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If you are a pastor, this is a must see.

Darrin Patrick, lead pastor of The Journey (my home church and where I intern) interviews my friend Ed Stetzer, President of Lifeway Research and Lifeway’s Missiologist in Residence, on what he sees as the pressing issues within evangelicalism today.

I believe this is Ed at his best, bringing prophetic insight to a wide variety of topics that should be of interest to those who love the church and the Gospel. Enjoy:


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The Song of The First Born

Christ is the image of the invisible God,
the first born over all Creation;
For in him all things were made, in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,
All things were created through him and for him.
Christ is before all things and in him all things hold together.
He is the head of the body, the church.
He is the beginning, the first born from among the dead,
that in everything he might be pre-eminent.
In him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell,
and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
whether things on earth or things in heaven,
Making peace by the blood of his cross.

Colossians 1:15-20


Tim Chester, co-author of the seminal book, Total Church: A Radical Reshaping Around the Gospel and Community with Steve Timmis, has a new book coming out in mid-2009 called The Ordinary Hero: Living the Cross and Resurrection.

Here is Tim talking about the ethos of the book:


You can find all of Tim’s books here at Amazon.

You can read Tim’s blog at: Reformed Spirituality and Missional Church.


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