In our last two posts, we’ve defined what the “apostolic” is, and 5 essential elements of an apostolic leader. An apostolic leader needs to have all 5 elements of big vision, risking faith, foundation setting, leader developer, and surrender to God. If you can find a clearly apostolically gifted, mature, national believer to partner with, […]
In this series, we’ve explored spiritual gifts and their importance in missions, in the field context, and on missions teams. In the preceding post, we dove into the word ‘apostolic,’ what it means, and why it’s important for movements. In this post we will get more practical with the 5 essential elements of an apostolic […]
In the last few posts, we’ve given a broad overview on why spiritual gifts are important for the mission field and how they can apply to the field context and on missions teams. In this post, we’ll try to address the term ‘apostolic’ and the critical role this concept plays in catalyzing movements among the […]
“Effective leaders increasingly perceive their ministries in terms of a lifetime perspective.“ The Making of a Leader by J. Robert Clinton helps spiritual leaders understand God’s process of developing them over a course of a lifetime. Clinton draws principles from the lives of Biblical and ministry leaders in history, breaking each leaders’ journey into 5 […]
Our first year on the field we established a rhythm of monthly team fellowships. At these fellowship times that Steven and I led, we ate together, worshipped together, and did a quick Bible study. Usually people stuck around afterwards to play board games. Seems simple enough, right? Except that everybody had a problem with team […]
In our previous post, we covered a simple definition of spiritual gifts and some key points about gifts. In this post, we’ll explore why using spiritual gifts is critical on the missions field. As we’ve mentioned in our spiritual warfare posts, our encounters with spiritual warfare during our first short-term trip to Thailand opened our […]
You cannot do a supernatural work without supernatural power. This is one of the lessons that God has impressed on our hearts over the last decade of ministry on the field. Scripture tells us that apart from abiding in Christ we can do nothing, but our pride, our selves still default to being self-dependent in […]
Before we launched, Jenn and I were in pre-engagement counseling and we took a stress test as a way to gauge different stressors and how we responded to them. Our counselor came back and said, “Steven, you scored the lowest stress we’ve ever seen on this test. You have like no stress at all.” I […]
My grandparents ran a wholesale grocery in Venezuela that my dad worked at during his college years. So it’s part of his heritage to go and visit a grocery store in whatever new country or city he visits. With us living in Thailand, he’s almost as excited about the bounty of fruit as he is […]
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Listening Prayer (Part 2)
In Listening Prayer (Part 1), we looked at some biblical examples of God speaking and communicating, as well as different ways we can hear his voice. In this post we’ll share some more practical activities that you can use to practice listening, as well as address how we can discern if it really is God’s […]