For Baptists in Virginia, these new ways of doing church are quite old.
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Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
Gannon Sims is director of ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator for Fresh Expressions US.
Gannon Sims: A challenge to the new Calvinists
By
Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
The threshold to the Calvinist house is not total depravity. It’s God’s grace.
Gannon Sims: From hostility to hospitality
By
Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
Ministry in a troubled neighborhood led one pastor to start The Well Community, a church just for the mentally ill.
Gannon Sims: Word renovation
By
Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
Our vocabulary, on matters both institutional and faithful, can become dulled.
Gannon Sims: Balance required in traditioned innovation
By
Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
Christian leaders are stepping down from their tractors and back on the land.
Gannon Sims: “Watchfulness” is a better word for leadership than “vision”
By
Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
The transformation of dead space into sacred space shows us the importance of watchfulness.
Gannon Sims: Business as evangelism?
By
Gannon Sims
Director, ministry formation and Virginia regional coordinator, Fresh Expressions US.
“Business leaders will be the evangelists of the 21st century.”
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