{"id":6043,"date":"2022-03-16T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegateway.press\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2022-03-16T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T16:00:00","slug":"community-dispersed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raincrossdev2.com\/gateway\/community-dispersed\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Dispersed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the initial days and weeks of shutdowns across the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic, churches, ministry leaders, and organizations grappled with how to be the church dispersed. Instantly, ministry leaders had to learn not only how to deliver a sermon digitally but wrestled with how to build needed community when God’s people could not gather. At Gateway Seminary, our strong emphasis on online education that seeks to not just inform, but transform, has provided us many years of theological, theoretical, and practical tools for developing community and content from a distance. Our faculty have been delivering biblical content and fostering community with students from around the world for well over a decade. It was out of the great need we witnessed among churches and from our own understanding of online education that we felt compelled to create helpful, instructive, and encouraging resources for the dispersed church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Posted by: Philip O. Hopkins<\/span>\n |<\/span>\n April 7, 2026<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n

\n Iran: Further Reading<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Read through this helpful bibliography of resources on Iran gathered by Dr. Phil Hopkins.<\/p>\n

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Professor of Missions<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
Philip O. Hopkins is a professor of missions and chair of the Missions and Intercultural Studies Department at Gateway Seminary. He earned Ph.D. in applied theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a second Ph.D. in Iranian history from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He is also the associate editor of the IRAN: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies.<\/div>\n
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\n Protected: Book Excerpt – Engaging the First Christian Historian<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Read an excerpt from Daniel M. Gurtner’s article in this festschrift in honor of Dr. Steve Walton<\/p>\n

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Dr. Gurtner has a passion for making Christ known through careful, deliberate, and worshipful study of the Bible, and training students to do the same.<\/div>\n
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\n Persecution and Protection of Iranian Christians<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

A closer look at the history of Christianity in Iran may be helpful in understanding the current war in Iran.<\/p>\n

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Professor of Missions<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n
Philip O. Hopkins is a professor of missions and chair of the Missions and Intercultural Studies Department at Gateway Seminary. He earned Ph.D. in applied theology from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and a second Ph.D. in Iranian history from the University of St. Andrews (Scotland). He is also the associate editor of the IRAN: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies.<\/div>\n
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\n The Gateway Journal of Theology Inaugural Issue<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n

Read all new articles in the inaugural issue of The Gateway Journal of Theology.<\/p>\n

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