Archive for 'Ministry Philosophy'

Church Planting: Create or Adapt

Church Planting: Create or Adapt

This Sunday, our church, Vision Baptist Church, will celebrate her 5th anniversary. I cannot believe how fast the last 5 years has passed. It seems like only yesterday, a group of us were staying up through the night getting our auditorium ready for our launch service. Serving on the pastoral staff of a church plant [...]

New Word: Christianity

Χριστιανός blank blank blank Tonight at Vision we had our monthly Q & A Session. Throughout the month people email, text, and turn in question for the Pastor to answer during this Sunday evening service. He doesn’t know what the questions will be until they come up on the screen. It is exciting and occasionally [...]

Be. Do. Serve. Train

Be. Do. Serve. Train

The majority of the people who read my blog know or have a pretty good idea what the title “be. do. serve. train” means to our ministry. It is our basic philosophy of discipleship, which means  it is our basic philosophy of ministry. About 15 years ago Austin Gardner, my pastor, wrote down these words [...]