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Church: World

Books I Have Read: Turning the Tables on Mission

What could have just been an excellent book of stories, turns into an extended reflection on the nature and importance of multicultural churches.

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Church: World

What Does Christianity Look Like?

The Christian church is an amazingly diverse body; both in time and in space. The way people worship, the way they dress and the questions they bring when they read Scripture all vary.

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Church: World

Old Habits Die Hard

The main problem is that Western missiologists are stuck with definitions, models, and instruments of measurement associated with Western operations and ill-suited for evaluation of new non-Western initiatives.

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Church: World

It’s Not About The Superstars

The main way that the Gospel is spreading around the world is through the quiet, but determined witness of Christians whose names we have never heard of (and would struggle to pronounce).

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Church: World

Who Are We To Judge?

What gives those of us who live in the West the right to dictate what does or does not “count” as “real” allegiance to Christ in very different cultures where God is at work?

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Church: World

The Young Church Rises

This is the first step towards a re-orientation in global Christianity away from the domination by the liberal, intellectual, critical and relativistic Northern establishment and the fresh expression of a young, orthodox, vibrant and dynamic Southern Christianity.

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Church: World

ALL of the World

There is a Christian witness here; it’s you and me! But there are parts of the world where there are no virtually no believers. We cannot turn our backs on these places.

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Church: UK Church: World

Church Partnership Guidelines

If you are in church leadership in the UK, or if you have responsibility for a church’s mission work, you MUST get hold of this code. It is an invaluable guide to helping you walk through the complexities of cross cultural partnerships. There is nothing earth-shattering here, most of it is just common sense. But the problem with common sense, is that it isn’t very common.

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Church: World

Books I Have Read: The Mission of God

on the one hand, the source of mission is the Church – the existing people of God, the Pentecost community – which continues Christ’s economy in a visible, sacramental and ecclesial way; on the other hand, the goal of mission is the Church as the sacrament of the kingdom, as the incorporation of creation into communion with God.

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Church: World

Death To Wrong Notions!

The whole church exists for mission, and whether mission agency or church leaders, we must orient churches in that direction.