Missions
Apologetics wisdom
Think: First, NOBODY ever changed religions because his (or her) own has been sufficiently insulted and lied about. Second, nothing gets interest piqued in something quite so fast as having someone start chicken-littling about it. Third, I don’t pay for volunteer labor. It cheapens the work.
World Missions
Oscar Muriu from Kenya spoke to an Intervarsity meeting in December 2007, in St Loius. Some of his points: • There were nine million Christians in Africa in 1900, over 360 million today. • There are more Anglicans in Nigeria than in all of North America and Europe. • Kenya has more people with a […]
Dialoguing with JW’s
How to and NOT to Dialogue with JW’s by David Reed HOW CAN YOU HELP THEM FIND A WAY OUT? by David Reed UNTRAINED Christians usually want to take the direct approach with Jehovah’s Witnesses. They want to tell them that they are in a cult and need to get saved. To demonstrate this to […]
Exiles: Living Missionally In A Post-christian Culture
Michael Frost Peabody: Hendrickson, 2006 Reviewed by Darren Cronshaw, originally appeared in Zadok Perspectives, No. 96 (Spring). Exiles is Michael Frost’s latest and most substantial book, in which he addresses the urgency of the missional challenge in the post-Christendom Western world. Christendom, he explains, is no longer a reality in Western culture but continues to […]
The Case for Interfaith Dialogue
Date December 17, 2007 Is it arrogant to claim that any one religion has an exclusive connection to God? Does discussing faith matters with followers of other religions mean that we think it doesn’t matter which spiritual path you take? What is the role of interfaith dialogue in our spiritual walk? I grew up in […]
Radio Interview: Parliament of the World’s Religions
Here’s an interview with Rodney Olsen from Sonshine FM, Western Australia. I was asked to represent the ‘evangelical’ view about dialogue with people of other faiths. http://mpegmedia.sonshinefm.ws/feeds/SUN120607_1324.mp3 Rowland Croucher December 6th, 2007
The Church as Witness
I have been reading Karl Barth’s first volume of the Church Dogmatics. I have yet to read a better introduction to a theological work than his first few paragraphs in CD I.1. His words serenade you and seduce into the wonderful joy of theology! In talking about the church’s confession of God he says that, […]
What is a Missional Church?
One important note before you continue: On this website, the term “church” refers to the people of God; the called out ones; those formed for his dwelling and bearers of his presence in the world. It doesn’t refer to a building, denomination or physical location. So when you read “church,” think of yourself and your […]
Love the Neighbour, Love the Neighbourhood
Simon Carey Holt There is no doubt the business of loving our neighbours lies at the heart of the Christian faith. Jesus’ affirmation of the commitments to love God and neighbour as the essence of spirituality underlines the fact: “Do these two things and you will live!” Jesus said. The challenge in our Australian context-the […]
Faith Communities in a Civil Society – Christian Perspectives (Archbishop Rowan Williams)
10 SEPTEMBER 2007 Archbishop of Canterbury: Sept 11th – lessons from history for faith and civil society Faith Communities in a Civil Society – Christian Perspectives On September 11th, 1906, Mohandas Gandhi addressed a meeting of some 3,000 people in the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg to protest against the introduction of registration and fingerprinting for […]
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