A network of Reformed believers who want to see an increasing number of Christians, pastors, and missionaries in Southeast Asia grounded in a Reformed worldview and able to apply the Scriptures faithfully to life and ministry in Southeast Asia.
One of the perennial questions about Christianity in Thailand is why the church has traditionally grown so slowly compared to other countries where Protestant missionaries arrived around the same time. Ultimately, we don’t know for sure why the church grows
UPDATE: Mattheus van der Steen is no longer on the list of speakers for Revive Asia 2017 This coming January (2017), Revive Asia will host their second global conference. The theme of this conference is titled Harvest Glory. The synopsis
Once again, conversation in Singapore is awash with perspectives on the leaders from City Harvest Church (CHC, a megachurch in Singapore), who had been found guilty of criminal breach of trust, but have submitted appeals. Apparently, they had diverted church
In 2013, the Southeast Asia Network for the Gospel began when a small group of missionaries came together to organize an annual conference to think about ministry issues in the Southeast Asia context from a Reformed perspective. At that time,
I’m sure we’d all agree that our missionary and evangelistic methods should be derived scripturally. However, how many of these methods have actually considered the nature of the world religions from biblical perspective. Surely, this must be one of our
This past January the Revive Asia Conference took place in Bangkok, Thailand. There were over 25 countries represented at the conference, but the majority of the attendees were Thai Nationals. I was able to attend this event, in the hopes
Is wrath really essential to proclaiming the Gospel? Or can we set is aside, leaving it for a later date, lest we lose people before they even enter the church door? Why do we Need a Savior? I am
Summarizing our last discussion regarding what constitutes a church, we can say genuine churches are those visible, physical groups of disciples of Christ who agree to submit to the authority of Scripture and meet consistently in a particular location. These
What’s the best method for discipling a goat to become a sheep? What’s the best strategy for discipling a pig to behave like a man? What book should we use in discipling the lame to walk, the blind to see,
“What is the Church?” “What is a church?” In some ways it’s easier to answer the first question because we can keep it theoretical. The second question is messier. It is more specific and conditioned by our experiences of actual