God Is on the Move in Asia: Church Multiplication Stories from Southeast Asia - 2024

This book God is on the Move in Asia arose from a regional church multiplication summit hosted at Singapore Bible College, in January 2024. We welcomed church planters, scholars, and practitioners alike from throughout the region, including countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, India, Hong Kong, Myanmar, and Australia. Our goal for these events is to welcome people to a table of shared learning, where each participant brings a dish (metaphorically speaking) and we eat, fellowship together, and learn from each other regarding global church planting. The dishes are all cooked in indigenous pots. Church planting looks, feels, and tastes differently all around the world. We cannot foist our understanding from one context upon another. The seasonings, cooking styles, and flavors ooze out of traditions handed down over the centuries, arising directly from people and land. It is one of the great mysteries of the Gospel that God uses people in their contexts. He does not ask us to escape culture but redeems culture from within. He does not ask us to return to Jerusalem … but be sent by the Holy Spirit everywhere. The story of the early church makes this clear. We see it in Paul’s words to the church in Colossae; but then narrated by the spread of the gospel around the world in the ensuing centuries, to places like southeast Asia where this event took place.