Here’s a quick breakdown of what the Lord is doing in places where public expressions of Christianity result in persecution, excommunication, and death: Jesus is saving people. Many of those people are part of a disciple making group. Each person in a group is leading another group. Each of those people are being discipled and are obediently reproducing other groups of disciples that do likewise. And most of those people are women.
Read MoreWe’re here to bear one another’s burdens. To help shoulder the messy, weighty responsibility of restoring the person who sinned and coming alongside any other persons affected or involved. If the exposure of another person’s sin makes us feel superior because it’s not something we struggle with, we’re in deception, and we’re being of no use to the brother or sister in sin. We’re just playing into the slanderous symphony composed by the Accuser of the Brethren.
Read MoreScripturally speaking, music is warfare. Music is a uniquely effective teaching device. Music is the wave worship rides on in the throne room. Most significantly, it is a strategic means of fellowshipping with the One who inhabits eternity. If that doesn’t blow your mind, I don’t know what will. Yet in light of all these things, we find that music is one of His methods of maturing us.
Read MoreJohn’s decisions and commitments have long provoked us, and we believe the Body at large has an incredible opportunity in this era to leverage the internet and all our modern tech toys in the same way Martin Luther leveraged Gutenberg’s printing press to produce excellent messaging content and distribute it as widely as possible as efficiently as possible.
Read MoreRead this exclusive excerpt of Stephanie Quick’s “Ruins of the Renaissance: Crisis, Clarity, and Apostolic Artistry,” a manifesto for artists and creatives who bear the Image, Name, and Message of Jesus.
Read MoreIn this exclusive excerpt from our Decade Edition of the FAI PILGRIM Field Journal, Director Jeff Henderson reflects on the epidemic of fatherlessness and what the Body of Jesus is meant to bear witness to as a family. We are all meant to grow up in Christ and raise spiritual children of our own.
Read MoreTaken from our 2021 Decade Edition of our annual PILGRIM Field Journal, J. Bloomfield asks how we should respond when our host peoples bring their lifeless dreams or dead bodies to our doorstep.
Read MoreTaken from our 2021 Decade Edition of our annual PILGRIM Field Journal, Stephanie Quick describes FAI’s commitment to resource those who have the Gospel as we labor to reach those who do not have the Gospel.
Read MoreTaken from our 2021 Decade Edition of our annual PILGRIM Field Journal, FAI Director Jeff Henderson illuminates the tested and tried surety of Jesus, His return, and the immutable throne He will rule from forever—and the confidence this gives us to endure today.
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