Category Archives: Ezines

When the late Dr. Bill Bright, Founder of Campus Crusade (Cru) and I launched the Global Church Network (also referred to as Billion Soul Network), we launched the Global Church Divinity School (GCDS.tv) in 2002. I remember, like it was yesterday, sharing with Dr. Bright in the fall of 2001, about the online streaming capacity through Real Networks located in Seattle, Washington. I explained to Dr. Bright that we would be able to train pastors and leaders worldwide. The Early Vision of Internet Training In November 2001, Dr. Bright and I hosted a nationwide conference call with 105 distinguished leaders. During the conference call, we streamed live power point slides…

One of the greatest questions Christians have is, “How can I know God’s will or my life?” In other words, “How can I find my role in God’s goal? In this Genesis 24, we read five times the statement, “Good-Speed” or “success.” It means that God’s hand is upon His servants, helping them to do the things that He wants them to do. The background for this chapter is that Abraham is the father of the Jewish nation. Abraham has a son of promise, named Isaac. Then, there came a time when Isaac needed a bride. Abraham desires to obtain a bride for his son, Isaac. In a similar manner, God desires to have a…

LEADERSHIP TEAM Tobi Arayomi Misael Argeñal Desmond Austin Doug Beacham Matt Beemer Ricardo Castillo Mark Chironna Steve Chong Florin Cimpean James O. Davis Ed & Trish Farrell Wayland Henderson Timothy Hill Abson Joseph Craig Keener Tara Korpi Suliasi Kurulo Batbold Lkhamsuren Greg Lyons Angel E. Marcial Wayman Ming Alex Mitala David Mohan Peter Mortlock Urs Daniel Schmid Daniel Simão Samuel Smadja John O. Smith David Sobrepeñao Robert Stearns Carla Sunberg Leonard Sweet James Taylor IV Casey & Wendy Treat Micah Wood Steven Ybarrola Byoungho Zoh   Answering The Top Seven Questions Of Our Time To Fulfill The Great Commission    In homage to the First Century Church Fathers who gathered…

When we read the opening book of Romans, the apostle Paul tells us what his book is all about. In verse 1 he says he is writing about the Gospel of God. In verse 9 he calls it the Gospel of God’s Son. In verse 16 he calls it the Gospel of Christ. The purpose of the book of Romans is to tell the Good News of what God has done to make it possible for us to get out of the sin mess we find ourselves in. The Good News is what Jesus Christ did at Calvary to pay the price for our sins. Probably one of greatest commentaries…

We are certainly living in a world that is filled with bad news. It seems daily, on the television and in the newspaper, the news is increasingly bad. It seems that every day the news is filled with violence and tragedy, with horror and with heartache. It seems everywhere we turn today, the news is increasingly bad. That’s one of the reasons I love the Bible and enjoy talking about the Bible. The Bible is a book that is filled with Good News. In fact, every time you open the Bible, somewhere in that passage you will find a message from God about Good News. The Bible is Good News…

Over the last forty years, I believe I have heard just about every excuse possible why Christ-followers cannot be faithful to weekly church attendance, cannot be consistent in sharing Christ with the lost or answering the call into fulltime ministry. When local churches used to host evangelistic and revival crusades, I was fortunate to preach hundreds of them. During those years, I would ask Pastors to give me a list of names to call and invite to the crusade. I invited more than 10,000 Christians to attend the crusades over those years. As you can imagine, I got a lot of positive responses and also truckloads of excuses why he…

Dr. Martin Luther was a Roman monk. He was a theologian—a professor in a school. He was desperately trying to learn how to be right with God. There came a time he took a journey to Rome and climbed on his knees up Pilate’s stairs, where supposedly the blood of Jesus Christ was dropped as you go up. Dr. Luther stopped and kissed the blood on every one of those steps. But when he came to the top of the stairs, he realized he was no more right with God that he had been. Yet it was through the book of Romans that Martin Luther studied, and he came to…

Pastors and ministry leaders from across 22 Pacific Island nations converged in Fiji October 8-10, 2024, for the FINISH Oceania Summit, where they collaboratively developed missional strategies for leadership development, evangelism, discipleship, church planting and strategic networking. Convened by the Global Church Network (GCN) in synergistic partnership with Dr. Suliasi Kurulo, founder of World Harvest Center and Christian Missionary Fellowship in Suva, Fiji, the summit was the next part of the FINISH 2030 campaign to finalize the Great Commission by 2030.  “In order to complete the Great Commission, ministry leaders must be able to tie relational knots to build a net that works. No knot, no net, no network,” said Dr. James…

Multiplication Impact of Ministry Training Hubs – Reaching 800 by 2030 – Essential to FINISH the Great Commission in this Generation With a mission to finalize the Great Commission by 2030, Global Church Network (GCN) has set a goal of establishing 800 leadership training hubs worldwide in order to mobilize one million new ministers at a time when there is a global shortage of pastors. With the grand opening of Hubs in both the Balkans and South Africa this month, GCN will have launched 200 Hubs on six continents, putting the ministry on track to exceed its goal within this decade. “Just like airline companies and major corporations have their…

Do you want to know why this world is in darkness? It is because people have refused the light. They cannot tell the difference between right and wrong because they are living in darkness and cannot see. Jesus is the number one issue because Jesus is God communicating with us. JESUS IS GOD CREATING A) Jesus is the Power of Creation -­ Not only is Jesus God communicating, but Jesus is God creating. Science states that the creation of the world was the result of a great cosmic accident called the big bang. They say billions of years ago there was a fortuitous concourse of some primeval life forms that…