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Books I Have Read: Advancing Models of Mission

Paul doesn’t seem concerned with establishing the church in each ethnolinguistic people group, even though he and his team were intent on crossing cultural barriers. Rather, Paul was concerned with planting churches in cities that were composed of all people in the city.

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The Bible Is Not A Product

ranslation is the responsibility of the church; and that primarily means the local church, the believers who will use the translation for the foreseeable future.

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Local Churches and God’s Movement: Elements of a Strategy

What does a strategy for involvement in God’s movement look like and why would you want one anyway?

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Mission Is… Interlude – A Metaphor

It is not just the actual content of the Bible that can inform our view of mission, but the fact that the Bible exists at all and its nature as a combined divine and human product speaks of how God is at work in our world.

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Mission Is Theocentric II

Throughout Scripture, God drives things on, but in the process he places a lot of responsibility into the hands of men and women. This is, perhaps, the key point that we have to grasp if we want to understand mission.

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Do Not Use

Throwback: Mission Balancing the Bible

If we wish to be truly Biblical in our approach to mission, we will need to do the hard work of reading and meditating on Scripture in our context and then evaluating new approaches and methodologies in the light of that meditation. There is no simple checkbox form that allows us to evaluate whether something is Biblical or not.

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Throwback: The Product and Guide of Mission

He gave the Bible to a fallen world as a way of communicating himself and his nature to mankind and in a similar way, he has sent the church out into the world to bear witness to his reconciling work in Jesus. Because mission and the Bible are both expressions of God reaching out to the world, it is not surprising that they are closely intertwined.

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Acts and Mission: Matthias

From its earliest days, the church based its praxis on the Bible and saw witnessing to Jesus as its purpose. Thoughts from the second half of Acts 1.

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Bible & Mission

The Great Commission is All About the Church

Though Jesus was actually sending a community into the world, his words in the Great Commission often have been used as the rationale by which churches send individuals into cross-cultural settings.

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Books I Have Read: Reading the Bible Missionally

Reading the Bible Missionally has some excellent articles and students of the Bible and Mission will find much that is helpful here. However, I’m not convinced that the book hangs together as a whole and it is of little interest to the more general reader.