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Throwback: God is Not a Missionary God

Rather than saying God is a missionary God and therefore we should do mission, we might be better saying that God is holy and that we should be holy. This doesn’t mean that we don’t do mission – but it shapes the way we go about it.

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Observations

Things Mission Agencies Shouldn’t Say #3

Yes, we can play our role as God makes a difference, we can give money that God uses to change the world – but let’s give glory to where glory is due!

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The Mission of God: Implications

This is a follow up to my earlier video which briefly explored the biblical basis of mission. This one explores the way in which seeing mission as primarily God’s activity should have impact in the way in which practice and talk about mission. https://www.kouya.net/upload/MissioDeiPodcast2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 35:29 — 46.8MB) | […]

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The Mission of God: Background

Mission is often defined in terms of what people do. This video shows that this approach is inadequate and, instead, frames mission in terms of the activities of the Triune God throughout Scripture.

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Mission Is: Fivefold

In the previous post in this series, I included a quote from Hannes Wiher, who reviewed the way in which different scholars see mission starting at different points in the Biblical narrative. I then wrote the following: For my part, I would argue that mission starts at the creation narrative in the book of Genesis. […]

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Why Not Teach Them All English?

Why bother translating the Bible into other languages; why not just teach people English?

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Short-Term Mission

More Mission?

Recently, and not for the first time, I surprised – shocked, even – some colleagues with an opinion. Someone had suggested that we could all agree that we wanted to see more people from the UK involved in mission, but I was not convinced. Cue incomprehension. Just about every mission agency in the country is […]

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Throwback: Mission Terminology

It starts off tongue in cheek, but goes somewhere else.

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Books I Have Read: Challenging Western Christians and Their Neighbours

In short, believing men and women are called to tell the world in which they live that God is loving and merciful and that He gives deliverance from sin and death to all who in faith surrender to Christ.

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Books I Have Read: A Hybrid World

A quick look at an interesting book.