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Unreached People Groups

I mentioned yesterday that Simon Cozens is someone who is willing to confront issues. In his latest blog post he takes an excellent look at one of the key themes in much modern missionary writing: Unreached People Groups. It’s a hard hitting paper, but one that everyone interested in mission should read. People group theory […]

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Bible and Mission Links 8

Antony Billington’s blog is a great source of information on what other people are saying or writing, but it is only rarely that Antony’s own voice comes to the fore. However, he has just published a nice little piece on the impact of the Bible on British Culture which is well worth a read. Mark […]

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Life in Time and Eternity

Yesterday evening, I had the great pleasure of speaking at the Bangor Worldwide Missionary Convention in Northern Ireland. To be honest, I’ve never been to anything quite like it before; worldwide is a week long event with meetings in the morning and evening all concentrating on the theme of world mission. What is surprising is […]

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Mission

A Guide To Missionary Guest Houses

Sitting here in Northern Togo, I realised that no one has published a definitive guide to Missionary Guest houses and decided that I should cash in on this potentially lucrative market! This follows on from my successful definitive guide to Bible translation terminology. These are the things you can expect to find in any missionary […]

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To Go To Togo

It feels strange, yet oddly familiar being back in West Africa. There are some things which used to be reflexes which I now have to concentrate on. Rinsing the washing up in dilute bleach isn’t a normal part of life in High Wycombe, nor is using filtered water to clean my teeth. But with a […]

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Observations

Willow Creek Leadership Summit;Day Two Notes

I wonder if I’m the only person who found starting the morning with the song “it’s a gift to be simple” accompanied by an amazingly complex a/v presentation was a little ironic. Tough Callings It is easy to believe that if we do all the stuff that the books say then everything will succeed. But […]

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Observations

Willow Creek Leadership Summit Day 1 Notes

This is a huge event, it is hard to capture the size of the auditorium, and the event is being broadcast to a couple of hundred other sites. It will eventually invoke 150,000 leaders in over 80 countries. This summit is unashamedly Christian but open to learning from people across the spectrum. It is about […]

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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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Controversies

Thoughts on Paradigms

One of the most striking things about the early church is the way in which they (eventually) were willing to try new things and to break out of the strait-jacket of Christianity’s Jewish roots. In an earlier post, today, I commented on the furore that has been created by the decision of the CEB to […]

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Mission

Great Commission Round Up

Over the past few weeks, I’ve done a series of posts on the great Commission. This is simply a list of links to those posts and some others on a similar theme. Finishing the Task: Great Commission 1 The Manner of Mission: Great Commission 2 What did Jesus Say? Great Comission 3 Geography and Jesus: […]