Missions
Maintenance Or Mission?
Weekly Message from Bishop Will Willimon 10.23.2006 MAINTENANCE OR MISSION? From http://www.crossmarks.com – an article by Harold Percy, “Good News People.” I very much liked its contrast between “maintenance” and “mission” as well as its stress on “effectiveness” being a mutually shared matter between pastor and congregation. The only thing I would add is that […]
The Missional Leader
The Missional Leader | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough The emphasis of this book is in the title — it is on the “missional” leader. The adjective that will be familiar to most people, of course, is “missionary”. What, then, does “missional” signify? The authors explain that mission is “not a program or project […]
Credible Witness: Mission in Australia
Credible Witness: Companions, prophets, hosts & other Australian mission models By Darren Cronshaw (Melbourne: UNOH Publications, 2006) Australians long for expressions of faith that are genuine and practical. This book explores how clues for credible witness can be gleaned from Australian historical images – the Aborigine, convict, bushman, gold digger, Anzac ‘digger’ and migrant. A […]
Emerging/missional divide
From a net-friend: ‘Wow, I only recently learned that there was an “emerging church” (as opposed to the Church emerging from wherever it has been hiding), and now I discover that there is an “Emerging/Missional” divide! The problem with Western theology is that it’s so hard to keep up. By the time you discover what […]
The Local Church in a Global Era
The Local Church in a Global Era | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS), at the invitation of World Vision (WV), co-hosted a conference in the autumn of 1998 “to aid the publication of materials intended to help redefine missions for the next century”. WV and PTS jointly invited some one […]
Biblical principles for sharing the Gospel (1/3)
CROSSFLAME Acknowledgments This manual was written, and originally published, on the mission field under extremely adverse conditions. Between unwanted attention from the police, severe health problems and the time constraints of leading a team of missionaries, it is a miracle that this manual was completed. It was not completed alone. Many thanks go to Frontiers’ […]
Biblical principles for sharing the Gospel (2/3)
Previous Because we talk about the Kingdom so little, many are confused about what the Kingdom of God is. Dr. George Ladd, Professor of Biblical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary, reminds us, “When the Word refers to God’s Kingdom, it always refers to His reign, His rule, His sovereignty, and not to the realm in […]
Biblical principles for sharing the Gospel (3/3)
Previous Ma’arra was a city near Antioch. When the Christians had laid siege to the city of Ma’arra its inhabitants were no match for the European warriors. The leaders of the city offered to surrender in exchange for their lives. “The Christian commander promised to spare the lives of the inhabitants if they would stop […]
Introducing God Course
From a pastor-friend: Introducing God Hi All Just wondering if any of you have been using the “Introducing God” series and if so, what are your thoughts? ~~~ I haven’t used it but am impressed with their website (except for the misspellings on it!) – http://www.introducinggod.org/comparison.php It has a slightly different starting-point to Alpha, assuming […]
Approaching Islam: confrontation or reconciliation
Thank-you Rowland Croucher for a very thorough and detailed book review/summary 18.8.06, of Dr Durie’s book on Islam “Revelation: do we worship the same God; Jesus. Holy Spirit, God, in Christianity & Islam” ( http://jmm.org.au/articles/17938.htm ) I was very appreciative of the effort made. But there are surely few issues more urgent than this one? […]
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