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It’s Not About Us

We in the West need to realise that we are in the minority in the global church and that Christians around the world are getting on with their lives without worrying what is happening in Oxford, or Grand Rapids.

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Accepting, Communicating or Dominating?

How language communities interact and some thoughts of what churches need to do.

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Churches Learning from Agencies

I’m often quite critical of mission agencies, but (for the most part) they take the business of supporting and caring for their people very seriously. Churches and church leaders could learn from them.

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World Mission and the Local Church

In this episode of In:Dependence, Adrian Reynolds (FIEC Head of National Ministries) is joined by Eddie Arthur (Wycliffe Bible Translators) to discuss world mission and how church leaders can think about and develop world mission well in the life of the church.

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Are all Evangelicals Evangelicals

The church around the globe (and, increasingly, the church in the West) does not fit neatly into the categories that we bring to it.

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African Millenial Christians and Questions of Identity

The future of the world church is bound up with the rising generation of Christians in Africa. We need to understand what is going on.

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Do Not Use

Throwback: Things Home Mission Can Learn from Overseas Mission

This throwback is inspired by a conversation that I recently had with a church leader in the UK. This is the first of a series of posts on the subject from 2017. You can find links to the other posts at the foot of the document, or you can download the whole series as a […]

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Intercultural Ministry is Complex

Some thoughts based on a well intentioned, but badly thought through gesture.

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Christian Demographics 2022

A snapshot of the church across the world today and a glimpse of where it is going.

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The Problem With Our Theology?

The problem is that our churchmanship and our theology developed a at a time when mission was not a central concern.