great-commission

When Will Bible Translation Be Finished?

by Eddie 29.07.2010

When I visit churches and talk to people about Bible translation, I’m often asked when the last translation will be completed. On the surface, this is a simple question; but like most simple questions, it has a complex answer! The simple answer, is that Wycliffe has a vision that the last translation project will have [...]

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Podcast: The Great Commission

by Eddie 01.03.2010

This is the second of my sermons for Highfield Church’s Mission in Action Sunday.

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A Couple of Excellent Blog Posts

by Eddie 04.02.2010

Today has been full of meetings and travel and I suspect that I won’t have the energy or inspiration to write anything myself. In the absence of that, I’d like to point you to two excellent posts, which are sort of related to each other. The first is by Mark who writes on The Greater [...]

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Why I believe in language development

by Eddie 19.01.2010

It is often pointed out that Wycliffe Bible Translators is not an accurate name for our organisation, because we do far more than Bible Translation. We have staff involved in language survey, literacy, and a host of other roles which fall under the broad heading of language development. However, it is sometimes suggested that language [...]

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Salvation to the Ends of the Earth

by Eddie 02.01.2010

This is a short overview of Salvation to the ends of the earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission (New Studies in Biblical Theology) by Kostenberger and O’Brien. The book is in the IVP Academic series (the ones with the annoying silver covers) and justifies its academic title by having lots and lots of footnotes. That being [...]

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Reasons to be Missional

by Eddie 18.02.2009

It is not unusual to hear the last few verses of Matthew’s Gospel referred to as the Jesus’ Marching Orders for the Church. Frost and Hirsch have a different take on these verses. I think they’ve got it right! Many well-intentioned church leaders have simplistically presented the words of Jesus “Go therefore and make disciples [...]

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Some Good Resources

by Eddie 26.01.2009

The resources page at the l’Abri UK website has some excellent looking resources available. I was particularly impressed with Ranald McCaulay’s paper entitled ‘The Great Commissions‘. Failure properly to relate the Gospel Commission of the New Testament to the Commission of Genesis (the Creation Mandate) lies behind much of Evangelicalism’s current weaknesses and internal conflicts. [...]

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A Whole Bible for Holistic Mission

by Eddie 02.01.2009

… where do we find any justification for imagining that by rightly under taking what the New Testament commands us to do, we are absolved from doing what the Old Testament commands? Why should we imagine that doing evangelism in obedience to the New Testament excludes doing justice in obedience to the Old? Why have [...]

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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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Commission Impossible

by Eddie 30.12.2008

A while ago, I wrote a piece suggesting that the Great Commission in Matthew 28 was perhaps not the best call to world mission for our generation (you can find it here).  Today, I’ve been musing a little on the concept that the Great Commission is something which can be accomplished. Just to keep us [...]

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Communications Conference

by Eddie 06.11.2008

This is a rather relaxed conference, which is rather nice. Yesterday afternoon we sat outside in the shade rather than in a conference room. The view from where we were sitting was stunning. Today we had to sit indoors because we were having a video conference with colleagues in the US. We used Skype for [...]

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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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