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Global Mission and Cultural Transformation - William Carey
Global Mission and Cultural Transformation - William Carey

It is not accurate to merely mention 18th/19th Century missionary William Carey as an inspiration for global mission. His legacy, and the breadth of his involvement and influence in Indian…

Church - Do You Know What it Means?
Church - Do You Know What it Means?

Is your understanding of church primarily associated with buildings, programs, worship music, missions, pastors, fund-raising, corporate structure, scheduling, and age-level ministries? If so, then a review of the biblical perspective…

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Church Failure
Church Failure

Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell wrote an article, Walking away from church, for the LA Times (10/17/2010) summarizing their recent book, American Grace. It seems that churches might…

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Mixed Blessings: Healthy and Unhealthy Organisations in Global Mission
Mixed Blessings: Healthy and Unhealthy Organisations in Global Mission

 Virtue does not have to be so painful, if it is sensibly organized. Charles Handy, Understanding Voluntary Organizations How healthy is your church, mission, NGO, etc? Here are five brief…

How does our salary affect our theology?
How does our salary affect our theology?

It is my observation that the more "successful" you become in anything, the more you have to lose, and the more you start to justify your position, often ignoring the…

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Formation pour atteindre les peuples non atteints
Formation pour atteindre les peuples non atteints

QUI SOMMES-NOUS? L’Institut Universitaire d’Études Interculturelles dénommé  Holistic Mission Institute of the Nations (HOMIN), est une initiative de Light For the Nations (LFTN) également connu sous le nom de Luz…

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Utoxica instead of Utopia?
Utoxica instead of Utopia?

See Website article Does anyone else feel we live in a toxic world or is it just me because I’m so sensitive? I hope these are helpful thoughts. I’d appreciate…

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The Shock of the Old - The Bible: How the Ancient and the Other Speaks in today’s culture
The Shock of the Old - The Bible: How the Ancient and the Other Speaks in today’s culture

First given at an Evangelical Alliance/BibleFresh initiative in March 2010, this is a talk which seeks to embrace the culturally alien nature of the Bible rather than avoid or marginalise…

Preaching to Impress ... or to save
Preaching to Impress ... or to save

It seems to me that the cultural context of ancient Corinth significantly resembles many aspects of the west - and in particular London, where I work. This is a talk,…

Can Evangelical - Postevangelical interfaith dialog bear fruit?
Can Evangelical - Postevangelical interfaith dialog bear fruit?

To many in the evangelical fold, certain expressions of contemporary faith, be they "missional", "post-modern", "emergent" or "post-evangelical", may appear irrelevant at best and downright heretical at worst. But what…

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A response to Rediscovering the Gospel of Reconciliation
A response to Rediscovering the Gospel of Reconciliation

As part of my preparation for attending Cape Town 2010 I’ve been reading the advance papers.  The latest is Rediscovering the Gospel of Reconciliation by Antoine Rutayisire.  Below are a…

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Evangelism and the culture in and around you
Evangelism and the culture in and around you

Over the years I have worked with several groups of young people, who were about to step out in evangelism in the Netherlands (and other countries), mainly to be in…

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Women & Evangelism
Women & Evangelism

Women are asking questions ….seeking answers…  Who am I?     What am I worth? Do I have any significance?’ Arpana’ [of OM] reaches out to Christian women  to understand  their identity in Christ,…

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Christ, Creation Stewardship and Missions
Christ, Creation Stewardship and Missions

This paper was presented at a Missions Forum at the Overseas Ministries Study Center in December 2009.  Craig Sorley is Director of Care of Creation Kenya, sister organization of Care…

Prosperity Gospel through Adopted African Eyes
Prosperity Gospel through Adopted African Eyes

This morning I received an email from a good friend in the US who asked me two or three questions about the way the prosperity gospel is presented and perceived…

Should we allow culture to inform our values?
Should we allow culture to inform our values?

There is a common feeling among Christians that modern culture is, as Obi Wan Kenobi said, a “wretched hive of scum and villainy.” These people see society as immoral (or…

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Jésus dans la culture contemporaine
Jésus dans la culture contemporaine

Qui est Jésus aujourd’hui ? Comment nos contemporains perçoivent-ils Jésus dans nos sociétés post-modernes ? Un article...

Outward-facing, life-affirming and well-informed: only the best will serve our cities
Outward-facing, life-affirming and well-informed: only the best will serve our cities

The strategic power and potential of cities was clearly demonstrated by Paul’s strategy of focusing on urban evangelism in his journey from to Athens, to Corinth, to Ephesus, to Rome.…

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Prayer for New Paradigms
Prayer for New Paradigms

We find ourselves today in need of new paradigms for responding to globalisation. From time to time I glimpse something of God’s big picture, see the grand view, catch the…

"Love your [ethnic] neighbor as yourself"

If we seek to apply the biblical axiom ’love your neighbor as yourself’ to ethnic communities, then we can phrase it ’love your ethnic neighbor as yourself’. This fundamental idea…

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