Tag: Worldview

• 14 Crucial Characteristics of Church Movement Leaders: Working Among Unreached Peoples

  

  With the work I do, I often ask (and get asked) about Unreached People Groups (UPG’s) and how to see indigenous church movements started among them. This conversation always goes back to leadership and why movements (an act of God by the way) can’t happen without them. I have the privilege to labor among UPG’s…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  March 21, 2018

  Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  Africa, Asia, character, church planting movement, creative access nations, Discipleship, Holy Spirit, jesus, Latin America, leadership, missiology, movements, pioneer, prayer, relationships, strategy, T4T, team, Unreached People Groups, UPG, vision, Worldview

• The Way of the Ninja: 6 Ways to Define Our Missional Role

  

  Every Asian kid growing up has one time played ninja. You take a black t-shirt, wrap it around your head, make some paper throwing stars and hide in the closet to get the drop on your unsuspecting brother or sister. Movies and pop-culture show the ninja to be a bad-ass warrior. But real life ninjas…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  February 19, 2016

  Asian Faith, Missional Living, Strategy & Church

  assassin, church planting, church planting movement, culture, Disciple Making Movements, Discipleship, Faith, Global Missions, God’s glory, Gospel, jesus, Kingdom of God, Missional, missionary, Missions, movement pioneers, ninja, No Place Left, obedience, Unreached People Groups, Worldview

• Is the Gospel Worth the Risk?

  

  I was on a skinny wooden boat recently traveling up river to a remote cluster of villages we had never been to. We’ve only seen these villages in our minds as we prayed for them and on satellite images surrounded by mountain valleys. We were determined to get there despite the fact that we didn’t…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  October 20, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  adventure, Bible, Christianity, Communist, Faith, God, Gospel, human trafficking, jesus, knowledge, Missional Living, Missions, obedience, orphans, persecution, poverty, Risk, sheep, Travel, Unreached People Groups, wolves, Worldview

• When Failing Feels Like Crap

  

  We spend a lot of time cleaning up crap. You know…the mess we make as a result of our own selfish decisions. It doesn’t matter if we are leaders, missionaries, or pastors, we all fall to pride, lust, anger, self-righteousness, worry and self. In those times that we fail to triumph over sin we feel…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  April 7, 2014

  Asian Faith, Missional Living

  Bible, brokeness, Christian living, college, Corona, crap, Discipleship, failing, failure, Faith, flee from sin, Freedom, gang-bangers, God, grace, hate sin, Holy Spirit, humility, jesus, Kingdom of God, leadership, Lies, lust, missionary, pastors, Power, pride, Prison, refugees, Romans, Scripture, self-defeat, shit, shitter, sin, thieves, Tijuana, train trainers, transparency, Truth, victory, Worldview

• 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

• The Girl with Evil Spirits

  

  Not long ago I was sitting in a thatched hut praying over a sixteen year old girl who was afflicted by demons. For more than 6 months she was bed-ridden and couldn’t walk. She is the only believer in her entire Animistic tribe. Her family has allowed her to “test” Jesus because nothing else worked…

  The Asian Rough Rider

  August 27, 2013

  Asian Faith

  Afflication, Ancestral, Animism, Asia, Belief, Christian, Christianity, culture, Demons, East, Ethnic Groups, Evil Spirit, Exorcism, Eyes, Faith, Family, Ghosts, Glory, God, Gospel, Healing, Holy Spirit, jesus, Kingdom, Manifestation, Medical, middle-class, Miracles, missiology, Missions, Movies, New Testament, people groups, Possession, Power, Power Encounters, Reality, Remote, Sickness, Spirits, spiritual, Suburbia, Teen, Teenager, Test, Tribe, upper-class, Village, West, Worldview

• 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