105: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing (with Brian Stiller)

Brian Stiller of the World Evangelical Alliance shares from his vast life experience - over 80 years of life and more than 90 countries visited! - about the centrality of the Gospel, indigenous leadership in missions, and unity in the global Church. 

• From Jerusalem to Timbuktu: A Global Tour of the Spread of Christianity
• Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook for the 21st Century
• Jesus and Caesar: Christians in the Public Square
• Dispatches from Brian
• World Evangelical Alliance’s Statement of Faith
• “A good dose of humility is at the core of our working out relationships.”
• “On any one of these items, you can have division of opinion.”
• “Even though they’ll have variances on each one of them, and they’ll have cultural or tribal patterns that will maybe emphasize one over the other, these are core.”
• John 17
• “The nature of evangelicals is to be entrepreneurial, to have initiative, to listen to God speak to you, to be courageous, to work in faith. This results in all kinds of denominations.”
• “To be drawn together in unity in Christ, as Jesus prayed, by the Spirit, where unity creates a love for each other, a respect and a willingness to work with each other - that for me is more critical than any other thing that we face in the world today. How can we experience unity in Christ?”
• “Unity is not something that we create. Unity is something that we pray for and we hope for, but unity is something that the Spirit brings.”

What’s changing our lives:

• Keane: Mini golfing 
• Heather: Lunchtime prayer and journaling
• Brian: Wife recovering from congestive heart failure and gratitude for people praying for them

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