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Challenges for Mission in the Future

I believe that reaching the new unreached in Europe will be best done by Christians from the majority world

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Local Churches and God’s Movement: Elements of a Strategy

What does a strategy for involvement in God’s movement look like and why would you want one anyway?

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Missionary Priorities

Huge numbers of people are becoming believers, but even more people are having babies, so the number of Christians as a percentage of the world population is static or even falling.

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When Paul Got It Wrong

When faced with the choices of going to Spain to reach the unreached or going to Jerusalem to serve the poor Christians there, Paul chose Jerusalem. According to a number of modern writers on mission, Paul got his priorities all wrong!

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Ignoring the Unreached

I follow a lot of people involved in world mission, many of whom regularly talk about the needs of the unreached around the world and I follow a lot of other Christians – mainly British church leaders – who hardly ever (if ever) mention the needs of global unreached people groups. 

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Mission Agency Futures: Mission Stuff

Local churches may not have the finance or the all-powerful publicity machine that the agencies can bring to bear, but they must not be treated as passive actors who should just stand around and watch while the experts from overseas get on and do their stuff. 

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Some Thoughts on Studying for a PhD

Some thoughts on my doctoral studies including one or two interesting (controversial?) conclusions and a few personal revelations.

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Mission in the News

Some thoughts and further information about John Chau and his mission to the Sentinelese and a good story about Bible translation.

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The British and the Unreached

The moral of the story seems to be that if you are interested in reaching people who haven’t heard about Jesus, you might do better to get in touch with one of the “old fashioned” mission agencies.

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Church: UK

What About The Unreached

If a church feels that the Lord is guiding them to support mission work in Heckmondwike, no-one from the outside should tell them that they shouldn’t do this because Heckmondwike is “reached”