mission

Churches and Mission Agencies Part 2

by Eddie 19.08.2010

If you are involved in church leadership, particularly in the UK, Wycliffe Bible Translators would be very grateful for 5-10 minutes of your time to fill in a survey on the relationships between churches and mission agencies. If you want to know my thoughts you can see them here.

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Cross-Cultural Living

by Eddie 13.08.2010
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The BBC is making a big thing about a researcher who is going off to live in the Arctic to study a disappearing Inuit language and culture. Now don’t get me wrong, I think this is fantastic. I’m all in favour of people doing language and culture research. The thing I don’t understand is why [...]

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Darkness and Light

by Eddie 08.08.2010
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The British press have, rightly, been full of reports about the death of 10 Aid workers, including one British doctor, in Afghanistan over the weekend. The ten who died worked for a Christian Charity, the International Assistance Mission. IAM is a humanitarian organisation which has worked inside Afghanistan for forty years providing healthcare to people [...]

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Churches and Mission Agencies

by Eddie 07.08.2010
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One of the questions which concerns me in my ‘day job’ is how should churches and mission agencies work together. This is obviously extremely important to an organisation such as Wycliffe Bible Translators which can only exist as long as churches continue to provide resources for the agency. There is no way that a blog [...]

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Missio Dei: The Mission of God

by Eddie 30.07.2010

The Trinitarian focus of missio Dei, combined with the focus on the Kingdom of God rescues the church from simply becoming an agent for social and economic change on the one hand or fundamentalism on the other and provides a framework for mission in which the false dichotomy between social action and evangelism in mission [...]

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Asian Mission Consultation

by Eddie 01.07.2010

I’ve just returned home after a 24 hour consultation on Emerging Mission Movements in Asia, which was held at Redcliffe College. I have had very little experience of working in Asia; just a few trips to conferences in Thailand and one short visit to Bangladesh. Given my position as a bit of an outsider to [...]

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You Can’t be an Evangelist if You Don’t Like the World Cup

by Eddie 25.06.2010

Let me admit straight away, that I’m not a great football fan; I’ll also admit that the title to this post is just a little hyperbolic! Football as a Conversation Starter Now, I may not be a great football fan, but there are many, many people who love the game and who like to talk [...]

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Media and Mission

by Eddie 28.05.2010

An interesting 15 minute presentation from my mate, Phil. Learning, growing and sharing: The use of Media in Mission View more webinars from Phil Prior.

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God Doesn’t Need You!

by Eddie 18.05.2010

I love this cartoon from ASBO Jesus. It captures a profound truth that lies behind all of our dealings with God. He did not create us because he was somehow incomplete and needed humanity. He created us because he is a loving God and wanted to love and bless us. Likewise, he does not need [...]

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Ascension and Mission

by Eddie 13.05.2010

After saying this, he was taken up into a cloud while they were watching, and they could no longer see him. As they strained to see him rising into heaven, two white-robed men suddenly stood among them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why are you standing here staring into heaven? Jesus has been taken from [...]

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Toxic Mission

by Eddie 03.05.2010

Onesimus has come up with an extremely controversial post which should be read by anyone involved in Christian mission from the West to the majority world. Here are some extracts to give you an idea of what he is saying, but you really do need to read the whole post: During these nearly four decades [...]

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Global Mission or Local Mission

by Eddie 19.04.2010

Some interesting thoughts from Joining in With the Spirit by Kirsteen Kim (p.9) Christians have born witness to Jesus Christ since the very beginnings of the early Church at Pentecost, and understand that they are ‘sent’ into the world, as Jesus himself was sent in the power of the Spirit from the Father (John 20:21-2). [...]

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