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Observations

A song from Madagascar

This afternoon I heard that this song had been uploaded onto YouTube today. It was written by Edit, who helps with admin on the project I’m involved with in Madagascar. He is the guy in the hat, singing and playing guitar. The song is called ‘Jesosy raiky avao’ (‘Only Jesus’). I really like the song […]

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Church: UK Church: World Mission

What Mission Speakers Don’t Understand About Mission

In which I suggest three ways in which many mission speakers do not always reflect the reality of mission today.

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Musing On Mission Themes

Who Speaks About Mission?

I’m sorry, but making occasional trips overseas doesn’t qualify you to speak about the nature of mission any more than sitting in a pew gives me the background to talk about church leadership.

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Short-Term Mission

Who is Serving Whom: A Dilemma for Short Term Mission?

There are some serious issues associated with short-term mission trips, but this doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do them, it means me need to address the questions and do them better!

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Bible Translation

The Five-Percent

The “world languages” of Europe determine to a great extent how theology is done and which questions are posed. With ninety-five percent of the world’s population having access to at least a portion of Scripture translated in a language they understand the five-percent minority remains significantly neglected. This five percent includes over three hundred million […]

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Observations

Peter, Jesus and the Apostles’ Creed

You know how it is when two familiar things are put next to each other and as a result you see both of them in a new light. This happened to me on Sunday, when one of the readings was Peter’s sermon to Cornelius in Acts 10 which was swiftly followed by saying the Apostles’ […]

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Observations

No! I don’t Want to Receive Prayer!

Prayer is important and it’s probably worth avoiding sloppy language that expresses things that really aren’t true.

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Mission

Mission and Holy Week

Some vague thoughts about the time of year.

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Observations

There Is No Such Thing as A Free Blog

It is almost ten years since I wrote the first post on Kouya.net. It started off as a way of sharing our work with Wycliffe Bible Translators, but it has evolved into one of the few regular blogs which discusses cutting edge mission thinking. Since the early days we have published over 2,000 posts, that’s […]

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Mission

Sending, Mission, The Trinity and Us

Theologically speaking, mission begins with the begetting of the Son and the procession of the Spirit from the Father. It starts with the Trinitarian life of God before it ever involves the creation, let alone the human part of that creation. We have discovered a doctrine of mission and so far, humanity has not even come into the picture.