Taking one of Jesus’ amazingly creative parables and turning it into an alliterated, three-point, logical sermon has to be the ultimate in literate processing.
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Things Home Mission Can Learn: Stories
Category: Church: UK
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Things Home Mission Can Learn: Speak
To a newcomer, a phrase such as “we will now enter into a time of worship” conveys far more background information about the person using it than it does about what is going to happen next in the service.
Looking down on a class of people, and holding them in contempt for their reading habits, has far more to do with liberal, middle-class prejudice than it has to do with Christianity.
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Things Home Mission Can Learn: Serve
If you just preach the word but don’t do the deeds then you are not credible, if you just do the deeds without preaching the word then you are not audible.
When Paul spoke to a Jewish audience, he started off with the story of the Jewish nation, when speaking to Greeks, he worked from inscriptions on statues and Greek poetry.
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Things Home Mission Can Learn: Study
How well do we understand the culture that surrounds us?
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Things Home Mission Can Learn: Go!
When push comes to shove, there is one basic difference between long-term, cross-cultural missionaries and the average church member.
I believe that the skills and experience of cross-cultural missionaries are crucial to the future of the church in the UK: the start of a blog series.
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Is A Shoebox Enough?
How should churches respond to the needs of the world at Christmastime?
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It’s All About Us
It is our job to be Jesus’ witnesses, to tell people about him all over the world. It’s not complicated. When the church itself, and not Jesus becomes the story, we have quite simply lost the plot.