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Observations

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.

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Do Not Use

Throwback: Can a Church Have Too Many Missionaries?

If I wanted to go there, I wouldn’t have started from here.

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Observations

So You Want To Be A Missionary: Training

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.

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Observations

No, We Shouldn’t Send Missionaries… Unless

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.

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Church: World

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.

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Christian Life

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.

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Do Not Use

Bible and Mission Links 31

Links to some good stuff that you may have missed.

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Mission

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.

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Observations

What Do Words Mean?

Sometimes we seem to be disagreeing, when in reality we are just using words in different ways.

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Observations

My Story Is Only A Part of a Much Bigger One

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.