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Who Should Mission Agencies Listen To?

In today’s context, agency boards need to be open to a wide range of voices so that they can ensure that they have the information that they need for long term planning.

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Throwback: Integral Mission Isn’t

I would argue that in general use, the term integral mission is now used to describe various forms of social action, but that the overt proclamation of the Gospel has more or less dropped off the agenda. In practical terms, holistic mission isn’t holistic and integral mission isn’t integrated; a huge chunk of what mission is all about is simply not included.

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It’s Not Just About Jesus

We can read the OT as both pointing to Jesus and as an ethical guide; the one does not have to negate the other.

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Flashback: The Incarnation and Listening

One of the by-products of the long sojourn of the gospel in Western culture is the false assumption that all potential questions have been canvassed and answered and that there are fundamentally no new questions to be answered. Thus, Christian theology becomes static within certain fixed categories.

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From ‘Ubuntu’ to Koinōnia

This is a video that anyone who is interested in mission or church work should make time to watch.

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We Are All Exceptional

It is far too easy for churches in the UK to subconsciously set themselves to transmit with regard to the rest of the world. We see ourselves as teachers, trainers and contributors, but we rarely think in terms of receiving.

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The End of Mission As We Know It?

Christianity has always spread organically through movements of people. The “professional” mission movement has been a catalyst to the spread of the faith, but it has only ever been a part of a much larger whole.

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Being Completely There

A commitment to taking the gospel to the ends of the earth will involve you in sacrifice. Yes, there will be good bits, but much of it will be hard.

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Books I Have Read: Challenging Western Christians and Their Neighbours

In short, believing men and women are called to tell the world in which they live that God is loving and merciful and that He gives deliverance from sin and death to all who in faith surrender to Christ.

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Covid-19 and a Missionary Call

If your natural reaction is to look to the future when things will get better, then you are less likely to thrive in mission work than someone who just settles down and makes the best of a changed situation.