Prayer can penetrate anywhere. Long before we enter the valleys of Nepal prayer can be doing a concrete work in laying the foundations for the future kingdom. . . . When we have prepared the way with the Spirit of God in prayer, he will answer those very prayers in permitting us to occupy Nepal. [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2010
The kingdom comes to Nepal
6 February, 2010 – 8:28 PM
John B shares some great news out of Nepal. Until recently Nepal was the world’s only Hindu kingdom. The mighty Himalayas and the fact that Nepal was a closed land until the middle of the twentieth century enticed many, but from 1881 to 1925 only 153 Europeans are known to have visited Nepal and none [...]
Structuring for movements
4 February, 2010 – 4:10 PM
Max writes, From your knowledge of the Bible, church and mission history – do you see structures as being significant in launching, growing and sustaining movements. If you are aquainted with Dr Ralph Winters “Two Structures of God’s Redemptive Mission” which he terms Modality and Sodality can you comment on them both from an historical [...]
Exponential 2010
3 February, 2010 – 7:20 PM
I’ll be at Exponential 2010. If you’d like to connect, from time to time I’ll be hanging out at the CRM booth.
Aussie mainline decline
3 February, 2010 – 8:22 AM
Scott Stephens offers a lament to the lowest common denomination — his own Uniting Church of Australia. Unfortunately the trend goes back even further than Scott realizes.
The unsurprising decline of the mainline
2 February, 2010 – 3:24 PM
The decline of the Protestant mainline in America began over 150 years ago. It has continued ever since, picking up momentum since the 1960s. We don’t really need more evidence, but here it is courtesy of George Barna’s latest report. A generation ago the Protestant landscape of America was dominated by the six major mainline [...]
