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Mission

Mission Exists Because Praise Does

Most people who are involved in mission work from an Evangelical perspective know the famous phrase from John Piper: Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over and the countless millions […]

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Africa

Tukuleur: Africa

I saw this on TV tonight and loved it. The words say so much about why I love Africa and its people. Sorry, but I can’t provide a translation if you don’t follow the French.

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Musing On Mission Themes

Commission Impossible

A while ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that the Great Commission in Matthew 28 was perhaps not the best call to world mission for our generation (you can find it here).  Today, I’ve been musing a little on the concept that the Great Commission is something which can be accomplished. Just to keep us […]

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Observations

Be Careful What You Say

The news that British missionary couple David and Fiona Fulton have been imprisoned for a year of hard labour will come as a shock to many people (story here) . The Fultons and their young daughter have all my sympathy and pray that the Lord would keep them safe through what is undoubtedly a horrific […]

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Reviews

The New Testament and The People of God.

I’ve got a few books earmarked for reading over my Christmas break, of which, this is probably the biggest and most difficult. It is the first (and slimmest) volume of a trilogy on Christian Origins. I’m not sure when I’ll get round to the other two volumes but I will – next Christmas perhaps? I’m […]

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Mission

Mission and the Early Church

Why then did early Christianity spread? Because early Christians believed that what they had found to be true was true for the whole world. The impetus to mission sprang from the very heart of early Christian conviction. If we know anything about early Christian praxis, at a non- or sub-literary level, it is that the […]

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Bible Translation

The Best Job in the World

Mark Naylor explains why being involved in Bible translation is the best job in the world while dealing with the worst sin in the world… Having recently come back from Pakistan after another month of translation, let me share with you one of the gems that I picked up along the way.  One of the […]

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Do Not Use

A Sunday Afternoon Walk

Christmas tends to be a reflective time. After what has been a very hectic year, I’ve found myeslf musing on what our move to High Wycombe from Southampton. To be honest, I’ve been so busy that I’ve hardly noticed where I’m living for the last few months, but witha time of quiet the change has […]

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Bible Translation

Augustine on Bible Translation

And hence it happened that even Holy Scripture, which brings a remedy for the terrible diseases of the human will, being at first set forth in one language, by means of which it could at the fit season be disseminated through the whole world, was interpreted into various tongues, and spread far and wide, and […]

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Mission

Mino: Missional in Name Only

If all the talk is all about ‘going’ and no one goes anywhere – you might be Mino. If the majority of your money, your leaders time and your buildings are still used to meet your needs – you might be Mino. If your idea of church is still just one hour out of your […]