My writing today is inspired by a long time pastor friend who passed away yesterday. I was certainly saddened by this news, and although we never served together on staff, Bro Jacobs was a true spiritual mentor. Gospel gratitude compels me to reflect on this spiritual giant of a man. When I was very young and in my home church in Campbellsville, I was in a ministry called RA's. (Royal Ambassadors for those of you who were not familiar with Southern Baptist mission educati

I was called to ministry in the mid nineties. I grew up in the tail end of the church growth era, respectfully was the 70's and 80's. By the nineties, churches were forming a different kind of model. The church health movement began to soar with guys like Rick Warren and Bill Hybles promoting a different way to do church. By the early 2000's the emergent church movement was trying to take off, lead by guys like Dan Kimball and Leonard Sweet. Thankfully that didn't seem