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Church: World Observations

Reading the Bible With the Global Church

At some point the video of my lecture at Redcliffe College will be available online. In the meantime, here is a brief thought to be going on with: when we read the Bible with the Global Church, we are also getting a glimpse of the Christianity of the future. Despite all of the sound and […]

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Observations

I Know What is the Meaning of the Cross

Being a disciple of Jesus can be a risky business. Shahbaz Bhatti was minorities minister in Pakistan and motivated by Christian conviction he worked to defend the rights of the marginalised in his country. He knew that this was a dangerous calling, but he kept to it. Of whom the world was not worthy…

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Church: World

The World Isolated

I was struck by a quote from Ugley Vicar (who seems to be a handsome enough chap, from his photos) today. Talking about the way that Anglicans in the UK view the worldwide Anglican communion, he said: The Anglican Communion is, to most of them, what Europe used to be to most Englishmen. When the […]

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Mission

Models of Partnership

Recently, I had the embarassing experience of asking someone to prepare a talk for an event which I subsequently had to cancel. Thankfully, the person concerned, Simon Cozens, took it all in good part and even recycled his talk as a blog post. The least I can do, is to point you to Simon’s post, […]

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Church: UK Church: World Mission

The Elephant Not in The Room

The Evangelical Alliance have recently carried out a piece of research into the beliefs and habits of Evangelical Christians in the UK. You can read the first results online here or download them as a pdf. It isn’t easy to discern how this initial report reflects the further tranches which will be released later, so […]

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Church: World Mission

Everywhere to Everywhere

This month’s Mustard Seed Association, Seed Sampler is on global mission and contains a number of fascinating articles: The January 2011 MSA Seed Sampler is out. The future of missions is global! Not global in the sense of the old bastions of Christian power and missionary efforts from the Western Church, but rather global in […]

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Africa Church: UK Church: World

A Friday Potpourri

I’ve never been sure why a rotten pot should be so exciting, but I suppose potpourri doesn’t sound so bad! I’ve come across some interesting stories today and thought I’d lump them all together into an amorphous group, rather than make several blog posts. The Global Church: This fascinating piece gives an overview of some […]

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Church: World

Holistic Mission and Cape Town 2010

Vinoth Ramachandra has just posted an excellent article on holistic mission, which also points out some issues with the Lausanne 3 Congress in Cape Town. The Church as the disciple-community of Jesus is called in the Great Commission to obey and teach others “to obey everything that I have taught you”. This is pretty comprehensive! […]

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Church: World Observations

Should the West Be Sending Missionaries? History

This is the first of what is planned to be a three part mini-series. Before any of my colleagues get upset, I do believe that the West should continue to send out missionaries to the rest of the world, but asking hard questions is a good way of making us face up to some issues […]

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Bible Translation Church: UK Church: World

The Bible In Today’s Society

This is the sermon that I preached at Christ Church Flackwell Heath on Sunday October 31. There are  a couple of videos in the middle of the sermon which probably won’t work very well on the MP3. There is also a segment where I ask people to come forward and share their expriences of hearing […]