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Church: World Observations

Churches and Mission Agencies

The 20 Schemes blog raised an interesting issue this week: We have seen a sad development in modern evangelicalism.  Churches believe that they exist to make disciples of their own local community.  Churches send money to a missionary society in order for that society to make disciples of other nations.  We have cut off the […]

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Bible & Mission

Theology of Mission or Missionary Theology

At the same time, the traditional Western approach to theological education has been widely rejected elsewhere in the world. By now we are all familiar with the critiques developed in South America, but elsewhere around the globe voices are raised against an approach to theology that is perceived to be too academic, too abstract and […]

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Moo On Bible Translation

The Proclamation Trust blog has four nice, concise points about Bible translation taken from a talk by Douglas Moo (you can find the whole presentation here): it is important to read theology out of the text rather than the temptation to read it into the text all translations have to think about meaning – you […]

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Bible & Mission

The Future of Theology?

First, let us recall that within the last century there has been a massive southward shift of the centre of gravity of the Christian world, so that the representative Christianlands now appear to be in Latin America,Sub-Saharan Africa, and othe rparts of the southern continents.This means that Third World theology is now likely to be the representative Christian […]

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Church: UK

My New Year’s Wish for the Church in the UK

You know what? I’d love to see the church in the UK hitting the headlines because it is talking about Jesus too much, this year. All to often, it seems to me, the church is in the news because it is talking about itself, very often in ways that are indistinguishable from the wider culture. […]

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Observations

Blog of The Year

For the last five years, around this time, I have announced my favourite blog of the year. This prestigious award is rigorously judged according to strict criteria. They must post regularly They must be consistently interesting I must like them more than other blogs for whatever subjective reasons I choose. There are a number of […]

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Observations Reviews

Books of The Year

What with one thing and another, I’ve not read as many books as usual this year and I’ve reviewed even fewer. But for the record; here is a list of book reviews that have appeared on Kouyanet in 2012. The Future of the Global Church The Soul Survivor Youth Bible Global Theology in Evangelical Perspective […]

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Bible Translation in History

Bible Translation: Its Place in History

If it were necessary to find a single turning point symbolizing the movement of Christianity from the North to the South, a good candidate might be the founding of Wycliffe Bible Translators… … The translation of the Scriptures, in turn, may be the most enduringly significant feature of the global expansion of Christianity that has been taking […]

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Reviews

Belonging to the World Church

I recently had the pleasure of preaching at Portswood Church in Southampton for their world mission Sunday. We looked at a passage to which I seem to be returning with great regularity, these days; Acts 8. For some reason, our podcast player doesn’t seem to be working, but you can download the talk here. http://www.portswood.org/downloads/Sermons/2012/11%20-%20November/18%20AM/18th%20November%202012.mp3Podcast: […]

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Church: UK Church: World Mission Observations

Where Angels Fear to Tread

For the last ten days or so, the media in the UK have given a huge amount of attention to the decision of the Church of England not to legislate in favour of allowing women to become bishops and I thought that it was probably time for me to say a few words, too. My […]