Tag: John Piper

• Reimagining Church: From Consumer Christians to Catalytic Called-Ones

  

  The Asian Roughrider reflects on his 15 years abroad before reconnecting with U.S. churches, questioning their need for transformation. He highlights the critiques from Soong-Chan Rah on consumer Christianity and JR Woodward’s focus on active discipleship. Ultimately, he encourages a return to Scripture and genuine community engagement to fulfill God’s mission.

  The Asian Rough Rider

  December 9, 2024

  Asian Faith, Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  called out, church, church multiplication movement, consumerism, culture, disciple making, ekklesia, ethnicity, Faith, God’s glory, Gospel, Jesus Christ, John Piper, Kingdom of God, meta-narrative, mission, Missional, movements, prosperity, race, White Evangelicalism

• How to Love White Evangelicals

  

  Racial and cultural tension in the western church is at an all-time high. With all sides speaking into the issue without, it seems, a way forward. Minority voices in the church are beginning to rise above the supremacy of white evangelicalism, which historically has been in a place of power, prestige, and privilege. Love, respect,…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  October 24, 2017

  Asian Faith, Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  Apostles, bi-cultural, Christianity, church, culture, David Platt, Ed Stetzer, ethnocentrism, Evangelicals, grace, John Piper, Kingdom of God, leadership, Lecrae, love, minority, mission, Politics, Priviledge, race, racism, reconciliation, Truth, White, White Evangelicalism

• Thankful for Diarrhea

  

  I awoke to a sharp pain in my stomach.  It was the middle of the night in a rural and remote Asian village. The house was cold. Of course it was, it stood on stilts and there were no doors or windows. Speaking of which there were no bathrooms or latrines either. Not a single…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  November 26, 2013

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  Asia, asian, Being, breathtaking, crap, Creator, diarrhea, Doing, evangelism, Faith, Global Missions, Glory, God, Good News, goodness, Gospel, Holiday, hygiene, John Piper, Knowing, latrines, lost, Missional, Missions, open defecation, Poetry, remote villages, sanitation, satisfaction, scenery, Southeast Asia, thankfulness, thanksgiving celebrations, Travel, unsaved, village life, Worldview

• Suffering – The Key to Church Movements

  

  Every week I pray that our friends do not get arrested for telling others about Jesus. Whenever I travel I ask God for wisdom each time I am questioned by the police. When I sit down with local leaders and church planters the types of problems we face are: -Who is being followed? -How do…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 9, 2013

  Strategy & Church

  arrest, blood, calamity, church, church multiplication movement, church planting, church planting movement, death, early church, East, Faith, Fear, Glory, God, growth, history, jesus, John Piper, key, legal, martyr, martyrdom, missiology, Missions, opposition, persecution, physical, Police, prayer, promise, social, suffering, supremacy, theology, Travel, West, wisdom

• Dirty Feet

  

  Sometimes the greatest feeling in the world is having mud in between your toes. Why? It’s because you know you’re taking it like a man and getting dirty is not going to stop you. You understand the risks of riding a motorbike through a jungle in a third world country. You know the rainy season…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  May 29, 2013

  Missional Living

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