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I’m Not An Idiot or A Heretic

To be honest, it’s more than a little galling to be told that I don’t take the Bible seriously by people who wouldn’t know a hapax legomenon if it bit them on the nose.

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Books I Have Read: Constructing Mission History

Mission history shouldn’t all be about missions. This book provides a nuanced and thoughtful approach to the way in which the church has grown through history.

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Books I Have Read: God Shines Forth

Yet God’s glory is not only the fuel of mission in the sense of being its grand objective. God’s glory–his own naturally overspilling life, showcased in his Son-is mission’s rationale and its motor. out into the world to In whatever sense mission is about our going
make God known, it is only ever our being caught up in the already gushing tide of blessing that flows from the heart of the Father in the Son.

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Messing Around With ChatGPT

In which an artificial intelligence system gives some answers to questions about mission.

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Books I Have Read: The New Testament’s Vision of Mission

Your mission committee, agency leadership team or board should read this book together. It is very good.

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Reflections on the Death of a Monarch

In addition, to aid healing and allow the Church in the West to enjoy the gifts of diversity from the African Christians, the Western Church must do more to challenge the anomaly of White superiority and racial discrimination.

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Caring For Your Missionaries

How should local churches care for those they send out on world mission?

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World Mission in the 21st Century

How has world mission changed in the past 50 years, and what effect should those changes have on the local church?

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Mission Is The Problem

The word “mission” combines things which may not need to be combined and it creates dichotomies which don’t need to exist.

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Are We Dumbing Down?

Are we sending out missionaries who are adequately prepared for the work that they are doing?