How would you feel if your church used this approach? Click on the picture to enlarge it. HT Mork. To see more details on the survey mentioned in the picture go here.
Categories
Month: November 2008
Highland Quechuan people of Peru say that reading the Bible in Spanish is like eating soup with a fork, you get a taste of what is there, but you never get enough to live off or thrive.
Categories
The Challenge of Dependency
It is so easy for Westerners to think that the problems in the developing world can be answered by pouring money into it. This is true in the political sphere but also in the mission world. It is reletively easy to give money to projects and such like, but the results are not always as […]
Categories
How Can They Believe That?
According to the Daily Telegraph (so it must be true!) more people in Britain believe in aliens, ghosts and UFOs than believe in God (story here). Now it is very easy to mock this and to wonder how people can believe such crazy stuff. However, before doing so, Christians should remember that the virgin birth, […]
Categories
More on Reading the Bible Missionally
Brian has just updated his list of posts on a reading the Bible from a missional standpoint. This really is an excellent resource and I strongly reccomend you to take a good look at the things he has posted. You can find the list here. While on the subject, don’t forget to look at Michael […]
Categories
The Dilema of Christian Mission
This short video is well worth watching – I’ll try and get the whole DVD series when it is released and review it here. HT KrishK
Categories
Ooops, Does It Really Say That?
When we received our copy of the Kouya New Testament, it took me ages before I dared open it, fearing that I would find a major typo on the first page I looked at. (I didn’t, by the way). Translating the BIble is a huge task and there are so many things that you have […]
Categories
Tweet Creed Meme
Memes seem to be like busses, you don’t see one for ages, then two come along at once. Lingamish has tagged me with another meme asking me to produce a basic Christian creed in 140 characters or less. I don’t have time to really explore this at the moment, but I’ve been pondering the relationship […]
Categories
Memorable Restaurants
Paul has tagged me with a meme asking me to name my five most memorable restaurant experiences, so here goes: The first was at the Melting Pot in Sunderland in 1976. My brother Phil took our family out for dinner to celebrate my 18th birthday. Eating out wasn’t really a part of my childhood, so […]
Categories
What on Earth is God Doing?
This looks like it might be worth attending: >The Bible promises that the earth would be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea: yet we are living in an age in which church attendance seems to be falling dramatically, and respect for the Christian faith and […]