The last few days have led me to meet a couple of guys with similar thoughts on contextualizing ministry and reaching people with the gospel. Two of them are JR and Sean.
JR is a church planter in Manhattan who is planting Manhattan Christian Church. He and his wife are a great coule from just outside of Dallas. JR is being sent out by Life Pointe Church where JR served as a teaching Pastor. In talking with him he seems to be a great guy with a similar laid-back approach to things that don't matter and an aggressive approach with the things that do. I enjoyed meeting him and hope to get the opportunity to visit him in the big apple in the fall or early winter (after Caleb arrives). Check out JR's blog. NYC is a world mission field so if your group is looking for a mission opportunity I would encourage you to contact JR.
Another guy I met this week was Sean. Sean is from Tucson, AZ and is the founding and Lead Pastor of Crossing Church.
Sean is equally contextualized in his ministry. He serves as a Biking and Hiking guide as a part-time job in order to get to know others in his community and offset some expenses incurred during the planting process. Sean is looking to become a Church Planting Strategist for his area of the state and he introduced me to New Church Initiatives, a church planting resource that seems to do a good job of assisting a potential planter for work in the field. I have not yet experimented with it but it seems (according to what I picked up from Sean) to be a great program.
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