Archives for August 2009
What fascinates me is that whether explicitly as in the Evangelical position where you intentionally place the bulk of your workers in the most receptive areas, or implicitly in the Pentecostal view in that you go where the Spirit is working, what you end up with is a kind of blank spot for […]
Periodically I read articles that advocate missions as a project with a short term approach. Interestingly, nobody arrived at those conclusions by an examination of the biblical text or of mission history. It is something that has been created by the intersection of technological innovation bringing growing affluence, ease of travel, and inexpensive […]
Not long ago I finished working through Lesslie Newbiggin’s The Gospel in a Pluralist Society. He had a sentence that jumped off the page in one of his chapters dealing with the logic of mission.
He begins by noting that there has been a long tradition of seeing the mission of the Church as primarily obedience […]