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Minnesota Group - impacting Kansas City

2008-06-30T09:27:00.000-07:00

They came from the north . . . They spent a week ready to combat social injustice . . . They did!

Recently we hosted a group consisting of three churches from Fosston, Breckenridge and Montevideo, Minnesota here in Kansas City - the target: combatting social injustice issues with the true gospel of Jesus. Looking past the categories of skin color, socioeconomic structure, lifestyle or religious/spiritual legacy - this group arrived in Kansas City to vindicate.

Over the next seven days, this group, having the opportunity to engage the homeless in personal interaction, erected interactive structures, prayer-walking affluent areas, handed out water bottles at a pro sports arena (sprint center), times of teaching/training and spiritual growth, serving shelter groups, receiving prophetic insight and environmental clean-up - left our city of 2.1 million with a true impression of the real gospel of Jesus.

gospel-driven ministry

2008-04-01T11:18:00.000-07:00

Leaders remember . . . it's all about Jesus, period. There are christian leaders today who have slid away from a gospel-driven ministry, and placed the 'church', those believers and attenders inside the local body, into a comfortable christianity. Closing their doors on unbelievers and those of other gospels, building relationships only with those who attend their church, sharing life & latte's within a small circle, and allowing the pastor to fulfill his role by doing most if not all of the work of ministy.

Leaders, we have been commissioned and gifted to live out the life of Jesus - sharing the true 'Jesus stuff' with a gospel-starved, desperately-seeking and needy world; and this applys to those outside the church too. There are so many in our cities "who like Jesus, but not those in the church" (grabbed this one from Dan Kimball). Stick to the stuff by giving Jesus to those around you, and equipping your members to do the same.

ready to help

2008-03-27T13:09:00.000-07:00

I am determined to help do my part and make a difference in the christian community. True followers of Jesus in our emerging generations need to develop a theological understanding of the truth.

My heart is hurting at what I've noticed from watching other people, who profess that Jesus is God, Savior and Lord over their life, then how they react and respond to those whose life is committed to that of a different gospel, another Jesus.

Followers of Jesus do not possess the type of knowledge of the Bible they confess, thus making their apologetic almost exstinct.

I am asking for theological-googlemonsters to help with this project.