Students learn about missions during spring break – the Salt Company Iowa City
In March, 19 students were sent from The Iowa City Salt Company to Minneapolis for a City Training Trip. While there, students were exposed to various cultures and religions. The day started with a guided tour of a Hindu Temple. Learning about how this religion...
Over Professionalizing What Should be the Common Practice of Evangelism
Evangelism should never leave the realm of the non-professionals By Ed Stetzer I don’t watch much in sports, but once I dreamed of being a professional baseball player. My father used to take me to Yankees games. I was already playing little leagure, and I saw my...
Discipleship and Small Groups: Four Commitments
By Chris McRae, BCI Discipleship Team Leader The church has often fallen for the temptation of trying to mass produce Christians. This has rightly drawn censure from those around us. Such a strategy has never, and will never result in the consistent reproduction of...
Harvest Apologetics Training Center Hosts Upcoming 3-Session Course
One of the most common statements made by believers in the American church is "I want to share my faith but I do not feel equipped to do so." This is unfortunate but so often true. God tells us in 1 Peter 3:15 to always be prepared to give a defense for the Gospel. ...
3 Tips for Reaching the Dechurched
Every church should be thinking about how to reach the dechurched By Ed Stetzer It is becoming increasingly important for the church to talk about reaching the dechurched in their communities. This sounds like a great idea in theory, but it presents a real challenge...
Send Conference 2017
Send Conference returns in 2017 at three new venues–Southern California (Feb. 3-4), Dallas (May 19-20) and Orlando (July 25-26). Each location offers insights and challenges that will benefit you and every member of your church. All three locales will feature...
The next generation, the heart of the Salt Company – Ames
By Sam Battaglieri The heart and drive of the Salt Company of Cornerstone Church is the next generation. The Salt Company is focused on reaching, teaching, and equipping college students, preparing them for a life-long walk with Christ alongside a local church and...
ANALYSIS: Missions, evangelism, service & risk in SBC DNA
by Roger S. Oldham NASHVILLE (BP) -- It used to be heard everywhere, whether at Southern Baptist Convention annual meetings, pastors' conferences, evangelism rallies, training events, or other venues where Baptists gathered during the latter half of the 20th century...
FIRST-PERSON: Do the work of an evangelist
by Jason K. Allen, president of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary KANSAS CITY, Mo. (BP) -- Gospel ministers, myself included, tend to identify most readily with the apostle Paul’s exhortation to “preach the Word” in his parting words to his understudy Timothy....
LifeSpring Church, Bellevue NE: Keeping missions in the forefront
by Karen L. Willoughby BELLEVUE, Neb. (BP) -- LifeSpring Church in Bellevue, Neb., where 1,200 or more people participate in weekly worship, helps defend America. More than half the congregation is active-duty or retired military, or employed as civilians at Offutt...
