Missions
Review: Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways
Review: Alan Hirsch, ‘The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church’. Michigan: Brazos Press, 2006. Ivan Illich was asked what he thought was the most radical way to change society; was it through violent revolution or gradual reform? He gave a careful answer. Neither. Rather, he suggested that if one wanted to change society, then one […]
Korean Christianity
How Korea embraced Christianity Former missionaries look back at a nation that’s now the No. 2 source of Christian mission workers. By Jane Lampman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor While Christianity’s explosive growth has swept through much of the Southern Hemisphere – particularly across Africa – another dramatic story has unfolded in […]
Muslims and Christmas
*RECORD NUMBER OF EX-MUSLIMS CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS THIS YEAR Spiritual revolution underway in Middle East. * *By Joel C. Rosenberg * More Muslims converted to faith in Jesus Christ over the past decade than at any other time in human history. A spiritual revolution is underway throughout North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia. As […]
Contextualization in the New Testament
Contextualization in the New Testament: Patterns for Theology and Mission, Dean Flemming, IVP, Downers Grove, Illinois, 2005, 344pp. Introduction. Since Christians are caught ‘between the desire to communicate the Word of God in culturally relevant ways and the fear of giving away too much of the gospel in the process’, this book ‘is an attempt […]
Cross-cultural Mission
Sunday, December 10, 2006 Field testing Pastor Rick Warren’s peace plan Missionaries raise spirits and expectations, but can their methods cross cultures? By GWENDOLYN DRISCOLL The Orange County Register RUHUHA, Rwanda – “The first thing to understand is it’s not about me,” says Mark Broussard, a Saddleback Church missionary from Capistrano Beach. “I’m not the […]
Reaching People For Christ Or For The Culture?
REACHING PEOPLE FOR CHRIST OR FOR THE CULTURE? Jesus commands us to go and to reach out to all the world in his name. Yet sometimes, in evangelistically reaching out, we fall face down into the culture. In offering people the Christian faith, we offer them nothing much more than they could get anywhere else […]
Mission And The World
——————————————————————————– Mission-Shaped Church St Mark’s Review No 200 (2006 – 1) The latest edition of St Mark’s Review contains a series of excellent articles which will be of assistance to those reflecting on mission whether in ‘traditional’ or ‘emerging’ forms of the church. Here is a 1,000 report on the seven articles. To find information […]
Computer TIP: Hanging Indents in
From a friend: Computer TIP Hanging Indents in MS Word What if you want to create a hanging indent (in which the paragraph’s first line is up against the left margin and all remaining lines in the paragraph are indented)? Here are some suggestions: Move your cursor to any point within the paragraph you want […]
Charity Justice and Mission
CAN WE MAKE POVERTY HISTORY? The Micah Challenge and Make Poverty History (MPH) campaigns are gaining momentum in the lead up to the G20 summit this month (November 2006), where representatives from 20 nations, World Bank and International Monetary Fund, will meet in Melbourne to discuss a range of global economic issues. Since last year […]
Missionaries and Modesty
The first paragraph in chapter 1, “Shocks and Surprises”, in “Customs and Cultures: Anthropology for Christian Missions”, by Eugene A. Nida, originally published by Harper in 1958. “But we are not going to have our wives dress like prostitutes,” protested an elder in the Ngbaka church in northern Congo, as he replied to the suggestion […]
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