We tend to think of missionaries as people who go and make disciples, but first and foremost they need to be disciples themselves.
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If I wanted to go there, I wouldn’t have started from here.
Missionaries have to do everything that people doing an equivalent job in their home country have to do – but in a new language and culture.
The Church in the global south needs the church in the UK, and we in the UK need our brothers and sisters in the rest of the world. Our problem, is that we are slow to realise our need.
The End of an Era
Western Christianity was not, as many believed, the guardian of a pure gospel, providing a universal church with a culture-free benchmark of orthodoxy.
Cruciform Mission
If you believe that you have a call to be a missionary, you have to ask yourself whether or not you are willing to deny yourself and to take up your cross daily. If not, you’d better stay at home. But be aware, the same standard is demanded of disciples wherever they find themselves.
Bible and Mission Links 31
Links to some good stuff that you may have missed.
Pro-Am Mission
It is almost certain that the church has spread more through the apparently random movement of populations than it has through the intentional work of “professional” missionaries.
What Do Words Mean?
Sometimes we seem to be disagreeing, when in reality we are just using words in different ways.
God has been at work through history; from Genesis to Revelation. Anything we do for him is, at best, a small part in that much bigger story.