Trends and Issues Affecting the Next American Spirituality

Three Trends and Three Issues Affecting Asian Missions” by David Barrett bring focus on obvious antipode of missionary need in the Western hemisphere today. The Macedonian Call to 3.7 billion Asian people with some 9% Christians is no small issue in global missions. At the same time, America becoming the 3rd largest mission field in the world is the obvious missions gap in the Western hemisphere. The parallels in post-modernity are many. About 20 years ago, a book called “The Next American Spirituality” summarized the culture of today’s American spirituality and its relation to the apostolic church. The main question is, ...

Hope for the Hippocampus

National Church Survey to Reveal State of the American Church in 2021

National church survey reveals important data about the state of the church in America today The survey has been conducted for the past several years in several hundred congregations from all denominations across the United States. All collected national trends provide information about essential ministry dynamics and characteristics of the local congregation like: Church Type & Membership Teams & Leaders Praise & Worship Pastoral/Personal Mission & Vision Subscribe to ChurchInfluence.com weekly newsletter to receive free each published report containing important information about current church trends in America today. Sample reports from the national State of the Church survey include: 5 common church types across the ...

35% Of Americans Believe Bible Study Cures Mental Illness in 2020

35% Of Americans Believe Bible Study Cures Mental Illness To follow up on the previous statistics, over a third of Americans believe faith can help people overcome mental illness. Having open conversations about mental illness inchurch could encourage those dealing with it to seek help and counseling along with faith-based healing.

30 Years of Miracles: 2018

The greatest miracles in life come when we are the least prepared for them. And they never leave us!     This book should have been published seven years ago in 2013. Its original subtitle was going to read “7 Years in Bulgaria.” Instead, it took seven years to finish it with all documents, research archives and new cases. Now, it is finally here and it finally reads like a story – not just choppy interviews, deposition documented testimonies or court records, but a story of struggle, strength and solitude. A story of life and a story of us. 1995-96 The establishing of the first ...

30 Years of Miracles: 2017

If 2016 was a final preparatory year, in many ways 2017 was a closing year in light of several future events concluding with the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. We had no clue that in just a few short months, God will visit us with a series of Last Days Revivals that we personally have not observed as far back as 1999. Different than recent years, where prolonged single revival were extended in one single locations, this was a new approach where the Spirit of God was moving from one location to another independent from any organized schedule. We simply agreed ...

30 Years of Miracles: 2016

The year 2016 in many ways was a preparatory one. We had completed several major milestones in Bulgaria in the last two years. Now plans that have been set in motion for our ministry. First off, the 500th Anniversary of the Reformation planned for 2017 marked a key conclusion of a long translation journey. After publishing the New Bulgarian Translation of the New Testament in small portions in 2007, it was time to put it all together. We had already printed, both in Europe and the Americas a complete Tetraevangelion in the Bulgarian vernacular: John and the Johannine Corpus (Gospel, Epistles ...