A Message from your Lead Missional Strategist
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As a network of Southern Baptist shurches, we exist to facilitate cooperation between member churches for Kingdom Impact. We seek to engage the mission force with the mission field throughout the North Central Florida area and beyond. On this site you will find ideas, opportunities, and resources to connect in leadership development, church planting and mission engagement. We stand ready to come alongside you and your church leadership to help you pursue the Great Commandment and the Great Commission.
When Does it End?
Today I read a story in the New York Post that you may have missed. "Dr. Ian Jenkins and his partners, Jeremy Hodges and Dr. Alan Mayfield -- a polyamorous throuple -- made history in 2017 when they became the first family in the state to list three parents on a birth...
read moreWhat’s in Store for Church in America or What to do in the Next Pandemic?
In Florida, particularly in North Central Florida, many of our churches have meet for worship during the entirety of Covid experience. We have not encountered strict resistance accept through some edicts handed down from the Alachua County Commissioners and the city...
read moreHas the Heart of the Church Become Dull to Hear?
In a recent bible study I reread Paul's condemnation of the Jewish religious leaders of his day. He quoted Isaiah and said; 26 'GO TO THIS PEOPLE AND SAY, "YOU WILL KEEP ON HEARING, BUT WILL NOT UNDERSTAND; AND YOU WILL KEEP ON SEEING, BUT WILL NOT PERCEIVE; 27 FOR...
read moreWhat Are You Worth?
Looking at one of my collections the other day I told my wife this is worth a ton of money. She looked me in the eye and said what I have said many times, "it's only worth what you can get for it." It only takes one time of selling an item on facebook marketplace or...
read moreIn the Tough Times
More often than one might expect, people ask me why bad things happen to them. If you live long enough, you will experience trials, hurt, loss, and challenges. What I tell my children and my congregations when tough times come is it is appropriate and expedient to...
read moreWhat Now, Oh Lord?
ROMANS 13 1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. 2 Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will...
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