I’ve been away for the last two weeks. The trip gave me the opportunity to bump into a whole range of people engaged or thinking about overseas missions. They are all good people with a heart to serve God. They all hope their ministry will result in new disciples and new churches. Some of their [...]
Tag Archives: Missions
The global spread of Islam: Threat or opportunity?
3 February, 2011 – 7:11 PM
The world’s Muslim population is expected to increase by about 35% in the next 20 years, rising from 1.6 billion in 2010 to 2.2 billion by 2030,. The world’s Muslim population will grow twice as fast as the non-Muslim population in the next 20 years, when Muslims are expected to make up more than a [...]
How Missionaries Lost Their Chariots of Fire
2 December, 2010 – 11:42 PM
Western Christianity has been on a century long journey to redefine what “mission” is. Earlier this year, Brad Greenberg reflected in an article for the WSJ on the changing nature of Christian mission since Edinburgh 1910. Here are a few edited points and quotes from the article. I’ll have more to say later. The 1910 [...]
Structuring for movements
5 February, 2010 – 5:10 AM
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 [...]
7 Lessons from the Student Volunteer Movement
21 December, 2009 – 9:04 PM
The last in a series of posts on the greatest student missionary movement in history. We’ve seen is rise and its fall. Here are a few thoughts on the enduring lessons for us today. 1. History is made by people who don’t know any better. The break throughs in the renewal and expansion of the [...]
Al vs Ary
3 April, 2009 – 2:27 AM
The Church as a missionary or missional movement is called to carry on the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. … The Church, in its very essence, is a missionary or apostolic movement with a mandate to take the good news of Jesus to world.
The shifting (demographic) centre of Christianity AD30-2100
25 March, 2009 – 12:26 PM
Here’s an interesting way to track the changing composition of the Christian faith over the last 2,000 years. Expect the trend to continue. The full report.
Paul the missionary
11 February, 2009 – 4:00 PM
I’m a big fan of Eckhart Schnabel’s work on early Christian mission. He’s just released a new volume entitled “Paul the Missionary: Realities, Strategies and Methods” Schnabel recognizes his debt to Roland Allen’s classic written a century ago, “Missionary Methods: St Paul’s or Ours” There are some well written reviews of Schnabel’s work on Amazon. [...]
The greatest gift of all
20 December, 2008 – 5:19 AM
God is most glorified in your when you are most satisfied with Him. John Piper John Piper preaches on the call to world missions—powerful and confronting. He legitimately takes aim at the “prosperity gospel”. But wealth brings spiritual anemia to all of us who live in the developed world. The threat to fulfilling the Great [...]
