Sacred Roots Thriving in Ministry: Moving Forward to Multiply

Welcome

Greetings, dear friends and fellow warriors, in the strong name of Jesus Christ! Welcome to the Sacred Roots Thriving in Ministry: Moving Forward to Multiply Evangel Gathering! Our partnership with Dr. Hank Voss and his colleagues and Taylor University is bearing fruit among dozens of Church leaders engaging their hearts and minds with the spiritual classics. This collaboration continues to be both significant and refreshing, linking the Evangel DNA with the scholarship and perspective of the spiritual classics. Those early fathers and mothers who anchored their remarkable testimonies and ventures in the apostolic message are now our tutors. As these valiant servants of Christ engaged the apostolic tradition they maneuvered through hurtful situations, strange doctrines, violent opposition, and internal conflict. The clarity and excellence they displayed resulted from their dedication to Christ and his Kingdom, their determination to move forward to multiply. Our conference flows from the key insights of our National Church Planting Director, Rev. Bob Engel, who has captured this vision in his new primer on global missions entitled Mere Missions: Moving Forward to Multiply . Bob’s important book articulates the foundational principles connected to effective apostolic mission. We are convinced those principles were articulated and made plain in the spiritual classics provided through the thorough and excellent translations of our SRTM classics. We seek to combine our insights regarding effective spiritual warfare with the wisdom and power of the ancient Church. They can guide, train, and empower us to be faithful in the midst of a lost world and to move forward to multiply – raising up a new generation of disciples in the most troubled neighborhoods on earth. Your involvement is key to this mission. We have prayed fervently for months for you personally and this conference, that our worship, fellowship, presentations, dialogues, and resources of this conference will challenge and inspire you to redouble your efforts in training leaders through the classics to move forward . We must take new ground, seek new vistas of outreach and mission, engage new cultures and countries to make disciples of Jesus within them. We must multiply , fulfilling the commission of Christ among the lost. Your participation inspires us. Let’s learn together and see how God can move us all forward to multiply kingdom impact around the world!

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