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Observations

Lessons from A Pandemic

If all the church has learnt during this time of COVID-19 is how to live-stream sermons, worship songs, religious rites and requests for tithes, we have lost the Kairos moment.

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Observations

Church Planting?

The bottom line, is that I do think that we need to plant more churches. However, before we do that, I think we need to rethink how our existing churches engage with our society and culture.

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Observations

We’ve Changed, But Is It Enough?

Society is asking different questions of the church today than it did forty years ago. Our job is to provide answers to those questions, not to tell people that they are asking the wrong ones.

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Observations

To Lent or Not To Lent

If I were a pioneer missionary reaching out to the UK, I’m pretty sure that I would identify Lent as one of those times when British culture has a natural contact point with the gospel and I would seek to make deeper connections.

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Observations

Books I Have Read: Mission Shaped Church…

the best way to engage a multicultural context effectively in mission is through a multicultural missionary community. Otherwise Christianity becomes a dividing force that socializes people into segregated congregations when they live multiculturally at work, at school, and practically everywhere else.

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Church: UK

Neither Incarnational nor Seeker-Sensitive Be

Christians worshipping together and reverently celebrating the Lord’s supper is an important witness to the nature and mystery of God.

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Reviews

Books I Have Read: Transcending Mission

A longish review of the most thought provoking book that I’ve read in a long time!

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Short-Term Mission

Two Missions?

A simplified way of classifying mission from the point of view of the local church congregation.

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Observations

Just Pray: We Got it Wrong.

Three reasons why much Christian reaction to the “banning” of that video is misplaced.

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Mission

An Introduction to Missional Hermeneutics

Three excellent videos that are well worth watching.