Source: Ted Esler<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA few weeks ago, I was in a conversation about preaching in churches regarding missions. I was struck by one comment. ‘If a church has<\/em> a \u201cmissions Sunday\u201d (and most do not) that will be the one Sunday of the year that the pastor will invite somebody outside of their church to preach. Most preachers ghost missions.’\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read Ghosting Missions<\/a> for three reasons why contemporary approaches to preaching might be behind the lack of sermons\u2014and what preaching missions might look like in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What do you think? Do you agree?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s another article you may find provoking. Er, thought-provoking. According to a survey by InterVarsity, Members of Gen Z are committed to missions but insist on changes to old models before they sign on<\/a> (Baptist News Global).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Ted Esler \u201cA few weeks ago, I was in a conversation about preaching in churches regarding missions. I was struck by one comment. ‘If a church has a \u201cmissions Sunday\u201d (and most do not) that will be the one Sunday of the year that the pastor will invite somebody outside of their church to … Continue reading Article: Three Reasons Why Missions Gets Ghosted<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14341,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14326\/revisions\/14341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}