All over the Western world, ministers are being trained and future theological scholars are being identified and taken to doctoral level and beyond without any idea of what the church of today, in which they are called to serve, is really like.
Our call is to humbly serve our brothers and sisters, not simply to tell them what it is they need to know based on our own experience and history.
Paul doesn’t seem concerned with establishing the church in each ethnolinguistic people group, even though he and his team were intent on crossing cultural barriers. Rather, Paul was concerned with planting churches in cities that were composed of all people in the city.
Author David Smith talks about the life, work and impact of his teacher and friend, Andrew Walls.
Thoughts inspired by perhaps the most important Christian that you haven’t heard of.
If you are training pastors or preachers in Africa; you have to read this.
ranslation is the responsibility of the church; and that primarily means the local church, the believers who will use the translation for the foreseeable future.
theology – as a passionate engagement with the God who became incarnate in Jesus Christ, who seeks to be the giver of life for all people of all cultures and the head of local communities of the church across a diverse world – deserves a broader definition that will allow oral expressions of theology to find their place.
The smugness of the majority has meant that the African church has largely remained silent in the face of overwhelming human rights abuses suffered by minorities and by socially disrespected groups such as women, widows, children, orphans, the poor and the weak.
The problem is that mission is a modern term which we read back into the Bible. Any decision about the Biblical basis of mission will involve an aspect of choice or interpretation.