We can bemoan the loss of Christian values all we like, but this is where we are today and things don’t look like changing. For a growing proportion of our society, we are the baddies.
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Are We The Baddies?
Tag: Mission and Culture
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Church Planting?
The bottom line, is that I do think that we need to plant more churches. However, before we do that, I think we need to rethink how our existing churches engage with our society and culture.
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I Am Not Exceptional
If I have learned one lesson from history it is that far from being the pinnacle of church history, my tradition is just another branch in the long story of the faith.
Whatever one might say about how difficult the year 2020 has been, lots of good books have been published. I’ve already suggested that two different books are the best book that I will read all year and in any other year, Here are Your Gods by Chris Wright would be a contender for that title, […]
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Success Without Relevance
The fact that an agency is able to tell a number of success stories and can raise support from the church in the UK does not necessarily mean that what it is doing on the field is relevant or appropriate.
How can Christians reach jaded young people with the gospel?
Jesus Christ’s calling to follow is not a comfortable Sunday morning gathering. It’s a radically different lifestyle that should permeate our actions and conversations. If each Christian rather than just supporting missions, lives their life as a mission, people are going to start taking notice.
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To Lent or Not To Lent
If I were a pioneer missionary reaching out to the UK, I’m pretty sure that I would identify Lent as one of those times when British culture has a natural contact point with the gospel and I would seek to make deeper connections.
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Books I Have Read: The 3D Gospel
The gospel is richer and more all-encompassing than our social frameworks, but most of us are not able to think outside of the mind-set that we grew up with. This book will help you do just that.
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A New Society
The church’s new society doesn’t come about by people trying to be nice to each other (though that’s not a bad idea) but by people admitting their need of Jesus and by people from different backgrounds seeing their primary allegiance as being to him.
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God’s Best Gift: A Playstation
As a child, I never understood how Jesus was a gift. I didn’t get to see him or play with him and I certainly never got to see him work any miracles.