Missions
How Chinese Christians Evaluate Western Christianity
For security purposes we have been asked to keep the source of this article confidential Interviewer (I) : Let’s move on to another important question. How do the Chinese Christian’s evaluate western Christianity? Chinese House Leader (CHCL): We feel the church in the West is playing games. We are troubled by the frivolity in many […]
Being in Mission with Christ (Tom Bandy)
Being in Mission with Christ We have found Tom Bandy to be a straight talker and an inspired church observer. Bandy has some wonderful ideas on the demanding changes that the church and its pastors are facing these days. Below are just two excerpts from Mission Mover, Beyond Education for Church Leadership, by Thomas C. […]
Unreached People Groups
WORLD LEADERS CONSIDER HOW TO REACH REMAINING UNREACHED PEOPLES GROUPS For five days over 350 mission leaders from every continent came together at ‘Ethne 06’ to celebrate “Great Commission” progress, assess status and accelerate efforts to reach the least-reached peoples of the world. The meeting was a continuation of numerous global consultations on unreached peoples […]
God’s Missionary People
God’s Missionary People | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough. Charles van Engen is a leading missiologist, and this book is in its eighth printing. In keeping with the subtitle of his book: ¯ ¿ ½Rethinking the Purpose of the Local Church ¯ ¿ ½, Van Engen briefly sets ecclesiology and missiology in historical and contemporary perspective, then introduces ¯ ¿ ½a […]
Mission-shaped Church
I strongly support the ‘emerging church’ movement. There is clearly something fresh and important happening as people think adventurously about being the church in ways that are missional to the core. But its language is sometimes confusing. What are some of its buzz words and what are their strengths and limitations? Some labels only tell […]
Indian tribe sends a missionary to tackle spiritual void in Wales
By Rosie Murray-West (Filed: 06/03/2006) Indian tribes who were converted to Christianity by missionaries from Wales are now returning to evangelise the Welsh because they believe that the country is in a state of religious decline. The Diocese of Mizoram, in the north-east of India, has already sent one missionary to south Wales. It is […]
Penguins Marching
PENGUINS MARCHING…BACK TO CHURCH March 1, 2006 — NEW YORK—A small blue book is causing a rather large stir in the San Diego area this winter. Penguins, Pain and the Whole Shebang: Why I Do the Things I Do, by God (as told to John Shore), is a short book in which God speaks, mostly […]
Tom Bandy on Mission
Church development guru, Tom Bandy, has been most helpful to us in North Alabama as we think our way into the future. Tom Bandy has made a number of helpful visits to the North Alabama Conference in the past few years. I’m sure that those visits are part of why we enjoyed such overwhelming support […]
Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Mormons?
Sightings 1/26/06 Why Is It So Hard to Talk about Mormons? — Seth Perry It seems nearly impossible for those in the public discourse to talk evenly about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Commentators are given to hyperbole (the growth of Mormonism is “one of the great events in the history of […]
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society
The Gospel in a Pluralist Society | Book Review Reviewed by Thomas Scarborough Lesslie Newbigin was (and is, through his writings) a celebrated missiologist. This book continues to be in print after sixteen years, which further bears testimony to the drawing power of his ideas. Superficially, the book gives one the impression of being an […]
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