Missionary at Large

My name is Paul Arndt and I am deployed as a Missionary at Large to the Metro Detroit Tri-County area through East Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Detroit, MI.

I am …

• the creator of the spiritual cruci-formation process called The Receptive Life
• the content creator for the eXPlain it digital resource and curriculum portal
• and producer of Christ-centered digital content for the ekklesia resource site

Through a daily repetition of Christ centered spiritual disciplines I teach families, schools, and churches how to …

• defend themselves with the promises and work of Jesus
• fight with the “sword of the Spirit” (the Scriptures)
• rest and receive all of the gifts that only the Triune God can give

During thirty years of vocational ministry, I have served as a pastor in small and large congregations of the The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS).

ekklesia – a New Testament Greek word that referred to the early Church as the “assembly”, “gathering” or the “congregation” of saints

There are four core resources in the ekklesia site that focus on four different groups that gather around the Word.

• Those who have honest questions and would like them to be addressed with Scriptural answers (5 in 15 – five questions answered in 15 minutes … more or less)
• Those who desire Christ centered content that “eXPlains” the Scriptures (“eXPlain it”)
• Those who want to develop the daily exercises of the Christian faith that receives and responds to the gifts of Jesus (“The Receptive Life”)
• Those who want to learn how to develop a clear, bold and confident confession of the Christian faith (“We BTC”)

Ask a Question in My New Chat Box

Do you want to search all of the content and resources that I have created?

Or do you have a specific question that you would like to ask about …

• the Book of Revelation
• the Lutheran Confessions (the Formula of Concord)
• the Small and Large Catechism
• praying the Psalms with Jesus
• how to read and understand the Scriptures
• the Receptive Life …

If so, you can just type it in my chat box (here) and the software will search all of my content (videos, podcasts, audio) and, if I ever talked about your question, you’ll get an answer with resource references.

Try the content chat box in the button below …

A Caveat Statement

Though I am an advocate for the use of digital platforms for the Church, such virtual resources should never be seen as a replacement for the physical, in-person, gathering of the Church of Jesus.

I propose that any and all digital efforts should only supplement the proclamation of the Gospel and not supplant the community of saints that gather on the Lord’s Day to receive all of the gifts that only the Triune God can give.