{"id":824,"date":"2010-07-08T10:20:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2010-07-24T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T23:30:02","slug":"dr-ed-stetzer-is-coming-to-dsc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/dr-ed-stetzer-is-coming-to-dsc\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ed Stetzer at DSC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were privileged to have Ed Stetzer preaching for us on Sunday, July 18th. He preached from 1 Peter 4:8-11, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/JUL_18_2010.php\">Empowering All God&#8217;s People for Mission<\/a>.&#8221; If you missed it, please do take the time to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/messages\/Date\/JUL_18_2010.php\">listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-827 alignnone\" title=\"Ed Stetzer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ed-stetzer-blog.png\" alt=\"Ed Stetzer\" width=\"190\" height=\"286\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stetzer is President of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifeway.com\/lwc\/mainpage\/0%2C1701%2CM%3D200767%2C00.html\">LifeWay Research<\/a> (SBC) and is LifeWay\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Missiologist in Residence, where he oversees a large team of Christian researchers examining the health of churches worldwide. He\u00c2\u00a0has planted, pastored, and revitalized numerous churches; and he has trained pastors and church planters around the world. He holds two master\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degrees and two doctorates, and has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ed-Stetzer\/e\/B001JP8EUI\/desesprichur-20\">several books<\/a>. Dr. Stetzer\u00c2\u00a0is frequently cited or interviewed in news outlets such as <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/post\/Ed+Stetzer\/4556.blog\/1\">USA Today<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dD58U1BEMRo\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In short, he is one of this generation&#8217;s leading thinkers in the areas of evangelism, church planting, and culture, so, again, it is a great privilege for us to have him preach for us. He&#8217;ll be preaching from Invite a friend to join you that Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to spend some time getting to know Ed and his work some more, here are some things to check out:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You can click over to\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstetzer.com\/\">his blog<\/a> for all kinds of stats, studies, and articles<\/li>\n<li>Specifically, you may want to read a series of blog posts on what it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstetzer.com\/the-meanings-of-missional.html\">means to be &#8220;missional&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>You can watch Ed faithfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstetzer.com\/2010\/06\/tbn.html\">preaching the gospel and mission<\/a> on TBN of all places<\/li>\n<li>You can watch him teach on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianity.com\/ligonier\/?speaker=stetzer1\">&#8220;The New Media&#8221;<\/a> at\u00c2\u00a0R.C. Sproul&#8217;s Ligonier Conference<\/li>\n<li>Or, you may want to pick up one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ed-Stetzer\/e\/B001JP8EUI\/desesprichur-20\">Ed&#8217;s books<\/a> and start reading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were privileged to have Ed Stetzer preaching for us on Sunday, July 18th. He preached from 1&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/dr-ed-stetzer-is-coming-to-dsc\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":826,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}