How will we remind the church that it is more dangerous to be cautious than to be daring?
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What Mission Theology Should Do!
Category: Observations
Thoughts and ideas that you might find interesting or stimulating.
My observation is that mission theologians and academics speak a different language and have different concerns to mission practitioners.
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Floods and the Truth
If I can’t trust you when you are talking about events in New Orleans in 2005, or Houston in 2017, why should I believe what you say about events in Palestine in AD 30?
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SBU35: The St Bega’s Ultra
In which I follow in the footsteps of a legendary Irish Princess; though I suspect she wasn’t wearing trail running shoes.
These days, you cannot throw stones between Easter and September for fear of hitting a marquee full of Christians in a field somewhere.
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It’s Not About Ignorance
It’s not so much that people don’t want to engage in serious thought about issues of faith, it’s just that they earnestly believe that there is nothing to engage with in the first place.
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It’s Not About Individual Salvation
it is doubtful whether the New Testament provides a single example of an individual convert, a “saved individual,” left to plough his lonely furrow without family or congregation.
At a time when more Bible translation is going on that ever before and the diversity of the Church is being celebrated, it would be a shame if we drifted into a hooked-on, soft-rock worship conformity.
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Three Unmentionable Things
Three areas that we don’t like to think about, but which need to be part of any church’s thinking about world mission.
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Race Matters in Mission
If you can’t bring yourself to strike up a conversation with your Sikh neighbour in your home town, then you probably shouldn’t consider travelling to the ends of the earth on a mission trip.