Tag: Tradition

• The Kingdom of Who?…Model, Assist, Watch & Leave

  

  I walked into an immaculate church building recently and was blown away. It was brand spankin new. You could still smell the sky blue colored paint. It was equipped with everything you would need to do traditional church stuff; sound system, keyboard, projector, laptop, new kitchen, open cafeteria, all-you-can-drink powdered coffee and guestrooms with air…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 30, 2015

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  Animism, Buddhism, Christianity, church multiplication movement, church planting, dependency, Discipleship, eternity, evangelism, Gospel, Islam, jesus, Kingdom of God, leadership, MAWL, missionary, Model, Southeast Asia, strategy, T4T, Tradition, Training for Trainers

• Re-prioritizing Easter: 3 Ways to Share the Gospel and Collect Eggs

  

  About 30 eggs filled with my wife’s “healthiest candies” lay hidden in the small patch of grass in our front yard. After a short reading of the Easter story in Luke 24 my three kids ransacked the green grass filling their baskets with the treasured eggs. I snapped a few really cute photos of the…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 1, 2015

  Missional Living

  Art, Christianity, church, culture, death, Discipleship, Easter, Faith, Good News, Gospel, Holiday, jesus, Missional, resurrection, Rural, sin, Tradition, Unreached People Groups, urban, witness

• Chapter 8: Monkhood

  

  My mom tried everything to keep me off the streets, even religion. In Southeast Asian Buddhist culture it is customary for young males to spend time in their local temple as a novice monk. It’s a way to earn merit for our past offenses and a way to earn respect from the surrounding Asian community.…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 14, 2014

  Toby’s Story

  Asian-American, Autobiography, Bhudda, Buddhism, Buddhist, culture, Drugs, ethnic minority, Faith, gang life, Ghosts, haunting, Idols, Juvenile Delinquency, novice monk, prayer, religion, southeast asian, Spirits, temple, Testimony, Tradition, youth

• Training Trainers: A New Paradigm for Discipleship

  

  No one likes to be told they are doing something wrong, especially leaders, pastors and church planters. We’ve devoted our lives to growing the Church but have we been doing it all wrong? I hate it when I’m wrong. My pride always says that I am right. But my pride can’t argue with results. The…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  May 9, 2014

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  Apostle Paul, Buddhist, church growth, church multiplication movement, church planting movement, consumerism, CPM, Disciple Making Movements, Discipleship, East, emergent, Faith, Featured, gang-member, God, Gospel, Great Commission, jesus, Kingdom, leadership, Missional, missionary, movements, obedience, organic, paradigm, pioneer, post-modern, religion, Scripture, simple church, Steve Smith, strategy, T4T, Timothy, Tradition, Training for Trainers, unchurched, West, western church, Ying Kai, zombies

• Is Faith in the West Dead?

  

  One day I’m sitting on a sky train in a major bustling city sipping Starbucks frappuccino while the next I’m sitting in a thatched hut in a jungle eating a rare and newly discovered species of squirrel.  In both places I get to live life with people who are lost and people who are found.…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  September 30, 2013

  Strategy & Church

  Asia, Christian, Christianity, church growth, church planting, church planting movement, churches, city, comfort, dangerous, dead faith, East, Europe, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, jesus, jungle, Kingdom of God, Latin America, missiology, Missional, Missions, movement, new species, obedience, obeservations, reproducing, simple, sky train, Southeast Asia, Spirit-led, spiritual, squirrel, Starbucks, strategy, Tradition, U.S.A., urban, West

• The Fear of Bombs and Demons

  

  Fear is the same the world over.  Its manifestations though are quite diverse. Here in the West we fear the loss of control. Chaos is a threat to our security and stability.  Without control our way of life is in danger.  Our children are in danger, our investments are in danger, our houses are in…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 30, 2013

  Asian Faith

  Animism, Belief, Bomb, Bondage, Chaos, Children, Christian, church, Control, culture, Deception, Demons, East, Faith, Fear, Fight, Freedom, God, Heavenly, House, Idols, Investment, King, Life, Realm, Sacrifice, Satan, Slave, Southeast Asia, Spirits, Terrorist, Tradition, Truth, Villages, West, Worldview, Worship