Bishop Elders Team Bi-Weekly Email Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles “Full-Brained Discipleship” I grew up in a left-brained discipleship culture. As a child and young adult, I was blessed to sit under gifted pastors who faithfully taught the Word of God. They emphasized beliefs, doctrine, and doing it right. Their love for God, His Word, and His people came through clearly to me, but the emphasis… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Biweekly Email – Carta quincenal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles “Don’t Scare the Fish . . .” Earlier this year, while I was leading another “Learning Journey” group to southern Bulgaria, we as a team were having a conversation with Hari, our Bulgarian host, about the way God has led him to be a witness in the Muslim villages where he serves and loves the people.… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email – Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al español después de la de Ingles All Things Are Possible with The Lord One Thursday evening in 2000, two new Vietnamese student believers came to our door with a young Vietnamese couple, whom they have just met that same day at a grocery store. The two young men had been at our house a week before for dinner, and now they wanted… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email – Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Do you need permission to multiply? Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles I recently had a conversation with a colleague who asked the question; “do we need permission to multiply churches?”. Those of us who are Apostolic, Evangelistic or Prophetic (fondly referred to as APE’s), identified in Ephesians 4, are often driven by a mission impulse to go and do something new. … Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email – Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Bishop Elders TeamWeekly Email for Monday, June 12, 2023Submitted by Bishop Tuyen Nguyen The Missional DNA Radix training reminds me of the natural DNA that I received from my grandfather, who basically devoted his life and his family to do one thing: to bring Good News to people. In Genesis the Lord God said about Abraham: “Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation,… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email – Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles Bishop Elder’s Team – Weekly Letter June 5, 2023 MARGIN We live in an ever-increasingly fast-paced world. We have all kinds of resources to make us more “efficient”. These resources can be a blessing and can be used to build the kingdom, but they can also drive us to try to “do more” than we are… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email – Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles Bishop Elders TeamWeekly EmailMay 30, 2023Submitted by Marcia Mylin In Ruth Haley Barton’s book, Invitation to Solitude and Silence, Barton uses the illustration of a jar of muddy river water to illustrate our busy lives. She talks about how our lives can get cloudy and dirty by the stuff of life and it can become difficult for leaders… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email – Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles Bishop Elders TeamWeekly Email for May 22Submitted by Bishop Rodney Martin I recently was in a conversation with another bishop who mentioned that they likened LMC’s current liminality to the journey of Abram. LMC is in this time of deep change. We know the mission; “To be a Spirit-led movement”. But we do not know what this will look like. God called Abram to… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email-Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles Bishop Elders TeamWeekly email for May 15thBy Bishop Tuyen Nguyentuyennguyen4mail@gmail.com Today, as I was preparing to teach a Bible class for Vietnam, I came across Romans 1: 20-21 – “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse,… Read More
Bishop Elders Team Weekly Email-Carta Semanal del Equipo de Obispos Ancianos Esta carta está traducida al Español después de la de Ingles “The Invitation . . . Just Follow . . . Always More” As I reflect back on the Celebration of Church Life – CCL weekend,March 31 – April 1 there is a warm stirring in my heart; a sense of God’s smile and God’s favor upon us as a fellowship of Anabaptist Churches. The truth is that anything… Read More