. To accomplish this will require that we offer different evangelism resources for churches to use to trainContinue reading “Evangelism Training Tools”
Category Archives: Evangelism
The Forgotten Ways
Alan Hirsch’s seminal book, The Forgotten Ways (2006, 2016) is a prophetic call to the western church to come back to the movement DNA of the early church. 1. The center must be Jesus and the clear, simple message, “Jesus is Lord.” 2. From the Lordship of Christ, disciple-making naturally grows in obedience to ourContinue reading “The Forgotten Ways”
Gospel Communities
When you see a well organized garden you immediately know several things have contributed to its fruitfulness: careful planning, intentional preparation, well timed planting and continual care. “But those that were sown on the good soil are the ones who hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirtyfold and sixtyfold and a hundredfold.” Mark 4:20Continue reading “Gospel Communities”
Disciplemaking Training
Several pastors gathered at Mission Hill for this training forum on disciplemaking. Paul Purvis kicked things off with a vision to reach the city together and a prophetic call to rethink the way we’ve been doing church for the last few decades. Darin Anderson shared his journey as a pastor in recent years, shifting fromContinue reading “Disciplemaking Training”
Disciplemaking Signposts
As we seek to mobilize multiplying disciplemakers to every part of Tampa Bay, here is a simple roadmap to guide us. These three books have helped our leadership team begin to chart a course that can help all churches and all Christ followers in the region (re)orient our lives around the Great Commission. The MasterContinue reading “Disciplemaking Signposts”
Multiply
Ying Kai grew up in Taiwan, raised by an active evangelist and church planter who started a new church every year for 28 years! For several years Ying replicated his father’s practices and most looking on would have said he was remarkably fruitful. He and his wife, Grace, would lead 40-60 people to Christ everyContinue reading “Multiply”
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