Intellectual Honesty

Intellectual honesty makes more enemies than friends. If you choose to be honest, you must walk alone.

The Changing Paradigm of Missions

We are in the middle of a hugely significant paradigm shift:  missions is transitioning out of the paradigm “from the West to the rest” into a new and not yet fully defined or understood paradigm “from anywhere to everywhere”.  ForRead more…

4 Questions for John Piper

John Piper was interviewed this week about his decision to pre-record his sermons and then show them instead of having a live preacher. Piper explained that because his church had grown so much they now had 3 campuses – spreadRead more…

Understanding the Christ’s way of leading

For a couple of years now, I have been struggling to understand the meaning of true leadership. Whether it is at home, school, work, church, clubs, organisations, politics, everywhere, my conviction is that leadership is taken for granted! Those whoRead more…

La Estrategia de Jesús para Capacitar

La Estrategia de Jesús para Capacitar a Sus Discípulos[1] Jesús llamó a sus discípulos con el propósito de equiparlos para que transformaran el mundo a través de su mensaje de salvación. “Jesús llamó a gente que abandonaran sus obligaciones normalesRead more…

Jesus’ Strategy to Equip His Disciples

Jesus’ Strategy to Equip His Disciples[i] Jesus called the disciples in order that he could equip them to transform the world through His message of salvation. “Jesus was calling people to forsake the normal obligations of family and work inRead more…

Should theology be taught thru nonliterate means?

My last 13 years on the mission field I spent much of my time teaching emerging church leadership that was mostly nonliterate or had low literacy, and those who were literate but had very little formal education. Yet these menRead more…

Authenticity: A Cultural or Biblical Value?

“This lecture was powerful and moving.  But for the following three reasons I do not think it works in Japan for Christian leaders to be open and honest with their followers…” These words were shared by Pastor A.*, a highlyRead more…