five marks

Mission and the Election 3: Loving Service

by Eddie 17.04.2010

To respond to human need by loving service. Christians and Christian organisations have a long history of providing caring services to people in the UK. Even in a country as rich as ours, there are still many people who are in need of a helping hand in one way or another. The Christian response is [...]

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Mission and the Election 2: Nurturing Believers

by Eddie 16.04.2010

This is the second in a series which looks at the UK election through the grid of the Five Marks of Mission. To teach, baptise and nurture new believers. I don’t see anything that any of the parties are planning to do which will seriously impinge on the ability of the church to teach, baptise [...]

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Mission and the Election 1: Proclamation

by Eddie 15.04.2010

There has been a fair bit of chatter about the upcoming election in the UK in the Christian blogsphere. Mouse has helpfully summarised who is saying what. I thought I would try and take a slightly different tack by examining the election through the grid of Christian mission. Of course, that then opens up a [...]

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Mission Exists Because Praise Does

by Eddie 31.12.2008

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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Mission in the 21st Century: Transforming unjust structures of Society

by Eddie 19.09.2008

This is the next in a delayed series of posts examining the five marks of mission, inspired by Mission in the 21st Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Mission by Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross. Today we reach the fourth mark: to transform the unjust structures of society. It is good to start this short [...]

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Five Marks of Mission Posters

by Eddie 09.09.2008

If you have been following my series on the Five Marks of Mission, you might be interested in the posters which you can download from here. They are simple, but rather nice. I’ll have one on my wall before the end of the day. You can download the poster in jpg, pdf or MS Word [...]

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Mission in the 21st Century 4: Loving Service

by Eddie 31.08.2008

This is the fourth in my (rather slow moving) series looking at the five marks of mission; inspired by Mission in the 21st Century edited by Cathy Ross and Andrew Walls. To Respond to Human Need by Loving Service Let’s start by grabbing a bit of attention: the Great Commission is not Biblical. Let me [...]

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Mission in the 21st Century 3: Discipleship

by Eddie 18.08.2008

This is the third in my series looking at the five marks of mission as discussed in Mission in the 21st Century by Cathy Ross and Andrew Walls. The second mark of mission is teaching, baptising and nurturing new believers, or making disciples. People respond to the Christian message for all sorts of reasons, but [...]

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Blogs and Justice

by Eddie 01.08.2008

Shortly in my series on the five marks of mission, I will come to the issue of transforming unjust structures of society. However, without waiting for that point, I’d just like to draw your attention to an issue that is absorbing much of British Christian blogdom at the moment. Essentially, Dave Walker (cartoonist and friend [...]

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Mission in the Twenty First Century: 2. Proclamation

by Eddie 31.07.2008

This is the second in a series of posts examining the Five marks of mission; based loosely on Mission in the Twenty-First Century: Exploring the Five Marks of Global Mission edited by Andrew Walls and Cathy Ross. Proclaiming the Good News of the Kingdom. According to Mark’s Gospel, Jesus started his ministry by proclaiming ‘The [...]

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Mission in the Twenty First Century: 1. Introduction

by Eddie 21.07.2008

This is the first of what risks turning into a longish series of posts exploring the nature of Christian mission. This isn’t the first time I’ve done this sort of thing and I’ll link to a number of my other musings at the end of this post. At the heart of the question I want [...]

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