Your mission committee, agency leadership team or board should read this book together. It is very good.
Tag: Acts
Gathered and Scattered
If the gates of hell won’t stand against the church, it’s because the church is storming the gates, not the other way around.
On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
How language communities interact and some thoughts of what churches need to do.
Life, the universe and … more glory
The word ‘life’ appears almost 280 times in a typical English translation of the New Testament. (I’m using the 2011 edition of the NIV 2011.) It’s such an important theme in the Bible, but what do we really understand by it? In John 10.10 Jesus says: I have come that they (the sheep) may have life, and have […]
Are Mission Agencies Biblical?
Try as I might, I can’t discern any pattern to the missionary structures in Acts, nor to the way in which they relate to churches (beyond the fact that planting churches seems to have been the goal of apostolic missionary activity).
Casting Lots and Vanishing Apostles
The fact that we don’t hear about Matthias is not the point. What is important is that a whole new set of characters, Paul, Timothy, Silas, Priscilla, Acquilla, Barnabas, Apollos and so on appear through the book of Acts and take the story forward.
Our traditional view of mission is part of the way in which the local church should engage with God’s work around the world, but it is not the whole story.
Throwback: The Ends of The Earth
Where are the ends of the earth? It all depends on where you start from!
This Is Who We Are
From its outset the church has been ethnically diverse and this will be displayed in all its glory when people from every tribe, tongue and nation gather round the throne of the Lamb.