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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).

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Do Not Use

Throwback: Paul Versus Apollos – the Publicity Battle

With Luke writing positive stories about Paul’s work, Apollos decided that he needed to engage a publicity firm to get his message across (no he didn’t).

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A Biblical Example of Mission for Today?

In other words, Apollos was a converted African Jew, who did further Bible training in Asia and who ministered in Europe. His background and formation were not just international, they were inter-continental. Not only that but Apollos came from outside of the centre of the contemporary mission movement of the time – he wasn’t one of Paul’s companions from Ephesus, he came from the margins.

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A Model Missionary For Today

Some final thoughts from Acts: why we need to take note of Apollos.