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Bible & Mission

The Product and Guide of Mission: Engagement

This is the third post in a short series exploring the relationship between the Bible and Christian mission. The other posts are here (1, 2). What exactly is the end point of Christian mission? What are we seeking to achieve through mission work? The easy, and slightly more spiritual sounding answer is the ‘glory of […]

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Computing/Internet Mission

Media and Mission

An interesting 15 minute presentation from my mate, Phil. Learning, growing and sharing: The use of Media in Mission View more webinars from Phil Prior.

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Observations

Partners? Why Not Friends?

Partner and partnership are ‘buzz’ words in the mission community at the moment. I’ve lost count of how many seminars and workshops that I’ve attended (or even led) on partnership issues. Now, don’t get me wrong; I believe that partnership is incredibly important. John 17:23 tells us that the unity of Christians bears strong witness […]

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Reviews

Worshipping Jesus

I’ve just finished Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence by James Dunn. To be honest, it’s not a book that would have been top of my reading list, but I was in a bookshop (this one) and I had some book tokens… Well, you know how it is! There are a […]

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Observations

Mission Partnerships: The Harsher Reality

In my last post, I commented on Krish Kandiah’s blog post; Mission Partnerships the Harsh Reality. This is an excellent and thought provoking paper which is also included in the Lausanne Global Conversation and I recommend that you read it.  However, on reading what he wrote, I found myself thinking that Krish had missed out […]

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Translation and Mission

Bible Translation: A Model for Partnership

In a recent post, Krish Kandiah has raised some interesting questions about the difficulties involved in mission partnerships. Krish closes his post with the following challenge: So I pose a challenge: who can you partner with today? I would love to begin a viral trail of stories of small and significant partnerships that instead of […]

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Church: World Reviews

Kingdom Without Borders

Kingdom Without Borders: The Untold Story of Global Christianity by Mirian Adeney is an absolute cracking book and one that everyone interested in the development of the Church around the world must read. It isn’t a book about statistics, graphs and projections; it is simply a book of stories. Sometimes books of this sort can […]

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Quotes

John MBiti on Bible Translation

Ben has a long post based on notes that he took while listening to Kenyan theologian and author John MBitit. There is lots of good stuff in here, but I’ll just give one key quote. Now, Bible translation have landed the Scriptures into more and more local languages. This enables the people to hear the […]

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Do Not Use

Listen to the Patois Bible

I have commented on the translation of the Bible into Jamaican Patois on a number of occasions (here, here and here, for example).  The project is making good progress and the Gospel of Luke has been published and is now available in an audio version. The project was discussed on the prestigious Radio 4 Today […]

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Observations

The Wedding at Cana

Let’s just think about what happened for a moment. Jesus was at a wedding. This wasn’t a genteel, refined high-society event; it was a rowdy, boisterous fun-filled celebration. People were enjoying themselves so much that they finished off all of the booze long before the party was over. As for Jesus, he was at the […]