Sometimes we achieve helpful clarity by recognizing important distinctions between similar but different concepts. In fact, some of our most popular blog posts have been about distinctions. Bob Moffitt’s post Reconciliation vs. Restoration has generated lots of traffic. And our most popular post, by far, is School vs. Education. To
Most Christ followers are ordinary people. And ordinary people often think their own circle is too small to be of much use to the kingdom. Great preachers, celebrity Christians, mega-church pastors, trained missionaries … these are the people who achieve great things in the kingdom. But not me. This is
Per the FAQ on the DNA website, “Discipling Nations Alliance is a worldwide alliance of Christian individuals, local churches and organizations committed to a common vision for church-based cultural transformation.” That’s another way to say what our name indicates: the goal is to see nations discipled, per Jesus’ Great Commission
Recently, Richard Smith in Argentina published a “sympathetic critique” of Darrow’s book Discipling Nations. He raised issues about Disciple Nations Alliance teaching that have been noted by others from time to time. We published, in six parts, Richard’s critique and Darrow’s response. In this follow-up post we bring you Richard’s response to Darrow, and
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If the church does not disciple the nation, the nation will disciple the church. The church has largely abandoned Jesus’ great commission to disciple nations. Yes, we have done lots of missionary activities, virtually everywhere around the world. But the mandate is not simply to take the gospel of Christ
The folks at the Bible Project recently developed a terrific video on heaven and earth (see below). We at the DNA find that there is still a great deal of confusion on this topic among Christians. Many (perhaps most) evangelical Christians hold to the idea that heaven and earth are
Latin America is the fruit of an ethnic, spiritual and cultural amalgam, the greatest “mestizo”, “syncretistic” cultural experiment in the world, resulting in a truly “bridge people.” Originally we were a mixture of Spanish, Indian and African cultures, creatively blended and adapted to the local circumstances. Soon, however, traditional Iberian
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