Articles for tag: Homogeneous Unit Principle

June 9, 2016

By Travis and Dena Hurley Society”s efforts to build racial unity are not succeeding. Only the gospel offers the possibility for easing racial tensions and bringing together those who have long stayed apart with suspicion toward each other. The church can make the difference””if we will. When the American Crime Story miniseries revisited the O.J. Simpson trial this spring, it reminded us of the “not guilty” verdict in 1995. At the time, the evidence of Simpson”s guilt seemed overwhelming. We were baffled by what appeared to be scenes of celebration among the black community. Was there no respect for the

November 23, 2015

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Back to the City

By Kendi Howells Douglas Our increasingly urban world requires a commitment to embracing diversity and pursuing reconciliation as we plant churches in cosmopolitan environments. Our world is more urban than rural for the first time in history1, and in addition to rethinking how we prepare people to minister in an urban world, we must look at church planting efforts in light of this new reality. In researching the history of the Restoration Movement in urban areas, I have discovered some factors that have kept many of our churches out of cities in the past. One issue was failure to be

November 5, 2012

Christian Standard

Mission & Evangelism

Where Are We Now?

By Stephen Burris Over the past 200 years, there has been a great deal of focus on what the church has been doing, is currently doing, and what still needs to be done. This article seeks to give a general overview of whatÂ the church has been doing to fulfill its nature as a missionary church. This piece builds on a model developed by Ralph Winter1. It looks at the three eras of mission he described and then updates that model to represent the current reality of the world. Virtually from the beginning, the church has wrestled with what task or