Perspective on evangelism.

Over the past year, I’ve been considering the issue of evangelism and its purpose, approaches, and role in God’s kingdom. One thing that has always bothered me is that most of the sermons I hear about evangelism seem very guilt-inducing to me. They usually come from someone who is extroverted and gifted in people skills–and [...]

Biblical Prohibitions and our Formation.

One of the topics at yesterday’s church staff meeting focused on the issue of homosexuality and same-sex attraction. An American Baptist denomination newsletter recently ran an article highlighting the recent event at Evergreen LA, “We Need to Talk: A Conversation about Homosexuality & the Asian American Christian Church” which is covered here and here [...]

Why Ethnic-Specific Ministries Exist in America, part 1.

This month, I’m taking a three-week intensive version of Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. Most of the participants in the class are undergraduate students, part of a group that is giving students an understanding of what God is doing around the world. Taking Perspectives is part of their program. Virtually all the students in [...]

The Centrality of Preaching.

Last year, at a chapel address at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Alistair Begg, citing B.B. Warfield, said that preaching is the most important part of pastoral ministry. However, George Barna, in his controversial book Revolution, boldly suggests that people’s lives are not being changed much by their attendance Sunday mornings, and that we must re-think the [...]

New direction.

I’ve been asked to take a new ministry direction in my pastoral internship at Evergreen SGV this summer. My part-time internship becomes full-time during the summertime, and it is designed to give me more in-depth ministry experience. I will be implementing a new system of assimilating people into our church. As our church just recently [...]