What About The Unreached
If a church feels that the Lord is guiding them to support mission work in Heckmondwike, no-one from the outside should tell them that they shouldn't do this because Heckmondwike is "reached"...
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Sending Workers to Marginalised Communities
At every level, our culture is pulling people into an expectation that those who do well will follow a certain sort of career path - which incidentally will pull them towards the bits of the country w...
Where Should Your Mission Budget Go?
The distinction between home missions and foreign missions (or whatever term you want to use) is essentially a false one. Geography isn't a determining factor in God's mission. ...
Paul In One Sentence
The whole of Paul's teaching summed up in one (very long) sentence. Can you do any better?...
What I Tell You, Tell Others, Who Can Tell Others…
Seldom were the "mission-ed" churches taught to grow up to become "mission-ing" churches to join the missionaries. ...
What If Agencies Took The Missio Dei Seriously?
This post raises the important question of what should drive us in our mission; what we find to be practical, or what we believe about God and the way he is at work?...
The Gospel and Power
The church is tempted in every age to identify with secular power, with empire, and usually to call that power divine....
Why I Rarely Listen To Recorded Sermons
I don't listen to recordings of sermons. I mean, even when they are playing, I don't really listen, I do something else as well, and that's a problem. ...
Culture is What You Find In A Petri Dish
Culture isn't just about whether Beethoven is better than Ed Sheeran, it also covers why English people tend to refuse a biscuit to go with their tea until they are asked a second time....
February 2018 Reading
Two good church history books, some indifferent missiology, some awful science fiction and a book about vets in North Yorkshire; February's reading. ...