A while ago, I wrote a post entitled Missiology is Meaningless which suggested that missiology was too broad a term to be used without qualification. Terms like missiological reflection and missiologically informed are tossed around, but they can mean very different things to different people, depending on their starting point. Lately, I’ve noticed the same thing […]
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Trinity and Mission: A Reading List
I’ve just come across an excellent paper via Academia.edu written by my friend Mark Oxbrow of Faith To Share. It is a short review of the literature on the subject of Trinity and Mission and it looks as though my Amazon wishlist is about to get an awful lot longer. Here is the first paragraph: By […]
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The Trinity and…
This excellent series of short videos from Mike Reeves introduces the way in which the concept of God as Trinity needs to effect the whole of our lives. None of the videos are longer than two minutes, so there is no real excuse not to watch them. #1 The God who is Trinity #2 Trinity and our good […]
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Mission: The Trinity 2
In my last post in this series, I suggested (not for the first time) that the mission of the Church has its roots in the character of the Triune God. In this post I’d just like to take that concept a little bit further. One God in Three Persons. God is one and yet he […]
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The Gospels as Eyewitness Accounts
It is well worth spending an hour of your time watching this video. It is absolutely brilliant and makes a very clear case as to why the Gospels can be considered as reliable eyewitness accounts of the events they describe.
This is a longer post than usual, it is material that I am working up into a paper and I’d value your thoughts on it. Sometimes, people seem to imply that the only purpose of the Old Testament is to provide the background needed to understand what happens in the New Testament. I think there […]
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Mission and Anthropology
There are a number of deeply held views and assumptions about cross-cultural mission which don’t always stack up. This post reflects on some of these (again). Over at Mission Misunderstood, Ernest Goodman has written a superb article entitled the anthropological approach to missions. Now would be a good time to read it, partly because it […]
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The Last Words on the Last Days
The Internet has become predictably excited about the claim made by Harold Camping that the world will end today (a story we first mentioned two months ago). There are a couple of blog posts that I think are worth highlighting because of the way in which they analyse the whole issue of ‘the last days’ […]
I could quite get into this “round-up of the week’s best posts” thing. It is certainly easier than coming up with something creative myself. Here are a few more blog posts that say things that I wish I had said, but which say them better than I would have done. To me, Three Cups of […]
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Some Random Good Stuff
I have come across a few fascinating theology pieces this week, which I want to draw your attention to. I can’t actually remember who pointed me to some of them, so apologies for the lack of referrals. The Jubilee Centre have published an excellent piece on eschatology and politics. The summary of the article reads: […]