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Not All Church Planting in Missions Is Created Equal

Jun 4, 2024 | thegospelcoalition.org | Matthew Bennett |Tim Keller |Edmund P. Clowney |Brett McCracken

This language was thought to carry less rigid expectations for structure, less divisive doctrinal distinctions, and less potential for importing cultural baggage. Today, however, “church” is again in vogue in missiology. Church planting is increasingly seen as the aim of missions. Advertise on TGCDespite this positive shift, what missiologists and missionaries mean when they speak of the church often remains unclear.
Letter: With authoritarian tendencies evident, where is Utah

Mar 19, 2024 | sltrib.com | Matthew Bennett

In "How Civil Wars Start," Barbara F. Walter identifies the two biggest risk factors for civil war as: (1) the devolution of institutions into semi-democracy, and (2) the emergence of identity-based factions such as Christian nationalism. In Utah, we already live in a dominant-party system. For decades, our politics have been controlled by a veto-proof, Republican supermajority. We have no real check against the Legislature within the executive.
To undermine the potential for corruption, A.G. elections should be publicly funded

Jan 23, 2024 | sltrib.com | Matthew Bennett

In the recent article, " Shurtleff, Swallow and now Reyes. Why so much Utah A.G. turmoil? Is there a solution?," Robert Gehrke centered the issue of integrity in the A.G.'s office on the problem of oversight and the possibility of switching to an appointment-based system. But there is a third option: publicly fund elections. If not for every government office, then at least for the top law enforcement position in Utah.
3 Eras Shape Modern Missions

Oct 11, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Matthew Bennett |Winfree Brisley |Melissa Kruger |Miranda Carls

Reading contemporary missions literature, one encounters a diversity of approaches and philosophies to cross-cultural ministry. Such diversity didn’t arise in a vacuum. These are developments that emerged from various emphases we can trace from the previous 200 years of Western missions engagement. In this article, I’ll sketch an overview of modern missions history by highlighting three distinct eras. They’ve produced different emphases or trajectories that continue today in Western missiology.
The American Church Needs a Missionary Perspective

Mar 20, 2023 | thegospelcoalition.org | Matthew Bennett |Mike Pettengill |Tim Keller |Trevin Wax

Have you ever returned to a familiar place only to find it different than you recall? That happened when I came back to my childhood home to help my family prepare it for sale. I walked through each room, enjoying recalling a host of memories from my childhood. But as I tried to look at the space through the eyes of a potential buyer—one lacking the endearment prompted by nostalgia—I saw things differently. Undesirable characteristics I’d always overlooked became obvious.
Louisiana Baptists praying for ‘huge’ Gospel impact during SBC annual meeting

Mar 1, 2023 | baptistpress.com | Brian Blackwell |Ashley Allen |Matthew Bennett |Troy Bush

NEW ORLEANS (BP) – Louisiana Baptists say prayer is key to a pair of evangelistic efforts preceding the 2023 Southern Baptist Convention Annual Meeting, which is scheduled for June 13-14 in New Orleans. The Send Relief Serve Tour, an effort that seeks to involve participants in service projects in Houma and New Orleans as the foundation for evangelism, will take place June 9-10.
FIRST-PERSON: Hope for American evangelicals

Mar 1, 2023 | brnow.org | Matthew Bennett

Perhaps, like me, you’ve had the experience of returning to a place that was once familiar, only to find it different than you remember—or rather, the place is the same, but you have new eyes as you walk through it. I encountered this phenomenon when my family sold the house I grew up in. When I returned to help my mom and sisters get the place ready for sale, it had been six years since I had lived there.
Southwestern Seminary accepts City of Fort Worth offer for purchase of Carroll Park

Mar 1, 2023 | baptistpress.com | Ashley Allen |Matthew Bennett |Troy Bush |Tobin Perry

FORT WORTH (BP) — Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary accepted a non-binding agreement for an $11 million acquisition of 15 acres of the B.H. Carroll Park property from the Fort Worth Housing Finance Corporation, the housing development arm of the City of Fort Worth, during the Fort Worth City Council meeting on Feb. 28, Interim President David S. Dockery announced today.
FIRST-PERSON: Hope for American evangelicals

Mar 1, 2023 | baptistpress.com | Matthew Bennett |Troy Bush |Tobin Perry |Scott Barkley

Perhaps, like me, you’ve had the experience of returning to a place that was once familiar, only to find it different than you remember—or rather, the place is the same, but you have new eyes as you walk through it. I encountered this phenomenon when my family sold the house I grew up in. When I returned to help my mom and sisters get the place ready for sale, it had been six years since I had lived there.
Being 'pro-life' is not about life, unless all life is included

Feb 10, 2023 | sltrib.com | Matthew Bennett

Our elected representatives in Utah want to stretch the concept of personhood to human fetuses and, in the same moment, rejigger the law, with HB114, so that sick animals can't be rescued from corporate trash cans. By any measure, the piglets rescued from Circle Four Farms in 2017 were as alive as any human. But when it comes to non-humans, the only measure that seems to matter is taste. Roughly, 124 million pigs are killed every year in the United States (see animalclock.org).