There is no dichotomy between church and mission because the church that Jesus points to is a missionary church.
Tag: agencies
Investing in the spiritual health of missionaries (and church workers) needs to be a high priority. We cannot simply assume that everything will be alright.
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Throwback: Money for Missionaries
A brief overview of the main ways in which mission workers are funded. This is something that all church people should know about.
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Two Way Traffic
The huge changes that we have seen in the church around the world over the past fifty years are already resulting in changes to the way mission is thought about and practiced. The question for the church in the West is whether we can keep up with what is happening.
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Missionary Accountability
We tend to think of missionaries as people who go and make disciples, but first and foremost they need to be disciples themselves.
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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).
Some initial findings in my research into short-term mission trips.
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Climate Change and Mission
Mission agencies need to think through the impact of climate change on their work.
In this interview, Steve Schirmer shares about the way God is at work in the world today and the challenges that this poses for traditional mission work.
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Books I Have Read: Ours to Explore
Ours to Explore: Privilege, Power, and the Paradox of Voluntourism investigates voluntourism’s past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon from the eighteenth century through today.