We have no right to send people on missions, especially in cross-cultural or multicultural contexts, without giving them an understanding of demonology!
Tag: Church: World
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Challenges for Mission in the Future
I believe that reaching the new unreached in Europe will be best done by Christians from the majority world
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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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Throwback: The Other Side of the Coin
We all have our weaknesses, but we in the West are more needy than we are willing to admit. If our posture towards the world church is continually one of giving; passing on to them our theological traditions and culture, we will never be in a position to learn.
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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.
Our call is to humbly serve our brothers and sisters, not simply to tell them what it is they need to know based on our own experience and history.
Church history books tell us about the way that the faith moved from the Middle East, to Europe and then out to the rest of the world through the efforts of Western missionaries. It’s a great story – but it didn’t happen like that.
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Remembering Andrew Walls
Author David Smith talks about the life, work and impact of his teacher and friend, Andrew Walls.
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Andrew Walls
Thoughts inspired by perhaps the most important Christian that you haven’t heard of.
Four steps that a church needs to follow when getting involved in what God is doing worldwide. Some of the suggestions might surprise you.