Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Rebecca Manley Pippert and Bishop Benjamin A. Kwashi as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “A Fresh Approach to Witness forRead more…
THESE BEGGARS AGAIN!
We first heard this expression from a Missionary (?) (He is Nigerian and raises support in Nigeria to minster especially in Nigeria) staff of Great Commission Movement. According to him, Bitrus Ghani who shared the thought, feels that most “supporters”Read more…
Media Messages Matter: Christ, Truth and the Media
Editor’s Note: This Cape Town 2010 Advance Paper has been written by Lars Dahle as an overview of the topic to be discussed at the Multiplex session on “Media Messages Matter: On Global Technologies, Glocal* Trends and Gospel Truth”. Responses toRead more…
South to North; language, power, gospel.
That many African people (and those from the global ‘south’ in general) love to use European languages should not surprise us in the slightest. Many do not see the problems with (say) using English in their countries, but rather manyRead more…
Good news?
So, I assume if we’re in this conversation we’re mostly in agreement regarding the maladies of the Prosperity un-Gospel. Can we share experiences of antidotes, examples of Christian groups, churches, movements, that are countering the trend, living in ways thatRead more…
There is No God: Understanding the “Unbeliever”
Can you recall a time when you didn’t believe in Jesus? Not a rogue moment of doubt or a season when work/family/life took precedence over service to others or attendance at church. I mean a time when the notion ofRead more…
Technologies Are Not Just Tools
A Response to Al Erisman’s ‘The Face-to-Face Gospel and the Death of Distance’ Technology is a label for all kinds of things humans create. Some are material, such as machines of various sorts. Others are procedural, such as organizational approaches.Read more…
The Face-To-Face Gospel And The Death Of Distance
Missionaries study the culture of the people they serve. Al Erisman says we need to look deliberately at the digital culture, in which we now live. Interview by Tim Stafford [Introduction] Technology is swiftly and unpredictably changing our lives andRead more…
UK Lausanne Meeting – Gospel, Church and World
I spent last Friday in London at a meeting of many of those going to Cape Town 2010: The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization held in Cape Town, South Africa, 16-25 October 2010. In the afternoon we were privilegedRead more…
I prefer comfort over lordship.
I just finished the book, The Heavenly Man. What struck me about it was Brother Yun’s use of dates. I found myself paralleling his life (not in what I suffered, but what I was going through at the time ofRead more…